---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote:
Barry wrote: (snip) > The artist, of course, is Joni Mitchell. And on some levels it's tough to > see her, because she's had health > problems all her life (polio at 9, a relapse of same in her 40s, and related > problems ever since) Does she mention that she believes she suffers from Morgellons syndrome? Or has she been...uh...cured of that since she announced it a few years back? I don't judge her or "write her off" for her belief in Morgellons, BTW. It's a weird, scary, awful condition, and I very much hope she's over it. Very strange, this "disease". Here is an excerpt from an interview Joni gave: On April 22, The LA Times asked Joni this question: You’ve come out in the media as a sufferer of a controversial condition known as Morgellons. How is your health currently? Joni Replies I have this weird, incurable disease that seems like it’s from outer space, but my health’s the best it’s been in a while, Two nights ago, I went out for the first time since Dec. 23: I don’t look so bad under incandescent light, but I look scary under daylight. Garbo and Dietrich hid away just because people became so upset watching them age, but this is worse. Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm: they cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral. Morgellons is a slow, unpredictable killer — a terrorist disease: it will blow up one of your organs, leaving you in bed for a year. But I have a tremendous will to live: I’ve been through another pandemic — I’m a polio survivor, so I know how conservative the medical body can be. In America, the Morgellons is always diagnosed as "delusion of parasites," and they send you to a psychiatrist. I’m actually trying to get out of the music business to battle for Morgellons sufferers to receive the credibility that’s owed to them.
