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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.

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Date: 2011-07-20 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluesman.livejournal.com
One of my colleagues went orange once. Too many carrots. I kid you not.

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Date: 2011-07-20 01:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] changeling72.livejournal.com
Was it a mirror..?

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Date: 2011-07-20 02:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com
Cheeky sod.

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Date: 2011-07-20 03:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] littleonionz.livejournal.com
Well, if you will live in London...

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Date: 2011-07-20 04:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keresaspa.livejournal.com
Hypochromic anaemia causes green skin - it has something to do with the red blood cells being borked.

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Date: 2011-07-20 04:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com
Sounds awful. Whatever it was the poor sod really did not look well.

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Date: 2011-07-20 06:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keith-london.livejournal.com
One man's sickly green Londoner is another man's healty Martian. :-)

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Date: 2011-07-21 11:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com
Then we need not fear Martians! ;-)

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Date: 2011-07-20 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] failing-angel.livejournal.com
He literally looked ghastly
He was a ghast?

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Date: 2011-07-21 10:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com
No, he simply looked like one.

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Date: 2011-07-21 09:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] failing-angel.livejournal.com
Maybe he has a ghoulish sense of humour

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Date: 2011-07-22 12:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karinmollberg.livejournal.com
The colour green is being widely underestimated, even today. Snif.

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