The major cause of cancer

[Guest guest]

,

After reading this report, along with so many others I have been reading on

the graves_support page I am sitting here open mouthed and absolutely

stunned...and angry.

In Novemeber my daughter turns 30, while in last stages of labor with her

they couldn't figure out why I wasn't dialating so they did X-rays to figure

it out...no answer just went a head with a C-section.

Her whole life has been plagued with unexplained illnesses, or illnesses

they had never seen in such a young person, they began at age 5. She has

been tired her whole life...I'm talking as a Sr. in HS she went to bed at 9

pm because she had to sleep. Even no as a mother of one and pregnant again,

working full time, she is in tears a lot from the fatigue. The dr. ran a

thyroid panel 4 years ago when I was diagnosed with GD and came up with no

thyroid problems. It is evident that she has *something* going on in her

body...but no one can figure it out. I am sitting here right now and

thinking that maybe/probably those " safe " X-rays 30 years ago when she was

in my womb have permanently damaged her immune system and I don't know what

to do

Just prior to being diagnosed with GD I was in a hospital being diagnosed

with double pneumonia, lung cancer, heart attack, pneumonia that only aids

patients get and finally congestive heart failure...I was in heart failure

which my current primary and I believe was caused by full blown thyroid

storm...which they NEVER diagnosed anything thyroid. After 8 days I signed

myself out of the hospital, came home and found a dr. here...but while I was

in for those 8 days...3/4 times A DAY...I was having chest X-rays...what am

I facing down the road now? What do I need to be watching for? When will I

begin seeing the affects of those X-Rays. I don't expect anyone to beable

to answer those questions for me, I just needed to ask them.

Thanks for sharing that report. You have given me so much to think

about.

Jody

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Hi you all,

The long paper below, might seem being out of track at a graves_support

board. But those considering RAI or already RAI'ed are corteously suggested

to read it carefully.

Some of the data it contains have sometimes been quoted at our atomicwomen

mailing-list and yahoo club. (links at the bottom).

Drs. Wood, and rigdway, in their book " Your thyroid a home

reference " , quote how over 2.000.000.- children and adolescents in USA were

given X-rays between 1920's and 1960's for problems like enlarged tonsils or

adenoids, birthmarks, whooping cough, acne and ringworm of the scalp.

They add: " " Subsequent large-scale studies of thyroid cancer frequency in

radiated and non radiated control groups have established beyond doubt the

relationship between radiation exposure and thyroid cancer " " .

________________________________

The Major Cause Of Cancer, Part 1

's Environment And Health Weekly #6913-21-00

When Wilhelm Roentgen first discovered X-rays, in 1895, " doctors and

physicians saw the practical potential of X-rays at once, and rushed to

experiment with them. " [1,pg.7] Many physicians built their own X-ray

equipment, with mixed results: some home-brew X-ray machines produced no

radiation whatsoever, others produced enough to irradiate everyone in the

next room.

The ability to see inside the human body for the first time was a marvelous,

mysterious and deeply provocative discovery. Roentgen trained X-rays on his

wife's hand for 15 minutes, producing a macabre image of the bones of her

hand adorned by her wedding ring. Roentgen's biographer, Otto Glasser, says

Mrs. Roentgen " could hardly believe that this bony hand was her own and

shuddered at the thought that she was seeing her skeleton. To Mrs. Roentgen,

as to many others later, this experience gave a vague premonition of death, "

Glasser wrote.[1,pg.4]

Within a year, by 1896, physicians were using X-rays for diagnosis and as a

new way of gathering evidence to protect themselves against malpractice

suits. Almost immediately -- during 1895-96 -- it also became clear that

X-rays could cause serious medical problems. Some physicians received burns

that wouldn't heal, requiring amputation of their fingers. Others developed

fatal cancers.

At that time, antibiotics had not yet been discovered, so physicians had

only a small number of treatments they could offer their patients; X-rays

gave them a range of new procedures that were very " high tech " -- bordering

on the miraculous -- and which seemed to hold out promise to the sick. Thus

the medical world embraced these mysterious, invisible rays with great

enthusiasm. Understandably, physicians at the time often thought they

observed therapeutic benefits where controlled experiments today find none.

