Crimson Tide

26 year old Christine Drury, suffered from severe blushing. She worked as a nightly news reporter and was always visible to the public. Her face would constantly turn bright red all over and she had to use a lot of green concealer to try to counteract the redness, but it just didn't work. She struggled with often being embarrassed but she fought over it. Blushing can cause confusion and lost of focus. Embarrassment causes blushing and blushing causes embarrassment and Christine wanted the cycle to stop. Christine went to doctors and they assured her she would grow out of it and prescribed anti depressants and then anxiety pills. Nothing worked not even physchotherapy.  A year later she was forced to quit her job by the intolerable blushing. She started searching more about her condition and found others had the same problem. There was a doctor in Sweden how could preform a surgery and stop the blushing. The surgery is called Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy. It involves severing fibers of the sympathetic nervous system that's part of the involuntary nervous system which controls breathing heart rate sweating and blushing. The back of your chest there are two white strings call the symphatic trunks, the road where the nerves travel. A scope is inserted through an incision in the chest and severs the fibers. Christine had the surgery done and it cured her. She still struggled with the feeling of embarrassment but no longer had blushing. She did not lose any of her facial color and her face does not sweat, but her lower extremities do much more now. Christine felt embarrassed that she had a surgery to cure what some people think to be minor, but it gave her normal life back. She got her job back and created the Red Mask Foundation to help others with conditions like she had.