Abduction Experiences -- Part III
 Bruises, Scars, and Burns
 
 
 

Recorded:   Sun Aug. 24 13:50 EST 1997
 
 

In her article, "Are You an Alien Abductee?1," Melinda Leslie  describes some of the physical and psychological symptoms that seem to be common in abductees:
 

 
    My daughters and I have experienced many of  these symptoms.  Some of these, such as sinusitis and headaches,  are common complaints here in the South.  It would be unusual if we did not experience them Here are some of those experiences.  However others are quite unusual so I'll recount some of those for you.
 
    The experiences of my older daughter, "K" began when she developed a sleep disorder  and what was diagnosed as a  "behavioral disorder."   It first manifest itself quite suddenly one afternoon at nursery school right after her 5th birthday.  The teacher awakened her by shaking her shoulder and "K" went into hysterics.    She became very withdrawn and about 4 months after the first episode she hospitalized.   She was diagnosed as having a sleep disorder plus a "behavioral disorder."  She responded well to the structured program as well as the behavior modification treatment she received and returned home after a stay of about 3 months.   She was enrolled in a Christian school where there was a well structured program and the discipline was fairly strict.  She continued to receive counseling on an outpatient basis for the next couple of years.
    The school closed at the end of her fourth grade year and she transferred to a public school.    During this time she began to experience increasing frequent nose bleeds and also began to show signs of increasing stress.  She started complaining of  floating "dreams" and stopped sleeping through the night.   The  sinus and  immunity problems she had been bothered with all along seem to worsen.  Finally she seemed to become severely disoriented and eventually she totally shut down.
    She would not tell  anyone (her father,  her teachers, her counselors or me) what was happening to her.  We could not get her to tell us what was frightening her so badly that she would withdraw into herself.   We had concluded that her problems were being caused from the pressures of  adjusting to a public school situation.    We felt she was just having a difficult stage as she was also beginning to experience the first stages of puberty.  We believed that a combination of factors was causing  all the strange behaviors we had never observed in her before.   We tried to reassure her and help her adjust to the new situation.   But as things progressed she seemed to become terrified of everything.  She began to have anxiety attacks and began to throw up at school.   Then she started having panic attacks and would become so frightened she would pass out.   Her father and I decided that having her hospitalized seemed to be our only option.
    On November 2, 1992 she was once again hospitalized.   Shortly thereafter she begin to tell the therapist and Psychologist at the hospital  what she was experiencing.   She stated she was  able to see  colors surrounding people (auroras), to hear voices, and seeing strange people in her bedroom.   Since the Mental Health community does not believe in ESP or any related phenomenon, they began to give her drugs they hoped would blocked  out the colors, voices, and visions of strange people in the  night.
   The problems continues.   She was diagnosed as Serious Emotionally Disturbed and placed in a special class at school.   She became severely School Phobic and started refusing to go to school.   In August of  1994, after she had been hospitalized for the fourth time, the diagnose was changed to Major Depression with Psychotic Features. (Psychotic Features is the politically term  they use around here until you are old enough to be labeled Schizophrenic.)  She was on extremely strong anti psychotic drugs in combination with antidepressants.
    It has taken three years for the Mental Health care givers to find the right combination of medication to control her symptoms well enough for her to return home.  We hope she will be able to stay on a "permanent basis"  and the attempt is being made to get her into some regular 11th grade classes.   She is still officially a "Exceptional Education" student and her  placement is in the Serious Progress Mental Illness division.   
    I have to monitor her medication fairly closely and I can tell when she's missed a dose of one or other of her medicines.  When that happens she starts to talk about the colors that surround someone in the room with her and/or hearing voices speaking to her.  Recently,  she came over to me and began placing her hand about 6" over my head. She said I had white smoke encircling me. She said it was different from  the energy she can feel surrounding people and seemed to start where the energy left off.   I make sure she took her Risperdal immediately and had her second dose exactly 4 hours later.  In case this doesn't correct the problem her dosage may have to be increased.
    She takes the "new" anti-psychotic drug Risperdal  which has done wonders for her.  The Risperdal (generic name risperidone) is a product of Janssen Pharmaceutica which is in turn owned by Johnson & Johnson.   The wonderful thing about this drug is it does not cause the patient to suffer with a deterioration in thinking functions    
        Recently she began to complain of pain in her back.  When  X-rays were taken of her spine  her the Doctor found that she has an extra vertebrae in her spine.   He said it was unusual but that it should give her any problems and prescribed some exercise to strength her back muscles.
  
