Getting out there and reading all this new material has turned up some strange and bizarre stories. I just felt I had to add my own weird one after reading Average Joe’s about the bird poop facials. Not for me, thanks but no thanks!

I suffer from allergies pretty badly so I had to go read this article that I ran across. It’s well written and very informative. I even can understand the theory behind why it works. But I must admit that I read it with a kind of fascinated horror. I’ve never had asthma so I am pretty convinced after reading this that I can live with my allergies just fine. I admire the author for going ahead and finding something that works and sticking with it.

But for me that would be a huge problem. The one phobia I have is worms. Any kind of worm and things that look too much like worms like say, millipedes. Caterpillars one at a time don’t qualify, but tent caterpillars do. You can tell I have this well reasoned out over the years! I remember in Science class in middle school when the teacher started talking about human parasites. I was shocked and appalled. Even more so when the girl beside me said “Oh yes, we all have them, you have to go to the doctor and get medicine to get rid of them.” I went home and was crying to my mother because I just couldn’t bear the thought that those things were living inside me. After she managed to stop laughing she explained that NO, we don’t all have them and that was why she taught us to wash our hands, etc. Can you imagine my relief?

So, no, I won’t be rushing out to infect myself with these either. If I did I would need serious sedation the entire time and probably someone else to wipe my hiney after every…well you know.