Elle put up a video on Youtube today, and I thought it deserved mentioning. There's a segment in it about Skye Dailor.
Skye Dailor was thirteen years old when she was diagnosed with CFIDS in 1989. She tried to keep going to school, it only made her much worse. And the other kids decided she was a great target to torture. They would treat her like she had the plague and ostracize her at lunchtime. And they would tell her if she was so sick, she should kill herself. She was only able to handle a year of the abuse and the disease. She ended up swallowing a bottle of pills and dying at age 14. She died on the eve of DeFreitas, Bell, and Chaney's announcement that they had found a new retrovirus in 1990. Something that should have changed the world's outlook on CFIDS. Instead, the world buried the news and let the suffering go on and on.
Skye's brother never forgot his sister. He even had her name tattooed on his neck. He went on to become a successful drummer in a heavy metal band called Mastodon and they wrote and dedicated an entire album to Skye called Crack The Skye. This is the song called Crack The Skye from the album.
I don't think Skye should be forgotten. That someone so young believed there was no other way out but to kill herself because of this disease and because of the hell the kids at school put her through. Skye and all the others like her should never be forgotten.
Skye Dailor was thirteen years old when she was diagnosed with CFIDS in 1989. She tried to keep going to school, it only made her much worse. And the other kids decided she was a great target to torture. They would treat her like she had the plague and ostracize her at lunchtime. And they would tell her if she was so sick, she should kill herself. She was only able to handle a year of the abuse and the disease. She ended up swallowing a bottle of pills and dying at age 14. She died on the eve of DeFreitas, Bell, and Chaney's announcement that they had found a new retrovirus in 1990. Something that should have changed the world's outlook on CFIDS. Instead, the world buried the news and let the suffering go on and on.
Skye's brother never forgot his sister. He even had her name tattooed on his neck. He went on to become a successful drummer in a heavy metal band called Mastodon and they wrote and dedicated an entire album to Skye called Crack The Skye. This is the song called Crack The Skye from the album.
I don't think Skye should be forgotten. That someone so young believed there was no other way out but to kill herself because of this disease and because of the hell the kids at school put her through. Skye and all the others like her should never be forgotten.
