shoemaker's email - magic cut off ...?

[Guest guest]

does anyone know what shoemaker means by the " magic cut off of 6

months "

--- In , " jill1313 " <jenbooks13@...>

wrote:

>

> This is very upsetting.

> If he sends you the excel file and you can summarize it would be

much

> appreciated.

>

> To the other poster, who wishes to sleep outside, perhaps you could

> also considering a used oxygen concentrator and sleeping with it on

> low flow through the night (you don't want to overdose on oxygen).

> This might help?

>

> --- In , " tigerpaw2c " <tigerpaw2c@>

wrote:

> >

> > From: Ritchie Shoemaker

> > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:45 PM

> > Subject: St. Bernard Parish

> > It is free for distribution

> >

> > I recently returned from 4 days of testing fireman, homeless

adults,

> > homeless children, Parish government employees and control

patients

> > from one of the worst affected of the areas surrounding New

> > Orleans. To think New Orleans is safe for its citizenry to

return

> > is illogical. Having a few square miles of high, dry area in

the

> > French Quarter does not mean NO is ready for re-occupation. The

> > incredible toxin burden these people face is unbelievable.

> >

> > I have an Excel that summarizes our initial data analysis that I

> > would be happy to attach to an email if someone would like a

copy.

> >

> > We worked in St. Bernard Parish. It comprises 2100 sq miles of

> > previously lush lowland and wetlands; it was covered by 8-15

feet of

> > salt water for over three weeks. I saw a couple of egrets, a

few

> > pelicans, a few daffodils coming up and a red maple leafing out,

but

> > most of the life as anyone would know it is gone.

> >

> > FEMA and Homeland Security approved my visit before the fact,

but

> > after NO Channel 6 and the NO Times Picayune ran pieces on

sickened

> > patients documented at my site, FEMA at first threatened to

arrest

> > me and then demanded that all the physicians on board the Scotia

> > Prince boat (provides safety, shelter, bathroom, showers and

three

> > meals daily for 1000 people) who saw my clinic abandon the boat

and

> > go to another. My clinic at the USPHS site was cancelled. If

it

> > weren't for the protection provided by state Homeland Security

> > representative, I don't know where I would be now.

> >

> > With over 60% of patients sickened in a catchments area of over

> > 1,000,000 people, which projections of our numbers predict, one

must

> > wonder how many people will go beyond the " magic cut-off " of 6

> > months of mold illness without treatment.

> >

> > The blatant disregard for what we know about mold illness, with

a

> > concomitant ongoing occurrence of treatable illness, like what

is

> > also disregarded about other syndromes, like Gulf War and Lyme,

> > remains a national disgrace.

> >

> > Ritchie C. Shoemaker MD

> >

>

[Guest guest]

My guess is that when you go beyond six months without treatment in a moldy

environment, that is when you start seeing irreversible bad effects on your

health..

That jibes pretty well with my experiences.

Experiencing a rapid decline in your health and then limping back to health,

over a space of years, but noticing things that never go back to the way

they were - is terrifying.