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From - valdez@alaska.com 

To: kkirkland@aoec.org ; AOEC@AOEC.ORG
Cc: jschilling@aoec.org ; idenis@aoec.org ; pdavis@aoec.org
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:28 AM
Subject: Do you have helps for those overexposed to oil cleanup chemicals - such as in Exxon Valdez Oil Spill?

 

To the Association of Occupational and Environmental clinics:

 

I noticed your website & goals & feel we have a couple of non profit groups in Alaska who might want to 'hook up' with you
Note one of their projects:   www.valdezlink.com/project.htm   They seem to need more help to find the workers of the Exxon Valdez Oil spill cleanup and to get them accurate diagnoses
 
If you wish to link to my study on what workers encountered during the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup -please feel free to
 

Workers are particularly needing help 

in doctors being able to find the hemolytic anemia 

these workers have to have from the 2-butoxyethanol poisoning....

 

but doctors - until later stages - don't seem to find it

      www.valdezlink.com/open_letter.htm   

It happens immediately & it doesn't go away...

 
So I'm thinking that if only blood counts are being looked at .... maybe there needs to be a differentiation made between baby red blood cells and adult red blood cells... & also they need to know what the volume of blood is.  I know of 3 workers (& hearing of others) now that are fainting  ... It has to be lack of blood...
 

The symptoms of 2-butoxyethanol are the same as gulf war syndrome vets have... & secondarily some of their spouses... as I have heard that spouses of vets are coming down with the same symptoms as vets  

... getting second hand exposures from a loved one 'breathing' on them?  www.valdezlink.com/aggressive.htm ? 

http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/chemicals_avoid.htm#doctor 

 
What happened to Capt Richard  -  delivered chemicals to the workers on the beaches - a boat capt  http://www.valdezlink.com/capt_richard.htm
He was only recently diagnosed with hemolytic anemia that he has had to have had all these years.
 

It is a great loss to medical science and future workers 

- to not locate these workers and document what has happened to them.

Please, can you help?

 
Diann Hursh
PO Box 233
Valdez, Alaska 99686
907-835-5333  Alaska time zone (4 hours earlier than you)
 

 http://www.valdezlink.com/fq_na.htm

www.valdezlink.com/1989photos.htm 

A friend is someone who knows
the song in your heart
and can sing it back to you
when you have forgotten the words

--  Unknown

No Regrets

 
Your web page that I found from http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/
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