Technicolor Illness

One from the 2025 archives

Well, yes, I do look yellow, thanks for noticing. I do have jaundice, yes it's trending in me ever since my hepatitis sort of stabilized. It's been a week since I've been discharged from the hospital, the place where I went for my high fever and ended up getting admitted for a faulty liver.

Ever since I've started to turn yellow I've wondered why the colour yellow was chosen by the liver. We have a spectrum of colours and I'm a designer that uses colour theory for a living so perhaps I could hand the liver a Pantone shade card for some vivid imagination for yellow does nothing for my complexion and to be fair yellow ain't my colour.

For it's my liver and I should have a say in this, I propose the color orange. Think about it, it's unique. Red has been taken by the cheeks; blue, purple have been taken by the skin bruises; black by the eye and green by nausea. Frankly enough, the choices are limited and I do lean towards orange. I have an orange wall in my room, my curtains and bedsheets are orange, and so is a flower in my bathroom. Orange could look horrifying in the eyes and my face could potentially look angry, but I'm willing to risk it for the sake of originality and uniqueness. Plus imagine people coming up to me and saying, hey look orangey! Or maybe people totally avoiding me for they might deduce I might explode any second, suits me fine either way. As long as human interaction is either too less or wildly exciting.

If not orange perhaps a combination of random four to five colours and the patient gets them in stripes of varying widths. I mean the disease literally has the potential to change your skin color so might as well make it fun to watch, and ease the suffering.