beginnings of the zombie apocalypse?

Walking down Victoria Street this morning I saw what must surely have been the sickest looking person I have ever encountered outside a hospital.

I have seen people so pale as to be almost grey – I’ve been there myself on occasion, and I have seen one or two in hospital with a yellowy jaundiced look to them but this was the first time I’d actually seen someone I would literally describe as green. To be honest, I thought ‘going green’ was just a figure of speech before today. I have a vague idea about what it takes to go yellow (liver damage will do it) and going deathly white generally means (for someone in the street and otherwise apparently uninjured) that you are going to faint or are in shock (not unrelated). But green?

It wasn’t a bright green; it was more that exceptionally pale hue with an overlay of sickly green, rather like an old, saggy lettuce that has been kept in the dark too long.

He literally looked ghastly.

beginnings of the zombie apocalypse?

Walking down Victoria Street this morning I saw what must surely have been the sickest looking person I have ever encountered outside a hospital.

I have seen people so pale as to be almost grey – I’ve been there myself on occasion, and I have seen one or two in hospital with a yellowy jaundiced look to them but this was the first time I’d actually seen someone I would literally describe as green. To be honest, I thought ‘going green’ was just a figure of speech before today. I have a vague idea about what it takes to go yellow (liver damage will do it) and going deathly white generally means (for someone in the street and otherwise apparently uninjured) that you are going to faint or are in shock (not unrelated). But green?

It wasn’t a bright green; it was more that exceptionally pale hue with an overlay of sickly green, rather like an old, saggy lettuce that has been kept in the dark too long.

He literally looked ghastly.