JFK, Addison's Disease, Iatrogenic Cu****ng's Syndrome, and the SBT

As we know, there's a lot of controversy stirred up by conspiracists over 
Kennedy's back wound location and whether a single bullet fired by Oswald 
from the sixth floor TSBD could pass through and out his lower anterior 
neck, (if, according to them, it passes out at all), and goes on through 
Connally, through his right wrist, into his left leg, and ending up on a 
stretcher at Parkland Hospital -- the Single Bullet Theory, CE 399. 
Conspiracists maintain that the upper body bullet trajectory isn't on a 
downward path because the exit wound in the lower throat is higher than 
the upper back, therefore another bullet hit Kennedy in the throat from 
the front, and they say the autopsists found the bullet hole in Kennedy's 
upper back positioned lower on his back than the Warren Commission did.

Conspiracists also say that the bullet hit Kennedy lower than the Warren 
Commission and its defenders say it did, because the bullet holes in his 
****rt and jacket are lower than the Commission said, therefore it was a 
shot from somewhere other than the TSBD, possibly the Dal-Tex building. 
They say this can be proven by where his ****rt and jacket were located on 
his back -- "bunched up," or "not bunched up" -- at the time of the CE 399

shot at around Z-223.

For conspiracists to use these perceived viewpoints as "evidence" or proof

of other shooters in Dealey Plaza in trying to prove the SBT invalid, is 
wrong. Other than the fact that there were indeed mistakes, changes, and 
some confusion in the autopsists re****ts and testimonies regarding the 
actual location of the upper back bullet hole, I feel the reason for the 
confusion was not because of a cover-up and conspiracy, but because of a 
condition I believe Kennedy suffered from known as Iatrogenic Cu****ng's 
Syndrome.

Unfortunately I can't verify this by citing re****ts and documents because 
I don't have access to Kennedy's confidential medical records, nor do I 
have charts and diagrams with the actual mathematical measurements of the 
curves of his spine while he is sitting in the back seat of his limo, the 
likes of which I highly doubt were done by his doctors in the first place.

But from Kennedy's known medical condition and certain known medical 
facts, I can draw a solid inference that he suffered from this disorder, 
and that this can help to understand how the SBT can, and does, work.

What I do have is the known fact that Kennedy suffered from Addison's 
Disease, had for many years and indeed almost died from it, and the fact 
that he was prescribed large doses of cortisone to treat it. I also have 
the known medical fact that intake of large doses of cortisone, over time,

causes osteo****osis and a condition known as Iatrogenic Cu****ng's 
Syndrome, an exaggerated outward curving of the upper spine and forward 
positioning of the chest, head and neck area (also called Kyphosis).

For detailed information on this medical condition, please refer to the 
two article links below, and/or Google "Osteo****osis, Iatrogenic Cu****ng's

Syndrome, Addison's Disease, Steroid use, Kyphosis" and/or any combination

of similar key words:

http://upmc.com/Services/MinimallyInvasiveendoNeurosurgeryCenter/ConditionsTreatments/cu****ngs.htm

http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/BHCV2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Hormones_cortisone?open

This medical condition, with the way it caused Kennedy's upper body to be 
rounded and angled forward with the anatomical "pu****ng forward" of his 
upper spine, upper chest, and head and neck, helps to place his lower 
anterior neck where the exit wound was, *below* the upper back, and in 
line with the SBT shot at around Z-223.

I believe this medical condition is one of the most under researched (if 
at all researched), but nevertheless im****tant, keys to understanding the 
SBT and how the bullet enters and passes through Kennedy's upper back and 
exits where the Warren Commission said it did. I also believe this is why 
there was some confusion as to the placement of the actual wound on charts

by the autopsists, and that measurements made from the mastoid process 
behind the right ear may have muddled a way to determine the exact 
location when comparing it to the rest of Kennedy's upper back. In other 
words, in the confusion, and in hastily fini****ng the autopsy because the 
Kennedy family (especially Mrs. Kennedy) didn't want to leave Bethesda 
without the body, pathologists were simply mistaken in thinking the bullet

hole might have been located at vertebra T3 or thereabouts because, due to

Kennedy's exaggerated spine curvature, T3 would appear higher on Kennedy's

spine than on a normal spine. And, in the years since the assassination 
and with subsequent investigations such as the HSCA, the reason why there 
remains some confusion as to the actual placement of the bullet hole is 
because pathologists still have to rely on these hastily drawn charts, 
diagrams, and autopsy photos to try to re-determine where the bullet hole 
was located. And, of course, this confusion carries over to researchers 
studying the assassination and is the reason for the ongoing controversy.

So, if one measures the distance from the mastoid process behind Kennedy's

right ear to the bullet hole, as was actually done at the autopsy, because

of the exaggerated curvature of his upper spine placing his head and neck 
in a more forward position than a normal person, that distance is going to

be deceiving, even to a trained pathologist pressed for time, when 
compared to measuring a more flat, straighter neck and upper spine.

Iatrogenic Cu****ng's Syndrome can also help explain why the bullet holes 
in Kennedy's ****rt and jacket don't line up exactly with the actual bullet

hole in his upper back, and why they may be further down:

How ****rts and jackets are generally tailored, the way they drape over the

upper back from the collar on down on normal people (who, by the way, all 
have outward curves in their upper spines, though not as exaggerated as in

people with Iatrogenic Cu****ng's Syndrome) and compensating for the 
exaggerated curve in Kennedy's upper spine -- this curve's rounded 
measurement adding distance to the measurement of the ****rt and jacket 
fabric -- is why when we see pictures of his bloody ****rt and jacket 
hanging straight down as opposed to being actually worn on him, and when 
measured from the collar straight down -- without the spinal curve -- the 
holes in the ****rt and jacket appear lower.

So to sum: Because Kennedy was not sitting straight up in the limo, his 
spine not on a completely vertical line at the time of the shot, and that 
he was slumped forward a bit not only because he sat that way normally as 
some people do, (some more than others), but also because he was suffering

from Iatrogenic Cu****ng's Syndrome that caused his upper chest, head, and 
neck area to slump forward somewhat, we can see and understand that the 
actual location of the entry wound, and the path of the bullet through his

upper body and out his lower anterior neck area, indeed does line up with 
the approximate 17 degree downward trajectory of the Warren Commission 
exhibit 399 bullet fired at around Z-223 from the easternmost window of 
the TSBD sixth floor sniper's nest.

And one final thought: If conspiracists want to respond by saying that 
because they don't see a pronounced curve in Kennedy's upper back in 
photos and film, therefore it didn't exist, this would be incorrect. 
Iatrogenic Cu****ng's Syndrome is a real medical condition and is the 
result of taking large doses of cortisone over long periods of time in the

treatment of Addison's Disease. In other words, although in Kennedy's case

any Iatrogenic Cu****ng's Syndrome information is not publicly known and is

quite possibly undocumented by his doctors (as far as I know), we can 
safely infer that Kennedy did in fact suffer from Iatrogenic Cu****ng's 
Syndrome because he, in fact, took large doses of cortisone for treatment 
of his Addison's Disease.

James