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15 de Marzo, 2007

Curse of the Haunted Enzyme

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OKAY, this has nothing to do with anything I normally take time to write about. But this woman's story sounds so horribly painful and lonely and rare that I had to draw attention to it in case anyone you know has gone through it and desperately seeks an answer. The story has to do with a buildup of enzyme (called TrimethylaMinuria) that leaves a person stinking (very badly and obviously) like "dead fish."

Camille says when she taught, students wouldn't come near her.

"They would say things like, 'Ew, this classroom stinks like dead fish.' They would call me 'Miss Fishy.'"

She asked that her last name not be used because telling her story was difficult for her. Camille described the odor as "a very heavy, intense, dark, deep smell."

"I didn't know why I was emitting such a strong odor. I mean, it can fill an entire room. Recently, it filled an auditorium," Camille said.

Her job as a teacher became excruciating.

"I was so focused on 'Do I smell? Do I smell? Are they saying things? Are they whispering? Are they laughing about me?'" [...]

"I would open windows. I would leave the door open. I'd put fans in my classrooms. I mean the whole nine yards," Camille said.

She also felt a tremendous amount of pain. "I would cry all the way home from school. All the time."

—The Model Who Smells Like Dead Fish , TrimethylaMinuria Can Ruin Your Childhood, Career and Social Life, abcnews.go.com

Wow. It's hard enough just being human in a culture that fears the human scent and the natural human body's appearance and behaviors. This sounds like hell on Earth.

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Comentarios (2)


annie dijo:

GRVTR


how horrible for her. :(

whoever said "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me", was obviously never on the receiving end of hurtful words.


belledame222 dijo:

GRVTR

yipe! that's awful.

kick it, ése.

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