    My youngest daughter, "L",  has a scar that runs from just below her shoulder to just above her tailbone. She has had the scar since she was 4 years old.   The first morning I saw the wound I thought she had been scratched by a coat hanger or a piece of metal.  She had   been in my bedroom closet when she first started complaining about the pain it was causing her.   I put antibiotic salve on it and she stopped complaining.  As the wound healed what I believed to be a simple scratch left a scar that appears to have been from some sort of surgery.
    A couple of years ago she had her back examined and a full set of x-rays taken. The doctor found that her spinal vertebrae are not connected at the bottom so that they float above her coccyx and pelvic bone. He said it had probably never fused properly or she had broken it loose in a fall.   Interestingly enough the scar ends almost exactly  where the break appears. 
     Not long after she got the "coat hanger scratch" she started developing  a variety of viral infections.   The most notable of these was Cat Scratch Fever.  This infection causes sever swelling in the glands of the neck. The fluids causing the swelling begins to localize as the poison works its way out of her glands.  The result is a knot or nodule which a doctor can eventually drain by inserting a needle into the lump.   In my daughter's case the nodule ruptured the morning she was to get it drained so she has a small round indented scar where the fluid came out.
    When she was seven she began to complaining about places on her back and side were burning, itching and very painful.   An examination revealed patches that looked like random spots of mild sunburn.   Within 24 hours, the patches had developed into large watery blisters.  The Doctor stated it sounded like she had chicken pox when I spoke to him over the phone..   This  was puzzling as "L" had suffered through a very bad case of Chicken Pox when she was three.   On the way to the Doctor's office I realized my mother had suffered from blisters just like those one summer.  Sure enough "L" had the Shingles.       The Doctor said although Shingles is rare in children  she apparently had not developed a complete immunity to the Herpes virus that is the root cause of the Chicken Pox and Shingles so when she became infected again the virus developed into the more painful condition.   This particular nasty virus attacks the central nervous system.   Children develop a blistering rash that can cover parts or all of their body.  When adults contract the virus they develop skin blisters that follow one or more nerve trunks (branches) around the body.  The third form is rare and shows no external symptoms instead it infects the nerve tissue itself.
    In the past two years, "L"  developed a problems with nose bleeds and sleepwalking.   Moreover, she had begun voicing complaints about floating or flying out of her window and/or levitating off her bed at night.   She said that she didn't mind the flying but the sudden fall when she came back to her bed was scaring her cat.   The cat didn't want to sleep on the foot of the bed when she kept dropping down and waking it up.
    Right after Christmas last year she started voicing anger at the "grey man" who disturbed her at night.   She stated he was the same one who visited "K" at the old apartment.  This in addition to the other things became so bothersome that she stopped sleeping at night.  She began to sleep at school, but when the teacher and the aide wouldn't allow her to sleep in class, she stopped going to school.   
    Several months ago I discovered a strange callus on her neck which looked like she has been carrying a yoke with something heavy hanging from it. If she was a Chinese peasant the callus wouldn't have looked out of place.   She also has a small hump in her neck just below the callus.   Since she is a couch potato I decided to tell her it was from the pillows on the couch rubbing against her neck.   That story won't hold water, but it sounded better than "Oh, it's just another of those marks that appear on people who have been abducted."
    As I said she refused to return to school after the Christmas holidays so with the help of the school we petitioned Juvenile Court for help with her.   In March, she was placed in the custody of our state's Department of Children Services.    At the time of this report she is no longer living at home.  On the positive side this  change of living arrangement a great many of her "symptoms" have become less acute.  The callus is now beginning to fade as is the surgical scar.   It is  as if whatever caused them and/or caused them to remain fresh for all these years has stopped.  Her nosebleeds have all but stopped as have her complaints flying and levitation.   She is still sleep walking a good bit so her Doctor at the Residential Care Facility (politically correct term for hospital)  has put her on medication for the sleepwalking and hopefully that will end soon.   Previous to her placement she had been diagnosed as having Disassociative Disorder, Adjustment Disorder, and Attention Deficit Disorder without Hyperactivity.   To this has been added Bipolar Disorder.

