Great Inspiring Story

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Ray- yours is truly an inspiring story of Perseverance, hard work and

hope. Congratulations!!

I am really happy to see a clear success story from someone we know!

I've read some of your early posts and I see that you've been through

some really difficult times and succeded! I'm not trying to discredit

any other stories but in the case of LFA the mites are in question and

he didn't treat the environment. In my wife's and kids case the success

is limited to their bodies as I still have them at home. In your case

you have sucesfully eliminated them from the environment.

As we all like to hear wining stories and for the benefit of others, do

you think it would be possible to put together a list of the things that

worked for you in a clean post so that it can be included in the files

section? I think it would be a great addition and will help others

tremendously.. We could call it Rays Recipe or Rays tips?? I know you

must be really busy catching up with your family and enjoying the

holidays so maybe in the next couple of weeks when you get some time you

can think about that.

About the conference call to Dr. Staninger, I think it's a great idea.

Maybe SOM could be the moderator since he has already contacted her?

SOM?? Another thing we could do is try to write the questions ahead of

time and make a list so that maybe she can review prior to the

conference call and give a prepared answer and we make sure we don't ask

the same questions twice. I know I would have a ton of questions and I'm

sure others as well, so maybe we can make a list of unanswered questions

(say 1000 questions, just kidding) and she could pick the ones she feels

competent in answering. Just a thought. It would also be great if we

could record the call and place the transcript on the website. I know, I

started daydreaming again.. Anyway there are a lot of things that could

be done so hopefully we'll get enough people interested to prepare a

good call. Great idea.

May God gives us all a great year 2008 full of enlightment, endurance

and emotional strength to sucesfully overcome our battles with mites.

God Bless us all- MM

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> > > > > > > I just recently came across a gold mine of a site

> dedicated to

> > > > > > > parasites. It has anatomy, life cycles, descriptions, and

> > > more.

> > > > > Hope

> > > > > > > everyone can find it useful.

> > > > > > >

> > > > > > > http://parasitology.informatik.uni-

> > > wuerzburg.de/login/frame.php

> > > > > > >

> > > > > > > Psoroptic mange is a serious disease in cattle and sheep,

> > > less

> > > > so

> > > > > in

> > > > > > > horse and goats. The causative mites are species of

> Psoroptes

> > > > and

> > > > > are

> > > > > > > host specific. Mites penetrate the epidermis to suck body

> > > > fluids,

> > > > > and

> > > > > > > cause a local reaction with formation of vesicles. The

> > > exudate

> > > > > from

> > > > > > the

> > > > > > > vesicles coagulates and dries on the skin surface,

> resulting

> > > in

> > > > > the

> > > > > > > formation of a crust or scab of varying thickness. The

> mites

> > > > move

> > > > > to

> > > > > > > the edge of the scab, and the lesion increases in size.

> There

> > > is

> > > > > > marked

> > > > > > > pruritus, and scratching results in alopecia, erosions and

> > > > > > > lichenification. Lesions usually begin in areas thickly

> > > covered

> > > > by

> > > > > > hair

> > > > > > > or wool.

> > > > > > >

> > > > > > > This describes my lesions on my lower arms and etc. Some

> of

> > > them

> > > > > > > enlarged to a size of more than 7 cm long and 5cm wide at

> the

> > > > > worst of

> > > > > > > all this.

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