Face and about posts between 12th and 20th May....[London, UK]

okay, if you really need to know....i couldnt rotate this picture after resizing it with iResize........so, er....there you ago...chickenpox doesnt look that bad on my face but i can safely state that its itching crazy....itttttch....itttcccch...iiiiitch........not so much my face really, but the ears and abdomen and legs and forearms and elbows and.....wooooooah.....i do this dance that my friend half sighs and laughs at.........its quite ridiculous really....like a terrible michael jackson impersonation done by a rabid chimpanzee who can't dance....

oh and yes....posts between 12th and 20th May??!?! er, many of the photos are in girlfriend's camera and won't see her till monday so will try to rectify that then.......

photo taken with Ricoh Caplio R4

Chickenpox!!!!!! aaaahahahaha....[London, UK]

okay, so im 24 already....but my mate and i have agreed - its chickenpox i have....ahahahaha...

itchy red spots? red boils?? all over the body? jumping about like a chicken last night...the stark fact did not go unrecognized....thankfully......

my right forearm today.........its fun stuff really.......especially with the bacterially infected wounds....update on them...the one on my left leg is hardening into a gigantic scab.....and beginning to itch too...ahahahah.....

picture taken with Ricoh Caplio R4

Red spots...[London, UK]

dutifully went back to the NHS Walk-In Centre for check-up....nurse changed my dressing......the wounds looked pretty gruesome to me but she said they were "looking good". was not about to doubt the medical expert in the consultation room.....besides, was quite relieved to hear something positive...

so....as per instruction......to keep wounds dry.......no showers till sunday.....will have to change dressings on my own........again, big thanks to the british medical system and taxpayers! received some free swabs, dressings and sterile topical irrigation solution packs.....yaaaaarhhh.....

on a worrying note....

itchy red spots...some even look like boils....have appeared all over my body.......my abdomen....forearms.......face.......thighs....back of knees...........................

and what did the nurse have to say about this occurrence? 

i forgot to ask....eeeeheeh.....oh well....

couple of them behind my left knee....

and on my right forearm.....

and ears, they are itching....itching....itching....itching..........my body is not happy.....will have to go to a chinese doctor once i get to Toronto to visit my brother........not loving the antibiotics im taking.....the flucloxacillin........but no, im not saying that the pills are causing my skin to erupt like never before seen...........cos really, i had these spots on me once i got to england and before i started taking the heavy meds..........

friend whose place im staying at....wonders if im allergic to the air here in london...aahahaha......

pictures taken with Ricoh Caplio R4

Its not ringworm anymore...its a bleddy bacterial infecion!! [London, UK]

yeap....according to the doc at the Victoria NHS Walk-in Centre here in London...

I do not have ringworm...and it didn't look like eczema or dermatitis to him either...indeed, he suspected i have a bacterial infection...great....just great news really....

i was wondering about the two good-looking worms for the past couple of days though, with all that pus and whatnot...

learnt something new....when there is pus....they're called weeping wounds, that's what they are....

i have no idea if its the three times a day of Ringworm No More that has caused this remarkable transformation but i can safely say that ill be attempting to get my money back on these products from Forces of Nature...i mean....they didnt work after all...

well, it wasn't even ringworm you say? misdiagnosis no?

for more than five months now...i've not had any pus oozing without end from the wounds.....and during that time, three doctors confirmed that i was suffering from the fungal affliction...

so, somehow and someway.....the two ringworm wounds took on a new form......quite pleasant really......they were swelling......some mild stinging pain....all round discomfort in the self-wrapped and girlfriend-wrapped cotton gauze dressings.......

Major thanks to this funny bloke at Gees Chemist...yesterday it was.....when he referred me to the NHS Walk-in Centre...told me how they admit non-UK citizens......

Had called a private practice that was round the corner from where I was staying...near Pimlico station...cos im no UK citizen...the doctor had to treat me as a private patient...which would have meant £60!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yea...so....the doctor's secretary/nurse/administrative staff suggested the pharmacist....lovely people so far in London...practically every single person ive interacted with.....

i suppose.....thanks are due to the British taxpayers....was only charged a whopping £7.20 for all my troubles.......

Had antibiotics prescribed....the exact thing i was aiming to avoid by turning to traditional and alternative medicines........my gut and liver are not appreciative either but i figured.....perhaps it would be prudent to take action now and avoid gangrene developing on both my arm and leg......

spiffy dressing the nurse glommed onto my leg....

even fancier stuff here on my arm....was not allowed any showers though....have to keep wounds dry but im going in again tomorrow as instructed....hope things will be more favourable tomorrow.............

pictures taken with Ricoh Caplio R4

2nd day of Application [Istanbul, Turkey]

no dramatic recovery recorded yet.....

me leg....

leg again...

arm...

