Submitted for your approval: a true story of cutting edge meds and Chinese food.
OK. So I was eating out with a buddy... and I was taking advantage of the date to tell the *entire* story of Genowa, Colorado. If I get agoing, I can take up an entire hour with this story. It's a good one. but I digress. At the end of the story, my friend looks at me and says "you're tongue is blue."
"Blue?"
"Yeah, and your lips, too. You look like you've been, I dunno, eating something blue."
I hightailed it to the nearest mirror and nearly jumped out of my skin. Sure enough... I looked like a kid in summertime after a grape Popsicle.
What was odd was nothing I was eating was blue. Even close to blue. I was eating what looked and tasted tasted remarkably like sweet and sour chicken, only the chicken was grilled instead of fried. Pineapples were involved. There was also a bright yellow shredded-cabbage-looking-creature, but I really just picked that that.
We hypothesized tea. And now is the time for a visual - me and a really pretty waif-like chick sitting in an ornately decorated but almost deserted Chinese restaurant. She takes a sip of my tea and swishes, like she's brushing her teeth. I almost laughed aloud. But nope - no blue stain.
Determined to get to the bottom of this, I called over the German lady who Christina suspected owns the place. She spoke really good English so I was able to talk for myself. Naturally, she was very worried at first - offed to call an ambulance, asked if it was my heart. I assured her I felt fine and the meal was good, I was just curious.
After thinking for a moment, she said she had seen similar things happen with red wine. No wine here.
Then she thought for another moment and said, "I know a way to cure dermatitis."
I'm dead serious. She mispronounced dermatitis, so it took me and Christina a moment to figure out what she was saying, but that was it. She went on to describe a fellow who made his own cream. It cleared up his daughter's skin, she said. The guy got a patent, but all the pharmaceutical companies refused to carry it because they had their own creams.
This has got to be the weirdest way ever for anyone to get skin advice, but hey. It doesn't sound overly expensive or harmful, and who knows, it may work for someone:
http://www.skincell.org/community/index.php/topic,24836.new.html#new
