Candis, I grew up in Hamilton Ontario from age 7 to 21. It was a steel town and so lots of pollution. I too wonder about the 'air' we live in while growing up. Heather in Calgary ----- Original Message ----- From: CANDIS KALLEY To: TMIC-LIST Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 10:35 PM Subject: Re: [TMIC] TM
I don't think that where we lived when TM struck is the only underlying factor. I was watching CNN and the doctor, Dr. Grupa?, said that they have studied the cord blood of newborns and they have found that the cord blood contained over 200 chemicals, not body chemials but harmful chemicals - "contaminated newborns" is what they called the newborns. The Dr. also said that there are thousands of chemicals that are in our food, air, clothing, cleaning supplies, etc. that have NOT been studied to make sure that they are not harmful. A Congressman has submitted a bill that will not allow any chemical to be used until the chemical is proven not harmful - as it stands now, a chemical is put into use and used until it is proven to be harmful! So we are all guinea pigs for the industries. For myself I believe that I had the "bad genes" for my auoimmune sstem but also just 75 days before TM struc me, I had a "botched" surgery then a follow-up "successful" surgery 30 days later. In between the surgeries, I had an allergy reaction to the meds that they gave me. After the "successful" sugery, I went back to work early - due to deadlines which resulted in stress! Added to that were the holidays stress - Thanksgiving and Christmas. I think another factor was that the hospital where I had the "botched" & "successful" surgery was under major remodeling - the surgery rooms where right next to a major area being remodeled. I grew up in Indianapolis, IN. I can rememer the different "smells" in the air - just to name a couple, a creasol pole coating factory, a couple of slaughter houses, meat processing, medical processing, bakeries (Wonder bread and others). I lived there for over 20 years. My daughter was born there and as a baby she had so many attacks of broncitis (sp?) BUT as soon as we moved here in SW FL when she was 2, the attacks stopped. Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably . And never regret anything that made you smile. Prayers and thoughts for you and yours, Candy K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Nichols" <jan...@centurytel.net> To: tmic-list@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2010 10:55:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [TMIC] TM After the awful news Janet Dunn has given us, I am wondering if where we live in the US has any relevance. I realize that there are those in our group that are from other countries and I am asking them along with our US citizens to just send me your name and the city and state you were living in when TM attacked you. I hope you don't mind my asking you to do this, but I think it would be very interesting if we found a certain area that was heavy with TM or very light with TM. Thank you, Janice