 
    As I said "sinus problems" are not an unusual occurrence in this area today, but when I was little that was not the case.   Not long after my first abduction my sinus cavities totally closed up. I was desperately ill and the doctors had to do x-rays on my head to discover what was causing the problems.   At the same time my body's immunity system body began to fail.   I developed severe tonsillitis which left me unable to swallow so I had to be feed intravenously.   Eventually Mother's doctor back home removed my tonsils which ended the tonsillitis, but did nothing to help my immune system.   Not long after I had my tonsils out I developed Mononucleosis which in turn lead to Rheumatic Fever and related Rheumatic disease in every form but St. Vitas Dance.
    When I would come down with a mundane childhood disease like Measles or Scarlet fever it always seem to trigger another bout of Rheumatic Fever or Rheumatoid Arthritis.   The only childhood disease that didn't was Chicken Pox.  Mother stated I has diagnosed as having Chicken pox three times as a child.   This should have given my immunity to the virus however, as an adult I've had both the Shingles and Reticulitis.  Sometimes I wonder why every viral infection which afflicts mankind seems to try itself out on me first.   I feel that maybe I'm a testing ground for virus that have been mutated just to torment mankind.   Even now when I no longer work or interact with the public I still seem to be the first person diagnosed with whatever malady that is about to become popular.   This should give you an idea of how the physical symptoms can affect an abductee.   It isn't a lot of fun.  Every time hear someone say they want to be abducted I have to fight the urge to hit them repeatedly around the head and shoulders with one of Mother's old iron skillets.
 
    However, the physical toll of abduction can be mild when compared to the psychological toll that the abductions have taken.   It is like spending your life in a war zone.  When the Psychologist first diagnosed my as having Post Traumatic Stress Disorder I thought I am one of the walking wounded in the first Intergalactic War.  Moreover, I'm still in the combat zone.
    Waking in the night to find myself paralyzed with some dark figure standing over  you does not make for peaceful rest.  I told my Psychologist that those dark figures were the real Men In Black .   Their appearance as more of an absence of something than an actual physical form.  I compared it to the special effect where someone but on a blue or green covering and told the computer that anything that color just wasn't there.   There was a sort of  blue or black blank space where they should have been.
    This "man who isn't there" has led Bill to modify his behavior a bit.  The black figure is the one that startles the girls and I causing us scream when we awaken to find him standing over us.  He has become such a matter of routine that my husband will not come into the room at night until the person in the room is fully awake.   He has learned that simply walking in to the room when we were asleep results in the individual's awakening with a sudden start and more often than not screaming bloody murder.
    Several months ago, I awoke paralyzed and knowing I was not alone.  Suddenly  I realized that  small silver figures were not there for me.  They were escorting my husband toward the bedroom window.   I just closed my eyes to that one.  My husband is stubborn enough to take care of himself.  The silvery-grey figures are not as terrifying when you know they aren't there for you.   
 

    The most annoying indicator/symptom is the almost constant irritation is having to listen to "crickets" (high-pitched sounds) or "the buzzing alarm clock" (low pitched humming sounds, usually with a rhythm  or  cadence).  This racket is almost constant and is quite annoying.   Then there are the voices. "L" has times when she comes to me fussing about my calling to her or speaking to her from another room.  She gets angry when I tell her she is "hearing things" again.  Thankfully, she has been able to deal with this phenomenon quite well.   She has always seemed able to ignore such things better where "K".

    And finally the saddest and most emotionally painful of all the things the "symptoms" has been what has been called a "missing fetus."  My first child was taken very early in the first trimester of pregnancy.   One night I went to bed pregnant and awakened the next morning to the knowledge the fetus was gone.   Not miscarried just gone.
    My Ob-Gyn thought at first it had been an etopic pregnancy but after bunches of tests and examines by second Doctor he wrote it off to unexplained factors probably related to my age.  ( 31)   I still wonder about that baby which I "knew" to be a little boy and now I wonder if he is stored out there somewhere waiting or if he survived at all.         

 
  1 "Are you an alien abductee?"   52 signs of abduction by UFOs or aliens! Indicators compiled by Melinda Leslie  , edited by Mark Williams.
 

 
 
 

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