WHAT'S most heartbreaking about starving children isn't the patches of hair that fall out, the mottled skin and painful sores, the bones poking through taut skin.
Trench fever, infectious disease characterized by sudden onset with fever; headache; sore muscles, bones, and joints; and outbreaks of skin lesions on the chest and back.
Their skin is flayed away from painful-looking open sores, revealing bone, muscle and pus underneath.
And yet, after all the treatments and daily stretching exercises, after recently dropping eight pounds on a restrictive diet to ease the strain on his body, after all the times he wakes up with his battered 31-year-old body sore to the bone, a day like Sunday afternoon makes it worthwhile.
Hopefully, we all also know how good they are at making beauitful and brilliant tales of darkness; some kind of wayfaring Americana bleakness, coated in soot, broken boned, sore, and scabbed, always with that brooding beauty that Michael Gira knows how to bend and shape and control at his will.
He listed a number of examples to make this point: "Nelson Nulgo: an honest whore with the general characteristics of the disease including, but not limited to: loss of sensation at the nerve ends, destroyed blood vessels, ligaments and skin tissues, eroded bones, sores, ulcers and scabs.
Now his bones are sore and the sciatica in his legs is extreme.
My muscles and bones are sore.
These will include non-healing socket, pus, exudate, swelling, draining sinus, dry socket, bone sloughing, sore sockets, OAC, oroantral communication, healing not completed, fistula, OAF, oroantral fistula, exposed bone and infection.
