"The treatment is a form of Arsenic and is extremely painful. I was visiting some children receiving their medicine and was amazed at their courage and strength. When the arsenic entered their bloodstream, they curled their toes, turned their heads, and closed their eyes tightly. Their choice was to die or take the treatment. They accepted it with such calm. After 20 years of war and lost family members, they seem to accept this as just another part of the survival process.I think my memories of this dilapidated hospital with no water, electricity, or even enough beds - full of innocent children suffering from sleeping sickness - will be permanently fixed in my mind."
*African Trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is an extremely painful and debilitating disease. Left untreated, it always kills its victims. It is caused by two different types of parasitic protozoans, Trypansooma gambiense and Trypanosoma rhodesiense, transmitted by infected tsetse flies.
There are two distinct stages in the evolution of sleeping sickness:
Stage One - Trypanosomes are present in the blood causing blood and circulatory system disorders. Symptoms include fever, intense headaches, and anemia.
Stage Two- The neurological system is affected. Victims suffer disturbed sleep patterns, are extremely lethargic, and eventually slip into a coma and die.
b/c i find random information useful*
lyrics...
potion
by:morphine
Give me a potion to make me love you
Give me a potion to make me care
Give me a potion to make me love you
Make it a double make it a double
Below the ocean I make my bed down there
Below the ocean I got to live somewhere
Maybe the graveyard and maybe I don't care
Why can't love be blind
Instead it's just a blind man crying
Why can't love be why can't love be blind
Thanks for the potion to make me love you
Thanks for the potion to make me care
Your charms are working on me
Your charms are working hard
Your charms are working on me
Your charms are working hard
Thanks for the potion to make me love you
Make it a double make it a double
by: the church
Can you taste their lonely arrogance
It's always too late
And your face is so cold
They struggled for this opulence
See the suns which blind the men
Burnt away so long before our time
Now their warmth is forgotten and gone
Pretty maids not far behind
Who you trying to get in touch with
I'm almost with you
I can sense it wait for me
I'm almost with you
Is this the taste of victory
I'm almost with you
See the dust which fills your sleep
Does it always feel this chill near the end
I never dreamed we'd meet here once more
Secret Corners
Lying alone, isn't that you
Drifting away
Is the only thing left to do
Such a sad place, such a lost world
But nothing is sadder
Than the tears of a make-believe girl
Who is this child, who is this man
Only two people
Who are doing all they can
Frost on the ground, the cruel winds of fate
Blow us forever
And I know there's just no escape
Run to the secret corners of your room
I'll still be waiting
I'll still be waiting
Dropping Names
I want to break to be beautiful
Seven long nights to think
A handful of words, a sleeveful of birds
Casually left on the sink
Crimson beads, cut out your needs
Leave you feeling more in the pink
Seven long nights at a pre-announced site
A head on my shoulders and I feel all right
Alter the courses, stand near my flames
Questionable sources, only dropping names
Dropping names
I taught her how to be hard or soft
She never really needed to learn
A trip into town, defenses are down
never ever need to return
She holds me by the stars, says look at these scars
Feel my longing burn
Seven long days but I can't change my ways
Look over my shoulder and I say hey hey
"love will tear us apart"
~Joy Division~
When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again --
Why is the bedroom so cold? You've turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed - our respect run so dry?
[or in the Peel version: Is my timing that flawed - have our feelings run dry?]
Yet there's still this appeal that we've kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again --
You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose
There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold
Just that something so good just can't function no more
When love, love will tear us apart again --
deep
by:Nine Inch Nails
blank stare
disrepair
there's a big black hole gonna eat me up someday
(but) someday
fades away
like a memory - or a place that you'd rather be
some place
lost in space
an itch in my head that's telling me somewhere
somewhere
out there anywhere I don't care get me out of here
if I could feel
all the pins and the pricks
if you were real
I could take what's apart and put it all back together now
this will come true
help me get through
into you
deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep
all I can do
driving me through
into you
deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep
one track
got you on your back
your skin speaks up but you lips couldn't say it
right now I know somehow
we could take the chance and we could make it make it
right here make it all disappear
everything that we've been missing missing
you make me feel
like there's a part of me
that I want to get back again
make this come true
help me get through
into you
deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep
all I can do
pushing it through
into you
deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep
all I can do
driving on through
into you
deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep
you're slipping through
I'm coming, too
into you
deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep
we could become
two into one
leave this behind
over and done
everything new
I'm getting through
into you
'Craft of the Union' by Vampire Nation
Descending on the beginning
A flight of my mind
The gates of my consciousness open
yet you were behind
no turning back
I wanted more than you could ever see
I reached to the sky as it enfolded me
and even in the silence more than was ever seen
was found down below in the inner prophecy
(chorus) let me become one
held down by your shroud
but released inside
let this be the answer
as the dark surrounds
my soul will move with the sound
so I begged to these truths
suffer it less
nothing I could do
my path had been set
as I reached out to you
to comfort the pain
long ago you were lost
didn't realize it then
(chorus) so let me become one
held down by your shroud
but released inside
let this be the answer
as the dark surrounds
my soul will move with the sound
and I wanted to hold it up higher
than any plane
but the madness of the center was
driving you insane
so I let go of all that had ever been between us
let go to travel further within
so perhaps its selfish to think i'd ever really matter?
