I have had gulf war vets pass it on, too. However, I find that for the most part after 13 years everyone in that group has their own focus and they do not believe me. Doesn't matter that this 2-butoxyethanol and the complex version are clearly on the list that came out in Feb, 03: one of the Congressionally mandated books, this one on 'Solvents and Pesticides' the gulf war troops were exposed to. I posted 12/03 - 4/04 on gulfwarvets.com as 'Mother Margaret' until the main moderator said, "No, more; she was tired of hearing about how this chemical was such a perfect match" My overview www.valdezlink.com/gwv1-5.htm About December, 03 was when this lady found it for me 'on the list'
I don't think I would have EVER looked in their direction, except that March, 03 we had a new renter spouting off about how 'the gulf war syndrome' vets didn't trust the USA govt and that 150,000 had registered with the American Legion and that they were perplexed as to how the spouses and the children born before their deployment had also come down with 'the symptoms' www.valdezlink.com/wondering.htm
First thing I did was to look up these symptoms. Symptoms of Gulf War Illnesses
(according to the American Legion):
Chronic Fatigue
Signs and symptoms involving skin (including skin rashes and unusual hair loss)
Headache
Muscle pain
Neurological signs or symptoms (nervous system disorders which could manifest themselves in numbness in one's arms or legs, for instance)
Neuropsychological signs or symptoms (including memory loss)
Signs or symptoms involving upper or lower respiratory system
Sleep disturbances
Gastrointestinal signs or symptoms (including recurrent diarrhea and constipation)
Cardiovascular signs or symptoms
Menstrual disorders
My immediate response, "I RECOGNIZE THESE SYMPTOMS"
Then I started comparing how they cleaned up their oil spill at the end of the war. AND I did find some similarities. I sure wish I could find out something about THIS experiment:
"A small Texas company Alpha 30 Environmental had come from Austin to cleanse Saudi wetlands with its oil-eating microbes and a special biocatalyst to stimulate them. The Research Institute of King Fahd University set up experiments to test the technology and its after effects. Alpha was optimistic that it would soon win a test of its technology on a Saudi beach." This company seems to be non-existent.
Our EVOS experiment www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/experiment.htm and an overview www.valdezlink.com/1989photos.htm and www.valdezlink.com/valdez_evos_photos.htm You see, Exxon didn't want ANYONE taking pictures, so I thought I'd help out and repost those that I found.
www.valdezlink.com/intro.htm www.valdezlink.com/home.htm
There was a new discussion forum that started up this year who invited me to join. That was on May 9, 2004 - Mother's Day and the day I got kicked off the 'gulf war vets' forum. As time when on they allowed another category - HEALTH which has taken off
and one on the Environment, most recently www.ragereport.com/phpbb/nfphpbb/viewforum.php?f=106 Anyone is welcome to join, I hope you will. Whether they agree or not, they let me have my say, and I am very thankful to them.
Here is a list of my posts www.ragereport.com/phpbb/nfphpbb/search.php?search_author=Mother+Margaret Somewhere in there are some replies to the lady who started the Puget Sound Oil spill info (unless it was in the couple of posts I accidentally deleted last week)
Now I am hoping to get this information into the hands of doctors. As when there are too many immature red blood cells, this chemical goes unnoticed and other medical information as to the white blood cells and the liver, etc don't read right. I think it must fool even the CBC. Doctors think these are OK and they don't recognize the overall pattern of this chemical's harm, so is it any wonder that it gets by with hurting so many people. No one should give up their life & quality of life because they were hard working and took a job one day.
OSHA has recently looked into these, but I don't know what they concluded. How could they tell? www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/comments.htm They were probably looking at the high rate of prostate cancers or something, but my theory is that the proof of the harm of this chemical is the blood damage ... regardless of the odd assortment of symptoms that pile on top of it.