Sue - an ordinary person - Harmed by EGBE?

When I met Sue 4 years ago, it was at the end of a special church service. The speaker had 'nick named' her 'horse-whisperer' ... that she had a gift for leading young people in the right direction and letting them think it was their idea. She was very giving and liked to be with friends. Almost everyone was Sue's friend. She has 3 children and a couple of them really like school. She died Sept 29, 2004.

In getting to know Sue, she shared lots of things, little by little. I strongly suspect that she was harmed even before her birth by a chemical such as 2-butoxyethanol. She told me that at 5 years old she was being taken to the emergency room of the hospital for horrible headaches .... that her mother died of kidney cancer. I saw her have one of those headaches & she turned so pale.

If there were effects from 2-butoxyethanol, you are dealing with a chemical which targets several organs/glands - body systems simultaneously. Which shows up first is sort of irrelevant

First cancer she had was rectal skin cancer. Her death certificate will say she died of liver cancer. However, I was told she had brain tumors at the time of death, too. Prior to that a thyroid ailment with resultant kidney stones. When her oncologist was checking her out that month, I said, "Sue, ask your doctor to test for whether or not you have too many immature red blood cells." He did and she did have too many that were immature. His comment, "Well, what do we do with this information?" I asked her to have the doctor look back and see if there was trace blood in urine, but she died before we found out if another clue of 2-butoxyethanol poisoning were there.

I don't have any medical background; however, since someone in my family was harmed by 2-butoxyethanol by working on the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup, I developed an interest in knowing more about this chemical. It causes hemolytic anemia, the info says, but I haven't seen anyone diagnosed with it yet. Actually it looks just like Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome or 'gulf war syndrome'

A Feb, 2005 news article has expressed concern over 3 soldiers dying after 'flu-like' symptoms with swollen, liver & spleen and organs shutting down. These are also part of the pattern of what 2-butoxyethanol will do. This is a teratogen, a pesticide, a poison, an endocrine disruptor chemical. It can harm the unborn and children of these often are born prematurely and/or have low birth weight. I would suspect SIDS could even be part of what this chemical does.

It targets the liver, it targets the kidneys, all glands, the blood, the immune system and the central nervous system, too. In Sue's case her liver cancer did not respond to chemo-therapy, nor surgical removal of the tumors. At the end of her life her liver was very swollen, and her legs, too ... she could hardly walk. But she had no thought of dying.

I remember when she first met me. She came over and said, "Diann, I feel so drawn to you." Now, looking back, I see that she has helped me understand more of 'the pattern' of this chemical's harm. The pattern was certainly there, although I don't know in exactly what form she came across it: some prior to birth? Some of her own exposures? Maybe even some second hand exposures?

What a loss to us all. To have lost Sue

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