When we moved to
Alaska 20 years
ago we drove the
Alcan Highway
with our
youngest child
who was 5.
Someone said it
would be a good
idea to wrap up
several little
presents & at
the end of each
day she could
unwrap one ...
for good
behavior or a
treat, I
suppose. We
lived in
Glennallen for 6
years and then
moved to
Valdez. What I
want to share
with you today,
is an
end of story
of someone who
has been in
Alaska about as
long, if not
longer. She
also lived in
Valdez the past
4 years or so,
but before that
she lived in
Kenny Lake. She
told me about
her house and it
was about as she
said,
substandard by
most people's
view, but not
a-typical for
many rural
areas. She got
by on just a
little, but
always had a
smile and wore
that brown hat.
When I met Sue 3
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 recent 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.