At that time -- just prior to 1920 -- the editor of AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL

said " there are about 100 named diseases that yield favorably to X-ray

treatment. " In her informative history of the technology, MULTIPLE

EXPOSURES; CHRONICLES OF THE RADIATION AGE, Caufield (see REHW

#200, #201, #202), comments on this period: " Radiation treatment for benign

[non-cancer] diseases became a medical craze that lasted for 40 or more

years. " [1,pg.15] " ...[L]arge groups of people [were] needlessly irradiated

for such minor problems as ringworm and acne.... Many women had their

ovaries irradiated as a treatment for depression. " [1,pg.15] Such uses of

X-rays would today be viewed as quackery, but many of them were accepted

medical practice into the 1950s. Physicians weren't the only ones

enthusiastic about X-ray therapies. If you get a large enough dose of X-rays

your hair falls out, so " beauty shops installed X-ray equipment to remove

their customers' unwanted facial and body hair, " Caufield

reports.[1,pg.15]

Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895 led directly to Henri Becquerel's

discovery of the radioactivity of uranium in 1896 and then to the discovery

of radium by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre in 1898, for which Becquerel

and the Curies were jointly awarded the Nobel prize in 1903. (Twenty years

later Madame Curie would die of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.)

Soon radioactive radium was being prescribed by physicians alongside X-rays.

Radium treatments were prescribed for heart trouble, impotence, ulcers,

depression, arthritis, cancer, high blood pressure, blindness and

tuberculosis, among other ailments. Soon radioactive toothpaste was being

marketed, then radioactive skin cream. In Germany, chocolate bars containing

radium were sold as a " rejuvenator. " [1,pg.28] In the U.S, hundreds of

thousands of people began drinking bottled water laced with radium, as a

general elixir known popularly as " liquid sunshine. " As recently as 1952

LIFE magazine wrote about the beneficial effects of inhaling radioactive

radon gas in deep mines. Even today The Merry Widow Health Mine near Butte,

Montana and the Sunshine Radon Health Mine nearby advertise that visitors to

the mines report multiple benefits from inhaling radioactive radon,[2] even

though numerous studies now indicate that the only demonstrable health

effect of radon gas is lung cancer.

Thus the medical world and popular culture together embraced X-rays (and

other radioactive emanations) as miraculous remedies, gifts to humanity from

the foremost geniuses of an inventive age.

In the popular imagination, these technologies suffered a serious setback

when atomic bombs were detonated over Japan in 1945. Even though the A-bombs

arguably shortened WW II and saved American lives, Hersey's description

of the human devastation in HIROSHIMA forever imprinted the mushroom cloud

in the popular mind as an omen of unutterable ruin. Despite substantial

efforts to cast The Bomb in a positive light, radiation technology would

never recover the luster it had gained before WW II.

Seven years after A-bombs were used in war, Dwight Eisenhower set the U.S.

government on a new course, intended to show the world that nuclear weapons,

radioactivity and radiation were not harbingers of death but were in fact

powerful, benign servants offering almost-limitless benefits to humankind.

The " Atoms for Peace " program was born, explicitly aimed at convincing

Americans and the world that these new technologies were full of hope, and

that nuclear power reactors should be developed with tax dollars to generate

electricity. The promise of this newest technical advance seemed too good to

be true -- electricity " too cheap to meter. " [3]

The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 created the civilian Atomic Energy Commission

but as a practical matter the nation's top military commanders maintained

close control over the development of all nuclear technologies.[4]

Thus by a series of historical accidents, all of the major sources of

ionizing radiation fell under the purview of people and institutions who had

no reason to want to explore the early knowledge that radiation was harmful.

In 1927, Hermann J. Muller had demonstrated that X-rays caused inheritable

genetic damage, and he received a Nobel prize for his efforts. However, he

had performed his experiments on fruit flies and it was easy, or at least

convenient, to dismiss his findings as irrelevant to humans.

In sum, to physicians, radiation seemed a promising new therapy for treating

nearly every ailment under the sun; for the military and the Joint

Commmission on Atomic Energy in Congress it unleashed hundreds of billions

of dollars, a veritable flood of taxpayer funds, most of which came with

almost no oversight because of official secrecy surrounding weapons

development; and for private-sector government contractors like Union

Carbide, Monsanto Chemical Co., General Electric, Bechtel Corporation,

DuPont, Marietta and others -- it meant an opportunity to join the

elite " military-industrial complex " whose growing political power President

Eisenhower warned against in his final address to Congress in 1959.

