Description: A Journey with Rheumatoid Arthritis
I could also be lost in translation or lost in Transformation – it’s been going on for several years and I am not sure any more. I think of a worm that spins a cocoon, becomes a gob of goo and then transforms into a gorgeous butterfly. I can visualize the worm becoming goo, but I haven’t been able to wrap my mind around from goo to butterfly. At times I feel I am stuck in the goo stage without a clue how to transform to a butterfly or anything else. Mainly I am stuck in pain, health issues – issues in
I checked out Google to see if there was an answer there and I found it. The caterpillar has some kind of signal to stop eating and hang from a twig, then begins to spin a cocoon. It digests itself, releasing enzymes to dissolve all of its tissues – caterpillar soup. When I read about the transformation, I learned that when the caterpillar is hatched, it has certain highly organized groups of cells known as imaginal discs that survive the digestive process. Before hatching, when a caterpillar is still d
Once a caterpillar has disintegrated all of its tissues except for the imaginal discs, those discs use the protein-rich soup all around them to fuel the rapid cell division required to form the wings, antennae, legs, eyes, genitals and all the other features of an adult butterfly. Without the imaginal discs, it would be a cocoon of goo forever. That makes a lot more sense than wondering how the gob of goo becomes a gorgeous butterfly. Such an amazing thing about Mother Nature and God, all the bases are c