What happened to them?
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Margaret:
I
have been very symptomatic regarding my oil spill cleanup work.
I notice a mention of if contact by ingestion, the tongue becomes
numb; well, I had contact through my skin as I had carried large bags
of oil spill waste wrapped around my hand, over my shoulder and
sometimes atop my thighs if two people were needed to move heavier
bags, (I would get under the bag and set it atop my legs, using my lap
as a sort of makeshift platform, the other person ahead of me with the
bag wrapped around his hand, over his shoulder). The area where
the bags had rested on my thigh, particularly my left thigh has been
numb since the oil spill. There are also areas of intense
lumpiness, tiny pea size hard balls under my thigh-skin that have been
biopsied and shown to be thickened collagen with extra blood vessels.
I
had tumors surgically removed from every contact area, one of the
tumors being very large and embedded under my skin nearly attached to
my muscle; this was the over-the-shoulder area. This large tumor
was cancerous, a rare 25,000 to one type cancer. I have since
discovered a doctor in Tanzania who has discovered a cancer cluster of
this type in Tanzanian women who transport their loads atop their
heads. The tumors develop on their scalps at the areas of
contact. Throughout my travels in a nearby area of Africa, that
being Kenya, I learned long ago that women use "fresh" motor
oil as a cheap form of oil for their hair. My supposition or hypothesis
is that the combination of oil and trauma creates the rare
tumors.
I
have had lesions removed from: two at different times at the back of
my right hand where I wrapped the bag around; the top of my
shoulder/neck area which was the fulcrum of the oily waste bags as I
hauled them across a large ship; the underside of my left forearm; an
atop my lef ankle where I put my foot under bags and scooted or
"kicked" them over the side of the ship onto the pile.
As
far as
blood in my
urine, there has never been a urine specimen
WITHOUT traces of blood, as well, bacteria.
My
health insurance before the oil spill cleanup was at a cost of $18 a
month; within a year, after I began presenting in hospital ERs and
showing mystery symptoms shortly after leaving the cleanup, my health
insurance escalated to $777 per month in 1989. The family
business where I had my insurance was basically canceled because of
me. I believe, in retrospect, the insurance company knew about
toxic injuries; this is before any of the doctors I went to had
connected my symptoms to the oil spill cleanup, before my blood was
checked for oil spill toxins, (and was positive for tri-methyl
benzene, among a few others).
The
worst part about all of this is that my son who was conceived about
four months after I left the job has my same symptoms.
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How can you tell the difference between benzene & 2-butoxyethanol harm?
And could this birth defect be part of what 2-butoxyeathanol could cause?
April, 2005