Wrote this on 20 May, 2009....its 11pm now...

all pictures taken by Amy M. Johnson with Canon E0S Digital Rebel XTi 

First Applcation...[Istanbul, Turkey]

Mild excitement at starting the treatment...mild, because more than a month of Ayurveda meds did not work...also...skeptical about testimonials and reviews of the product...oh well...Forces of Nature does have a money back guarantee...but i failed to keep the package....yes, silly me threw the thing away..so im guessing the guarantee might be off...we'll see....hopefully wont have to....and the treatment will really work...

did not expect the application process to be this difficult....had to shake the tiny bottle, up and down, rather hard, before a few drops were coerced onto my left arm and leg...



Ringworm on outside of my left leg...that's a one Turkish lira next to the worm...equivalent to HK$5 dollars or US$0.57 i think...


Another gorgeous looking shot of my leg...



The other worm - on my left arm, near my elbow...



and another shot of the arm...

Wrote this on 15 May, 2009....about 1pm to 1.36pm.....browsing thru sites on interweb at same time...

all pictures by Amy M. Johnson with Canon E0S Digital Rebel XTi 

Package Received from Forces of Nature!! [Istanbul, Turkey]

So, I have received my package from Forces of Nature...here are some very exciting photos of the delivery...

The piece of white paper with black print are instructions for the various products Forces of Nature has...which includes clear instructions for Ringworm No More too...

I purchased the bundle of two...

A bottle of Ringworm No More...

The All Natural and Therapeutic Handmade Soap - Fungal Cleanse...

treatment will begin tomorrrrrrrrow...........fingers crossed.....

pictures taken with Amy M. Johnson's Canon E0S Digital Rebel XTi 

Why this blog?! [Istanbul, Turkey]

Well....other than to document my progress in recovery from ringworm....i wanted to offer genuine feedback.....a review....or a testimonial if you like....of the product i am about to deploy in my battle against the fungi friend/enemy......

i tried in vain.....lookin for independent sources that verified Forces of Nature's claims......or any other herbal/organic/natural solution to ringworm.........i lie...

actually found one 

msged the author of this review...indeed....you can see my question under the Questions/Answers panel........but.................................no reply......could not possibly affirm that this was not a fake.....

another source......

like many websites that hawk wares, Forces of Nature has a testimonials section too..........

was excited to see that one of the testimonials had an email address.....so i sent Teresa at tesigns13@yahoo.com a short message....what i got however....was an email from the postmaster telling me that this email did not exist anymore........

so much for testimonials....

and here we are thus.....and how does the entire premise of reviewstream.com sound to you??? 

i think, at some point or another, ill definitely be trying my hand at writing some crappy reviews and making a couple of cents off it!

on....22 May, 2009......3.51am......London time......

Greetings from The Ringwom Cure...[Istanbul, Turkey]

Hello all!

Have ringworm but don't really dig modern pharmaceutical products...

Normally turn to Traditional Chinese doctors in such dire times but currently not in a place where such luxuries are readily available.

Short - I've purchased a seemingly herbal organic Ringworm remedy from the interweb and will attempt to detail my hopeful progress here...

bought a couple of these products from the following company:

Forces of Nature

As you'll observe, this website is based in Europe but don't fret if you're in the Americas or Asia...they have sites for those two regions too...correct me if im wrong, but I think the Asia website (which I think is based in Taiwan) does not carry the Ringworm treatment products...

Onward...

Specifically, I bought the Ringworm Treatment - Ringworm no More and the Fungal Cleanse Medicated Soap

These are details of my semi-hefty purchase...I am still a college/university student after all...

Order Number: 100142

1 x .Fungal Cleanse Medicated Soap (RW) 100g (FCRWSOAP) = US$14.95
1 x BUNDLE: 2x11 Ringworm No More (RingNMBUNDLE) = US$39.50

Sub-Total: US$54.45
Shipping (Global Priority): US$9.95
Total: US$64.40

Have to hand computer over to girlfriend now, she has real work to hand in little more than 12 hours...later entries will provide gruesome (to some at least, I've become quite used to my two fungal friends...) photographic evidence of my ringworm and also er, well, there'll be more, there you go...

Written on 12 May, 2009.....5.20pm to 5.40pm.....Turkish Time....all times will refer to times where I am located at.......