Throughout the 1950s the military detonated A-bombs above-ground at the

Nevada Test Site, showering downwind civilian populations with

radioactivity.[5] At the Hanford Reservation in Washington state,

technicians intentionally released huge clouds of radioactivity to see what

would happen to the human populations thus exposed. In one Hanford

experiment 500,000 Curies of radioactive iodine were released; iodine

collects in the human thyroid gland. The victims of this experiment, mostly

Native Americans, were not told about it for 45 years.[6,pg.96] American

sailors on ships and soldiers on the ground were exposed to large doses of

radioactivity just to see what would happen to them. The military brass

insisted that being showered with radiation is harmless. In his

autobiography, Karl Z. , who served as radiation safety director at

the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Clinton, Tennessee) from 1944 to 1971,

recalls that, " The Veterans Administration seems always on the defensive to

make sure the victims are not compensated. " [6,pg.101] recounts the

story of D. erman, a Navy man who received large doses of

radiation during A-bomb experiments on Bikini Atoll in 1946. writes,

" The Veterans Administration denied any connection to radiation exposure

until 1988, when it had awarded his widow benefits. By the time of his

death, erman's body was almost consumed by cancers of the lung,

bronchial lymph nodes, diaphragm, spleen, pancreas, intestines, stomach,

liver, and adrenal glands. In 1989, a year after it had awarded the

benefits, the VA revoked them from erman's widow. " [6,pg.101]

Starting in the 1940s and continuing into the 1960s, thousands of uranium

miners were told that breathing radon gas in the uranium mines of New Mexico

was perfectly safe. Only now are the radon-caused lung cancers being tallied

up, as the truth leaks out 50 years too late.

In retrospect, a kind of nuclear mania swept the industrial world. What

biotechnology and high-tech computers are today, atomic technology was in

the 1950s and early 1960s. Government contractors spent billions to develop

a nuclear-powered airplane -- even though simple engineering calculations

told them early in the project that such a plane would be too heavy to carry

a useful cargo.[4,pg.204] Monsanto Research Corporation proposed a

plutonium-powered coffee pot that would boil water for 100 years without a

refueling.[4,pg.227] A Boston company proposed cufflinks made of radioactive

uranium for the simple reason that uranium is heavier than lead and " the

unusual weight prevents cuffs from riding up. " [4,pg.227]

In 1957, the Atomic Energy Commission established its Plowshare Division --

named of course for the Biblical " swords into plowshares " phrasing in Isaiah

(2:4).[4,pg.231] Our government and its industrial partners were determined

to show the world that this technology was benign, no matter what the facts

might be. On July 14, 1958, Dr. Teller, the father of the H-bomb,

arrived in Alaska to announce Project Chariot, a plan to carve a new harbor

out of the Alaska coast by detonating up to six H-bombs. After a tremendous

political fight -- documented in Dan O'Neill's book, THE FIRECRACKER BOYS[7]

-- the plan was shelved. Another plan was developed to blast a new canal

across Central America with atomic bombs, simply to give the U.S. some

leverage in negotiating with Panama over control of the Panama Canal. That

plan, too, was scrapped. In 1967, an A-bomb was detonated underground in New

Mexico, to release natural gas trapped in shale rock formations. Trapped gas

was in fact released, but -- as the project's engineers should have been

able to predict -- the gas turned out to be radioactive so the hole in the

ground was plugged and a bronze plaque in the desert is all that remains

visible of Project Gasbuggy.[4,pg.236]

In sum, according to NEW YORK TIMES columnist H. Metzger, the Atomic

Energy Commission wasted billions of dollars on " crackpot schemes, " all for

the purpose of proving that nuclear technology is beneficial and not in any

way harmful.[4,pg.237]

The Plowshare Division may have been a complete failure, but one lasting

result emerged from all these efforts: A powerful culture of denial sunk

deep roots into the heart of scientific and industrial America.

[To be continued April 13.]

Descriptor terms: radiation; nuclear weapons; nuclear power; x-rays; cancer;

carcinogens; karl z. morgan; downwinders; nevada test site; hanford;

============== [1] Caufield, MULTIPLE EXPOSURES; CHRONICLES OF THE

RADIATION AGE (New York: Harper & Row, 1989). ISBN 0-06-015900-6.

