Re: [scots-l] pesticide poisoning
Jack Campin wrote: snip The next phase is probably where Erica is. If pralidoxime is not given soon enough, binding of the poison to the enzyme becomes *irreversible*. And for reasons I don't understand, the enzyme is not replaced, ever. There's no consensus on how long you've got before this phase is reached: I've seen 24 hours, 2 weeks and a month all quoted in different books. Once this has happened, nerve damage is permanent and the symptoms are chronically disabling: weakness, fatigue, mental disturbance, spasms, pain, partial blindness. This is what happened to Marion's patients: she could only palliate their symptoms and help them fight a compensation case in court (they won). Big doses of nutritional supplements (e.g. intravenous magnesium) may help to some extent. Hello Jack, Thanks for posting all this. I have many of these symptoms, though thankfully not the partial blindness. As far as I've been able to discover, I was poisoned with 2-4-5-T (a herbicide, not an OP), although my doctor (who is very experienced in the chemical injury field) finds this baffling; he says I have the symptoms of OP poisoning. Either way, I certainly didn't receive any treatment. The poisoning happened in the evening. My then husband and I were living 25 miles out in the bush with no phone, and as we were both too ill to drive or walk (we were both poisoned), we just had to weather the acute phase of it, which was very frightening, although not as severe as what you have described. I don't remember much about it, but I have an image of us clinging to each other, terrified, wondering if we were going to die. We didn't, of course, and he recovered completely (apparently). I didn't. I contracted viral encephalitis soon afterwards, which aggravated matters dramatically, and I've never been well since. These days, though, I'm a lot better than I have been, and I continue to improve (though infuriatingly slowly). Even if it never really goes away, I'd be satisfied with just not being bedridden. I'm sick of not having a life! best, Erica Mackenzie Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: Ian's enquiry (was: [scots-l] Official scots-l site)
At 23:43 -0500 15/2/01, Ian Adkins wrote: A'm sorrie tae hear tha Erica, whit were ye daen drinkin pesticides? A howp yer better soon sae ye kin get back oot intae th sunshine amang th gum trees. Whit's th prognosis gin ye dinna mind me spierin o it? Hello Ian, I've been ill for 15 years, and my doctor says very few people with this sort of problem ever really get over it, but there's a good chance I'll get some sort of life back as long as I stay right away from toxic substances, because my system can't detoxify them as others' can. This is really hard to do in this day and age where these substances are everywhere, but it's better than being ill in bed. I'll get back to my fiddle eventually, I'm sure of it. best, Erica Mackenzie Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Official scots-l site
At 09:18 -0800 18/2/01, Toby Rider wrote: If you don't mind me asking, did you have along term exposure to pesticides, or was this a short-term intense exposure that has triggered your sickness? I'm starting to become paranoid abouts pesticides.. Hello Toby, It was a one-off event; I was living on a farm and ate some heavily contaminated food growing there, and got really ill. I also contracted encephalitis at around the same time (I was living up north in the subtropics), which compounded matters considerably. I've been chronically ill more or less ever since due to liver and nervous system damage. It's a long and messy story which I won't bore the list with, but I will permit myself one grumble: being so ill for so long has made enormous inroads into my progress as a musician. Music was the centre of my life before I was ill, and I'm lucky if I can pick up the fiddle once a month these days. On the other hand if I hadn't been bedridden for so long, I'd have probably never bothered to get on the internet, and then I'd never have found scot-l so I guess there are some consolations g So keep those inspiring posts coming, all of you best, Erica Mackenzie Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Official scots-l site
At 22:25 -0800 14/2/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Adkins wrote: Ur ye naw weel then Erica? Nothing that a wee dram couldn't fix?? :-) Nice thought, Toby, but a wee dram would probably finish me off completely :-( I've got liver (and nervous system) damage from pesticides. Even the smell of alcohol makes me fall over ;-) Erica Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] getting names wrong
At 09:54 -0700 22/12/00, Carol Thompkins wrote: And I wish I had a nickel for everytime someone has called me Mrs. Thompson :-) Carol THOMPKINS (who answers pretty well to Mrs. Thompson after 30 years of marriage bg) Wouldn't mind a 20 cent piece for every time someone's spelt my surname without the 'a'. I always dictate my name to receptionists etc as "Mackenzie with an 'a'". Doesn't necessarily help, though... Erica Mackenzie -- Erica Mackenzie, "Mares Nest", Nellies Glen Rd, Megalong Valley, N.S.W., 2785 "Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught. only then will you find that money cannot be eaten" Chief Seattle Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
