http://www.valdezlink.com/larrie_dee.htm

Dear Oil Spill Cleanup Worker,

This information is very important  

For Women:

www.valdezlink.com/women.htm

For for Men:

www.valdezlink.com/men.htm

Some of this information you can get just by calling the clinics/labs that have a record of your past blood draws.

Doctors haven't been checking enough on the blood to find the hemolytic anemia that happens for those who came in contact with the chemical:


2-butoxyethanol  

C6H14O2/CH3(CH2)2CH2OCH2CH2OH

So, I've been asking around and trying to figure out what needs to be checked.  

Maybe the number of baby red blood cells in your blood?  How many 'grown' red blood cells.  How do they look?  A real lab
tech must LOOK at the red blood cells under a microscope.
http://www.valdezlink.com/hematologist_help.htm

For exhaustion in these years since, it might be blood damage:  ask the
doctor to test you for hemolytic anemia caused from solvents.  Maybe you'll need a specialist in blood:  a hematologist, if you have a choice.

 

Recently a man shared that chemicals can cause endocrine disruption 

... the glandular systems... the immune system seems all 'whacky'  

(You can tell I'm not a doctor)  

It might help to follow the health rules that diabetics follow; 

but even if someone is diagnosed with diabetes, 

that might only be one facet of something larger you are dealing with:

Spleens enlarged, gall bladders enlarged, liver enlarged sometimes; also skin damage, central nervous system damage; bones don't heal as they should, when broken.....

 


The blood damage happens first, as I understand it; 

so it MUST underlie everything else.  

 

That really makes hard for doctors to figure out what's going on 

when they don't understand 

that a couple of things are happening at the same time.   

 

I personally believe that Gulf War Syndrome and too much
2-butoxyethanol are the same symptoms
http://www.valdezlink.com/symptoms_of_gulf_war_illnesses.htm  vs
www.valdezlink.com/feel_print.htm It's for sure too much of some kind of chemical that causes central nervous system damage.  The hair loss could be part of the glandular system problems (endocrine disruption)  I would sure like to know what that little Austin, TX co. was doing testing it's product on the Saudi Beaches in those days



Good food is the best help http://www.valdezlink.com/compromised.htm

- not medications -  as that can give a toxic overload... if you have had
too many chemicals, then more chemicals is not helpful;  not as it would be
for someone who hadn't had too many chemicals in their system.  Avoid
chemicals, and that means alcohol.  It is only 'empty' calories and it is
the same family of chemical " ....ohol'  that our group of workers have been
exposed to.   Plus it speeds damage to the liver

Can you bring this information to your doctor?
www.valdezlink.com/no_fear.htm   I could make an "A" disc for doctors that
you could give him/her in advance of your appointment.  If the doctor will
not cooperate you may need another doctor... but here's hoping that doctors
will be open to considering chemical poisoning issues and helps.
http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/consultants.htm

Stay on top of eye exams too.  

You need the kind that they put drops in your eyes 

and look in the back of your eye.
Maybe see a good ophthalmologist.

You don't want any extra infections to deal with,

so get good dental check ups;

try not to get the flu, etc.

Do you 'Look Like' other workers?

Please share your information.

I have some questions for you... so does the Project

What job did you have?  What is your health status?

 

Were you a 'bioremediation' worker?

Sincerely,  Diann Hursh
PO Box 233, Valdez, AK 99686
1-888-853-5333

 

Let's hope this painter wore appropriate personal protective equipment.

 

2-butoxyethanol harms people

who paint, who clean, who work in the plastics & dry cleaning businesses, too

 

opinion



June 20, 2003