[2] Jim Robbins, " Camping Out in the Merry Widow Mine, " HIGH COUNTRY NEWS

Vol. 26, No. 12 (June 27, 1994), pgs. unknown. See

http://www.hcn.org/1994/jun27/dir/reporters.html. And see

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/MTBASradon.html

[3] Arjun Makhijani and Saleska, THE NUCLEAR POWER DECEPTION; U.S.

NUCLEAR MYTHOLOGY FROM ELECTRICITY " TOO CHEAP TO METER " TO " INHERENTLY SAFE "

REACTORS (New York: The Apex Press, 1999). ISBN 0-945257-75-9.

[4] H. Metzger, THE ATOMIC ESTABLISHMENT (New York: Simon & Schuster,

1972). ISBN 671-21351-2.

[5] D', ATOMIC HARVEST (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993).

ISBN 0-517-58981-8. And: Chip Ward, Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in

the West (New York: Verso, 1999). ISBN 1859847501.

[6] Karl Z. and Ken M. , THE ANGRY GENIE; ONE MAN'S WALK

THROUGH THE NUCLEAR AGE (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press,

1999). ISBN 0-8061-3122-5.

[7] Dan O'Neill, THE FIRECRACKER BOYS (New York: St. 's Press, 1994).

ISBN 0-312-13416-9.

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e,

It is food for thought and something to pass on to her. Is there a specific

blood test that can be done to determine CFS? My daughter started out at

age 5 with tonsilitis...they removed tonsils and adnoids...at 6 1/2 she had

mono...she was home tutored for 12 weeks. Two months after school let out I

took her to the ER because she spiked a fever of 104.6, they made us sit in

the waiting room even after she started vomiting blood (not great quanities)

from 7 in the evening until 2 a.m. at which time they got us into a room,

did CBC and differentials...ER dr. came in said " Your daughters got

leukemia, take her home and call Buffalo Childrens in the morning, it will

take you 2/3 weeks to get in " I will NEVER forget those words. Needless to

say we were out there the next morning, she went through all the tests for

leukemia and others. What she ended up with is a name I can not remember

though it was a complication of the mono she had and affected her spleen and

liver. Until she hit puberty we had to have blood work every week. So I

am not sure it is CFS with this history.

Actually she started sleeping all night at 15 days old and required a lot of

sleep her whole life.

I can't help but wonder if the X-rays I had during labor damaged her thyroid

possibly causing hypothyroidism or Hashimotos. She was tested for the GD

antibodies but not Hashimotos. The big problem right now is trying to reach

her and get her to please go and be tested again. She just comes back with

" Mom, just because YOU have GD doesn't mean everyone else does " and she

refuses it...just is frustrating. But the report on the X-rays just has me

really thinking and worrying because as she is pregnant again with her

second child I can't help but wonder what is instore. This pregnancy is

plagued with problems (though her OBGYN is WONDERFUL, sees her every week

since the beginning of her pregnancy.) and seems to be following the same

road my second pregnancy did which ended up with an abruption and the death

of our youngest daughter shortly after birth.

Learning all that I am now makes me wish I had learned it all YEARS

ago...but we all have 20/20 hindsight and it isn't going to fix anything or

change anything...I just want to reach her NOW so she doesn't follow the

road I went down.

Thanks all for letting me get my worries out, didn't mean for this to be so

long...and thanks e for the suggestion...if you do know of a test for

CFS please let me know.

*HUGZ* to all

Jody

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My dear Jody,

I deeply regret all health problems your daughter and you had and are

having. Sometimes I hate to share this kind of information. But, on the

other hand, and since I have known by myself what a little amount of RAI did

to my body, I feel committed to spread the word. Not only for ourselves but

for our children's children, or grandchildren, who might have to assume the

worst part.

I'm appalled when I see how naively and easily is RAI prescribed to people

-specially and regretfully in the USA- without giving them information,

neither on this treatment, nor or other less invasive treatments.

Knowledge is power, and the best we can do as patients and as human beings

is to try to search the most and the best information we can. This way our

decissions will be wiser. And our body -and our children's- will appreciate

it.

Anything you could -hypothetically- pass to yr daughter, has not been your

fault. Perhaps niether your doctor's fault...

Only missinformation, or dis-information.

Not so long ago, blood letting and leaches were considered 'good

treatments'. The radium 'crazy' let do several quack cures causing a lot of

harm to many people.

