Looks Good on Paper by Dan Collins for March 09, 2023

It’s the cloud of flies that does it.

True story; Bro-in-law (EMT) on a wellness check saw the person face down with movement under the guy’s shirt. He mistook it for breathing and was ready to administer aid. Turned out the movement was from maggots. He never ate rice again.

Dan and I have some comparable talents. We both draw flies.

It’s hard to understand how it came to this!

https://tinyurl.com/2p92j7ed

Andrew Wyeth, the later years.

Didn’t quite make it home.

In black and white, I can’t tell if those slippers are ruby. But now you can be mulched professionally probably for a lot more money than she spent.

Interesting interpretation and we’ll done.

must have been a mirage

Oh dear.

The drawing is nicely done, but the topic isn’t nice.

Richard Hickok and Perry Smith were busy outside too.

I’m not saying anything other than one of my aunts had polio and this does not make me laugh. Well done, but not funny to me. RIP Sharon.

“The Worst Hard Time” by Timothy Egan

This one Looks Bad on Paper.

“Christina’s No Longer in this World”, 1949

That’s dark.

Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. The condition was once classified as a subtype of muscular dystrophy because of the similarities of the symptoms for the two disorders. However, the progressive weakening that comes with muscular dystrophy is due to problems with the muscles themselves, whereas CMT is a disorder of the nerves that enervate those muscles.

CMT is an incurable, inherited disorder that affects approximately one in 2,500 people, according to a review published in the journal Clinical Genetics. Classic symptoms include gradual, progressive loss of muscle tissue and touch sensation across the body.

Anna Christina Olson, neighbor of Andrew Wyeth

However, Olson’s weakness developed slowly and spread through her body over the course of her life, Patterson said. Her disease affected her feet first. At age 3, she walked on the outer edges of her soles. This implies that the muscles on one side of each foot and leg were weaker than on the other side, and this type of asymmetric symptom is not seen in polio, Patterson said. [n Images: How the Polio Vaccine Made History]

Olson could walk unassisted until she was in her 20s, although she stumbled frequently. It was around this time that her hands showed signs of muscular weakness, too, Patterson learned. In her 50s, Olson was burned while sleeping near a stove. That she could sleep through this burn implies she had difficulties with pain sensation, Patterson said.

“All of these things to me speak against polio, because polio has an acute onset, the deficit is maximum at onset, and then you get varying degrees of recovery afterwards,” Patterson told Live Science.

Also, Olson was born in 1893, several years before the major polio outbreaks, further countering the polio diagnosis, Patterson said.

https://www.livescience.com/54671-christinas-world-painting-nervous-system-disorder.html

In Chadds Ford, Pa., you might not be so popular!

the reason dan felt this was necessary, you have to ask yourself wyeth…