The Blue Man Who Drinks Things and Turns Bie
The Unique Case of the 'Blue Man'
He serves as a warning to all of us not to experiment with our bodies
In 2008 Paul Karason came on the Oprah Show and the entire world got to meet the 'Blue Man'. Whereas the first shock was seeing him, the second one came when Mr. Karason revealed that he was the one responsible for his blue skin due to experimenting with a common home remedy.
Paul was born as a light-skinned man with strawberry blonde hair. He lived a normal life and could walk down the street completely unnoticed. All of that changed in 1994. It started when he saw an ad in a magazine for a colloidal silver generator. The device was advertised as taking a withered daisy, putting it in a glass of coil silver and after some time the flower ended up looking freshly cut. During that time Paul was also hearing that colloidal silver was useful for treating petroleum poisoning: a condition from which his friend suffered from working in a machine shop since the age of seven.
He ordered the generator and went to his friend's shop every day. There, they would each make a glass of colloidal silver and drink it. In his interview with Oprah, Paul said that even though he himself was not suffering from petroleum poisoning, he was not about to give it just to his friend. The kindest thing to do was to drink it with him, and it was after all great stuff.
In no time Paul started noticing the positive effects. He had a problem with acid reflux and in less than three days of taking the home remedy, it was gone. So he kept drinking it: a 10-ounce tumbler of it every single day. He justified the amount to himself by saying it wasn't very strong. But still, Paul didn't turn blue from drinking colloidal silver. It was when he started applying it to his skin when the unwanted changes started happening.
Karason was the sole caretaker of both of his parents who had strokes and were very ill. It was apparent that his father was going to die soon and the stress made Paul develop an intense case of dermatitis. Since he dabbed colloidal silver on cat scratches before and the effect was remarkable, he started to put it on his dry skin too. That is when his skin began turning blue. The change was very gradual and started happening after 2–3 months of consistently applying it. In fact, it was so gradual that nobody noticed it.
Paul was already not getting out much since he was caring for his parents and only went out for groceries. Then a friend who had not seen him in a while came to visit and asked him what he had on his face. Paul didn't know what he was talking about so they went in front of a mirror and stood next to each other. It was then that Karason saw what had happened to him. But by that point, the damage had already been done.
The clarification for Paul's case came in 2008 when Dr. Oz explained how when you put silver in water it is bad for bacteria because it prevents them from making energy, but it does the same to our cells. The silver (the blue color) got into Paul's cells and the same thing happened to him as when you put silver in a photographic plate, expose it to sunlight and it turns into color.
Paul basically tattooed his entire body with silver and was through and though blue not just on the surface. The condition is called argyria.
After appearing on Oprah, Paul gained fame overnight. He became an internet sensation under the name 'Papa Smurf' and all the major media outlets wanted to do a story on him.
In an Inside Edition 2008 interview, Karason surprised everyone when he said "I'm not sure" when asked if he would change back to the way he was. What was perhaps more shocking is that Paul continued to drink the colloidal silver solution even after turning blue and demonstrated how he makes it on camera. His fiance drank the concoction too.
But Paul's luck changed. When the Inside Edition team caught up with him in 2012 he had lost his home and moved into a homeless shelter. He battled with prostate cancer, heart problems, and broke up with his fiance. "People are rather reluctant to hire blue people or people who are noticeably different", Karason said when talking about why nobody would give him a job.
So he packed his belongings and moved from Madera, CA, back to his hometown Bellingham, WA. There he reconnected with Joanne Elkins who he knew from junior high and they started dating. Later they moved in together, but it was not to last.
Paul Karason was 62 years old when he died from the consequences of a heart attack on September 23, 2013, at a Washington hospital. He went down in medical history as the "Blue Man".
Source: https://historyofyesterday.com/the-unique-case-of-the-blue-man-473fdc19e6f2
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