I actually believe RAI-131 as a treatment for Graves' will join this " quack

radium cures museum " . (You may have a look, if you wish, at

http://www.geocities.com/ibayoa).

Thanks for reading. I'm so sorry you and your daughter are having so many

problems. Perhaps an approach to alternative methods, and very healthy whole

food diet would help your bodies in the healing process.

I wish you feel better soon.

Take care.

______________

>

>Reply-To: graves_supportonelist

>To: graves_supportonelist

>Subject: Re: The major cause of cancer

>Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:32:34 EST

>

>,

>After reading this report, along with so many others I have been reading on

>the graves_support page I am sitting here open mouthed and absolutely

>stunned...and angry.

>

>In Novemeber my daughter turns 30, while in last stages of labor with her

>they couldn't figure out why I wasn't dialating so they did X-rays to

>figure

>it out...no answer just went a head with a C-section.

>

>Her whole life has been plagued with unexplained illnesses, or illnesses

>they had never seen in such a young person, they began at age 5. She has

>been tired her whole life...I'm talking as a Sr. in HS she went to bed at 9

>pm because she had to sleep. Even no as a mother of one and pregnant

>again,

>working full time, she is in tears a lot from the fatigue. The dr. ran a

>thyroid panel 4 years ago when I was diagnosed with GD and came up with no

>thyroid problems. It is evident that she has *something* going on in her

>body...but no one can figure it out. I am sitting here right now and

>thinking that maybe/probably those " safe " X-rays 30 years ago when she was

>in my womb have permanently damaged her immune system and I don't know what

>to do

>

>Just prior to being diagnosed with GD I was in a hospital being diagnosed

>with double pneumonia, lung cancer, heart attack, pneumonia that only aids

>patients get and finally congestive heart failure...I was in heart failure

>which my current primary and I believe was caused by full blown thyroid

>storm...which they NEVER diagnosed anything thyroid. After 8 days I signed

>myself out of the hospital, came home and found a dr. here...but while I

>was

>in for those 8 days...3/4 times A DAY...I was having chest X-rays...what am

>I facing down the road now? What do I need to be watching for? When will

>I

>begin seeing the affects of those X-Rays. I don't expect anyone to beable

>to answer those questions for me, I just needed to ask them.

>

>Thanks for sharing that report. You have given me so much to think

>about.

>Jody

>______________________________________________________

>Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

>

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[Guest guest]

My dear Jody,

I deeply regret all health problems your daughter and you had and are

having. Sometimes I hate to share this kind of information. But, on the

other hand, and since I have known by myself what a little amount of RAI did

to my body, I feel committed to spread the word. Not only for ourselves but

for our children's children, or grandchildren, who might have to assume the

worst part.

I'm appalled when I see how naively and easily is RAI prescribed to people

-specially and regretfully in the USA- without giving them information,

neither on this treatment, nor or other less invasive treatments.

Knowledge is power, and the best we can do as patients and as human beings

is to try to search the most and the best information we can. This way our

decissions will be wiser. And our body -and our children's- will appreciate

it.

Anything you could -hypothetically- pass to yr daughter, has not been your

fault. Perhaps niether your doctor's fault...

Only missinformation, or dis-information.

Not so long ago, blood letting and leaches were considered 'good

treatments'. The radium 'crazy' let do several quack cures causing a lot of

harm to many people.

I actually believe RAI-131 as a treatment for Graves' will join this " quack

radium cures museum " . (You may have a look, if you wish, at

http://www.geocities.com/ibayoa).

Thanks for reading. I'm so sorry you and your daughter are having so many

problems. Perhaps an approach to alternative methods, and very healthy whole

food diet would help your bodies in the healing process.

I wish you feel better soon.

Take care.

______________

>

>Reply-To: graves_supportonelist

>To: graves_supportonelist

>Subject: Re: The major cause of cancer

>Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:32:34 EST

>

>,

>After reading this report, along with so many others I have been reading on

>the graves_support page I am sitting here open mouthed and absolutely

>stunned...and angry.

>

>In Novemeber my daughter turns 30, while in last stages of labor with her

>they couldn't figure out why I wasn't dialating so they did X-rays to

>figure

>it out...no answer just went a head with a C-section.

