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posted by samhouston1886
I have about 24 hours of exposure immediately after the event and
I worked in the area for 3 months.
posted by samhouston1886
The medical community has been disgusting and i have lost all faith in them, the last doctors (Pulmonary specialists) I spoke to try to give me antidepressants but they don’t seem to care about my lungs and am just giving up on traditional medicine at this point.
Every doctor I have been to see seems annoyed when they find out I have ground zero exposure, and they clam up and try their best to get me out of their office quickly.
Originally posted by jupiter869
I'm sick that after EIGHT years, there is still political infighting and maneuvering impeding the progress of the new WTC complex.
posted by samhouston1886
I have about 24 hours of exposure immediately after the event and
I worked in the area for 3 months.
For me it started in November of 2001 after fighting what seemed like a bad case of bronchitis, I started to wake up with a bone dry swollen tongue.
My uvula was and is still is very swollen and I started to "lose my energy".
I was diagnosed with an "unknown chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder I left NYC and the Department in 2003.
I have gained weight each year and I am more tired than ever, I have trouble sleeping at night because I feel like I am running out of breath.
The medical community has been disgusting and i have lost all faith in them, the last doctors (Pulmonary specialists) I spoke to try to give me antidepressants but they don’t seem to care about my lungs and am just giving up on traditional medicine at this point.
Every doctor I have been to see seems annoyed when they find out I have ground zero exposure, and they clam up and try their best to get me out of their office quickly.
I am having issues with what I think is Candida and I am trying to get past it and using probiotics has seemed to help with that but that lack of restful sleep has just worn me out.
There are currently 600 NYPD detectives, 50 FBI personnel and many members from the department of sanitation working tirelessly at Fresh Kills landfill. As well as Red Cross workers out on the site serving food and handing out supplies. These recovery workers need our support just as much the workers at Ground Zero. They are involved in the thankless effort of sorting through the debris to find any human remains of WTC victims. The environment is harsh and unpleasant. The ground in constantly muddy and it bubbles. They have to deal with not only the hazards of the WTC debris but also the pre-existing hazards of a garbage dump. . It is our mission to make sure every recovery worker one of those people is outfitted with the proper work equipment. All supplies are given directly into the hands of those in need.
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Seven years after the attacks of September the Eleventh, a global awakening has taken place, the likes of which the world has never seen. As the corporate-controlled media dwindles into extinction, a new breed of journalists and activists has emerged.
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Cancer Hits 283 Rescuers of 9-11
By SUSAN EDELMAN
Courtesy of New York Post
June 11, 2006 -- Since 9/11, 283 World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers have been diagnosed with cancer, and 33 of them have died of cancer, says a lawyer for the ailing responders.
David Worby, a lawyer for 8,000 World Trade Center responders, including cops, firefighters and construction workers, said the cases blood-cell cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's and myeloma.
Doctors say the cancers can strike three to five years after exposure to toxins such as benzene, a cancer-causing chemical that permeated the WTC site from burning jet fuel.
"One in 150,000 white males under 40 would normally get the type of acute white blood-cell cancer that strikes a healthy detective," said Worby, whose first client was NYPD narcotics cop John Walcott, now 41. Walcott spent months at Ground Zero and the Fresh Kills landfill. The father of three is fighting leukemia.
"We have nearly 35 of these cancers in the family of 50,000 Ground Zero workers. The odds of that occurring are one in hundreds of millions," Worby said.
Others suffer tumors of the tongue, throat, testicles, breast, bladder, kidney, colon, intestines, and lung, said Worby, of Worby, Groner, Edelman, & Napoli, Bern, which filed the class-action suit.
WTC workers who have died of cancer include paramedic Deborah Reeve, 41 (mesothelioma); NYPD Officer Ronald Weintraub, 43 (bile-duct cancer); and Stephen "Rak" Yurek, 46, a Port Authority emergency technician (brain cancer). The families say they were healthy before 9/11.
Dr. Robin Herbert, a director of WTC medical monitoring at Mount Sinai Hospital, said some of the nearly 16,000 responders screened to date are getting cancer.
"We do not know at this point if they are WTC-related, but some are unusual cancers we see as red flags," Herbert said.
Dr. Iris Udasin, principal investigator for the Mount Sinai screening of 500 in New Jersey, said the 9/11 link is "certainly a possibility," she said. "It's what we worry about, and what we fear."
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