>

>Her whole life has been plagued with unexplained illnesses, or illnesses

>they had never seen in such a young person, they began at age 5. She has

>been tired her whole life...I'm talking as a Sr. in HS she went to bed at 9

>pm because she had to sleep. Even no as a mother of one and pregnant

>again,

>working full time, she is in tears a lot from the fatigue. The dr. ran a

>thyroid panel 4 years ago when I was diagnosed with GD and came up with no

>thyroid problems. It is evident that she has *something* going on in her

>body...but no one can figure it out. I am sitting here right now and

>thinking that maybe/probably those " safe " X-rays 30 years ago when she was

>in my womb have permanently damaged her immune system and I don't know what

>to do

>

>Just prior to being diagnosed with GD I was in a hospital being diagnosed

>with double pneumonia, lung cancer, heart attack, pneumonia that only aids

>patients get and finally congestive heart failure...I was in heart failure

>which my current primary and I believe was caused by full blown thyroid

>storm...which they NEVER diagnosed anything thyroid. After 8 days I signed

>myself out of the hospital, came home and found a dr. here...but while I

>was

>in for those 8 days...3/4 times A DAY...I was having chest X-rays...what am

>I facing down the road now? What do I need to be watching for? When will

>I

>begin seeing the affects of those X-Rays. I don't expect anyone to beable

>to answer those questions for me, I just needed to ask them.

>

>Thanks for sharing that report. You have given me so much to think

>about.

>Jody

>______________________________________________________

>Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

>

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[Guest guest]

My dear Jody,

I deeply regret all health problems your daughter and you had and are

having. Sometimes I hate to share this kind of information. But, on the

other hand, and since I have known by myself what a little amount of RAI did

to my body, I feel committed to spread the word. Not only for ourselves but

for our children's children, or grandchildren, who might have to assume the

worst part.

I'm appalled when I see how naively and easily is RAI prescribed to people

-specially and regretfully in the USA- without giving them information,

neither on this treatment, nor or other less invasive treatments.

Knowledge is power, and the best we can do as patients and as human beings

is to try to search the most and the best information we can. This way our

decissions will be wiser. And our body -and our children's- will appreciate

it.

Anything you could -hypothetically- pass to yr daughter, has not been your

fault. Perhaps niether your doctor's fault...

Only missinformation, or dis-information.

Not so long ago, blood letting and leaches were considered 'good

treatments'. The radium 'crazy' let do several quack cures causing a lot of

harm to many people.

I actually believe RAI-131 as a treatment for Graves' will join this " quack

radium cures museum " . (You may have a look, if you wish, at

http://www.geocities.com/ibayoa).

Thanks for reading. I'm so sorry you and your daughter are having so many

problems. Perhaps an approach to alternative methods, and very healthy whole

food diet would help your bodies in the healing process.

I wish you feel better soon.

Take care.

______________

>

>Reply-To: graves_supportonelist

>To: graves_supportonelist

>Subject: Re: The major cause of cancer

>Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:32:34 EST

>

>,

>After reading this report, along with so many others I have been reading on

>the graves_support page I am sitting here open mouthed and absolutely

>stunned...and angry.

>

>In Novemeber my daughter turns 30, while in last stages of labor with her

>they couldn't figure out why I wasn't dialating so they did X-rays to

>figure

>it out...no answer just went a head with a C-section.

>

>Her whole life has been plagued with unexplained illnesses, or illnesses

>they had never seen in such a young person, they began at age 5. She has

>been tired her whole life...I'm talking as a Sr. in HS she went to bed at 9

>pm because she had to sleep. Even no as a mother of one and pregnant

>again,

>working full time, she is in tears a lot from the fatigue. The dr. ran a

>thyroid panel 4 years ago when I was diagnosed with GD and came up with no

>thyroid problems. It is evident that she has *something* going on in her

>body...but no one can figure it out. I am sitting here right now and

>thinking that maybe/probably those " safe " X-rays 30 years ago when she was

>in my womb have permanently damaged her immune system and I don't know what

>to do

>

>Just prior to being diagnosed with GD I was in a hospital being diagnosed

>with double pneumonia, lung cancer, heart attack, pneumonia that only aids

>patients get and finally congestive heart failure...I was in heart failure

>which my current primary and I believe was caused by full blown thyroid

>storm...which they NEVER diagnosed anything thyroid. After 8 days I signed

>myself out of the hospital, came home and found a dr. here...but while I

>was

>in for those 8 days...3/4 times A DAY...I was having chest X-rays...what am

>I facing down the road now? What do I need to be watching for? When will

>I

>begin seeing the affects of those X-Rays. I don't expect anyone to beable

>to answer those questions for me, I just needed to ask them.

>

>Thanks for sharing that report. You have given me so much to think

>about.

>Jody

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Jody,

Your story of your daughter made me think of something. My sister was

telling me the story of a male friend of hers that has been diagnosed with

" Chronic Fatigue Syndrome " (Wilkes Barre Virus). A couple of years ago he

had pneumonia and with the pnemumonia he contracted some kind of virus that

caused the Wilkes-Barre. You said something about yourself having

pneumonia. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Wilkes-Barre) is thought to be caused

by a virus. This virus is believed to attack your immune system. I was

just wondering if something like that could have been passed on to your

daughter.

It's just a thought!

e

Re: The major cause of cancer

>

>

> ,

> After reading this report, along with so many others I have been reading

on

> the graves_support page I am sitting here open mouthed and absolutely

> stunned...and angry.

>

> In Novemeber my daughter turns 30, while in last stages of labor with her

> they couldn't figure out why I wasn't dialating so they did X-rays to

figure

> it out...no answer just went a head with a C-section.

>

> Her whole life has been plagued with unexplained illnesses, or illnesses

> they had never seen in such a young person, they began at age 5. She has

> been tired her whole life...I'm talking as a Sr. in HS she went to bed at

9

> pm because she had to sleep. Even no as a mother of one and pregnant

again,

> working full time, she is in tears a lot from the fatigue. The dr. ran a

> thyroid panel 4 years ago when I was diagnosed with GD and came up with no

> thyroid problems. It is evident that she has *something* going on in her

> body...but no one can figure it out. I am sitting here right now and

> thinking that maybe/probably those " safe " X-rays 30 years ago when she was

> in my womb have permanently damaged her immune system and I don't know

what

> to do

>

> Just prior to being diagnosed with GD I was in a hospital being diagnosed

> with double pneumonia, lung cancer, heart attack, pneumonia that only aids

> patients get and finally congestive heart failure...I was in heart failure

> which my current primary and I believe was caused by full blown thyroid

> storm...which they NEVER diagnosed anything thyroid. After 8 days I

signed

> myself out of the hospital, came home and found a dr. here...but while I

was

> in for those 8 days...3/4 times A DAY...I was having chest X-rays...what

am

> I facing down the road now? What do I need to be watching for? When will

I

> begin seeing the affects of those X-Rays. I don't expect anyone to

beable

> to answer those questions for me, I just needed to ask them.

>

> Thanks for sharing that report. You have given me so much to think

> about.

> Jody

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,

Please don't ever be hesitant to share the information you gain. I wouldn't

be a memeber of this group and reading all of the other information

regarding GD, testing, mistakes etc. if I were not meant to be here now...I

must be ready or I wouldn't have found this place when I did.

I have this philosphy that everything in our lives happens for a reason,

that everything we go through, learn, share happens in the time frame it is

suppose to happen. I believe that all of us coming together at this time in

our lives is the way it is suppose to be. That the road we are all traveling

down together now will lead us somewhere...and even though I still sometimes

question the whys and wherefores I know in my heart and mind it will be

where it is suppose to be at that moment in time. Like I said, my beliefs

are not for everyone, but they have helped me in so many areas of my life

that without them I don't believe I would have survived.

My sister does JSJ (Jin Shin Jujitsu) and Craneal (sp?) something, it

escapes me exactly what that is at the moment. She is very much into

alternative therapies in conjucntion with traditional treatment...she does

have a background in the medical field after 27 years working in the lab at

a couple of hospitals...back in the days when the lab tech did it

all...drawing, processing and reading the tests. Anyhow, am getting off the

track I wanted to start on...we got together for lunch on Monday and were

talking about all that I am learning and what she has/is learning and she

recommended a book to me that I have ordered called " Anatomy of the Spirit "

by Carolyn Myss, she drew me a diagram that blew me away...almost EVERY

shockra except for the 1st and 7th ones are inline with our endrocrine

system...so this is another new road for me to explore and learn about.

Have you read this book by chance?

Okay, enough I am beginning to ramble...but was curious whether you or

anyone else in this group has read this book and noticed how it all ties

together from a spiritual point as well.

*HUGZ*

Jody

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