http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130618/what-sickens-people-oil-spills-and-how-badly-anybodys-guess
We saw many of my symptoms once you get into the article. Very informative.
The fight of small group of people in Northern Michigan against the oil and gas industry. All we want is it done safely and know the health hazards! Ah, the dreaded pink tape. Just two women who health has been so drastically changed since 2003 fighting the big boys and educating those who want to be educated and even those who don't.
Showing posts with label chemical sensitivity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chemical sensitivity. Show all posts
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
THIS COULD HAPPEN TO US, BETTER READ AND SHARE
THIS COULD HAPPEN TO US
Video
http://www.kens5.com/on-tv/kens-reporters/joe-conger/We-want-out-of-here-Residents-blame-ailments-on-oil-field-toxins-206688131.html
KARNES CITY -- Like beacons, the flares in Karnes County draw attention
to one of the biggest and most profitable oil and gas finds in the
world. Under the light belching from the towers, Mike Cerny takes a puff
of medicine in what is now an empty inhaler.
Cerny and his wife say the inhalers and medicines the family takes now eclipse the royalties their property earns from fracking.
“When you see your son with up to three nosebleeds a day, something’s wrong with this picture,” Myra Cerny said.
At first, she thought it was “time” that was taking its toll on their bodies.
“But it was coming on too fast, the symptoms," Cerny said. "And others the same age -- I have a twin sister -- aren’t sharing the same problems.”
But with every bit of gas and oil being extracted, the family noticed changes in their health. The flares are supposed to burn off unwanted gases, but the family noticed clouds of black smoke erupting with the flames.
“We are totally surrounded," Cerny said. "And no matter which way the wind blows, we’re getting downdraft from one or the other."
Worried, the Cernys contacted the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
In August and September, investigators with the TCEQ visited two units near their home. The leaking hydrocarbons are invisible to the naked eye, but are picked up as black smoke with the TCEQ’s infrared cameras.
The Cernys said their fears were realized when the TCEQ found the operator, Marathon Oil, was out of compliance.
“When they’re burning black and not operating right, like we’ve seen here, you have up to 250- pollutants raining down on your head," Cerny said.
According to TCEQ documents, methane, propane, butane, and hydrogen sulfides were in the noxious mix. The benzene emissions alone were reportedly four times over the legal limit.
The Cernys said it was the exposure to Benzene -— a known cancer-causing compound -— that matched their symptoms.
“That’s when we put things together. Well, that’s everything going on with our health. And we knew it was surrounding us,” Cerny said.
“Once you inhale it, your liver picks it up. And it is really what happens in the body that makes it carcinogenic,” said Dr. Andrew Brenner, a neurooncologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
He said chronic, long-term benzene exposure is dangerous and can lead to blood cancers.
“People get leukemias, or you can have damage to your stem cells and their bone marrow. That results in an inability to make their own blood cells,” he said.
The Cernys said they’re breathing that air around their home 24 hours a day. Now the family worries about their growing boy, Cameron.
“It’s like a CSI episode: You picture the chemical going in their fragile lungs and what it is doing to their body. And you wonder, 'How much longer do they have?'”
The TCEQ made two recommendations to Marathon Oil: the company installs an alarm or monitor to make sure the flare is working properly, and that Marathon reports emissions problems within 24 hours.
The oil company received no fines from the state agency.
“We want out of here,” Mike Cerny said.
The Cernys said they are not alone in their suffering.
However, other nearby residents were reluctant to come forward, telling KENS 5 they have family working the oil and gas fields. Complaining, they said, could cost them their jobs.
The Cernys believe the industry may have already cost them their health.
“Death,” said Mike and Myra Cerny simultaneously.
“That’s all I can think. Death,” the worried mother said. “Seeing our son die maybe before us. That’s all you can think.”
Cerny and his wife say the inhalers and medicines the family takes now eclipse the royalties their property earns from fracking.
“When you see your son with up to three nosebleeds a day, something’s wrong with this picture,” Myra Cerny said.
At first, she thought it was “time” that was taking its toll on their bodies.
“But it was coming on too fast, the symptoms," Cerny said. "And others the same age -- I have a twin sister -- aren’t sharing the same problems.”
But with every bit of gas and oil being extracted, the family noticed changes in their health. The flares are supposed to burn off unwanted gases, but the family noticed clouds of black smoke erupting with the flames.
“We are totally surrounded," Cerny said. "And no matter which way the wind blows, we’re getting downdraft from one or the other."
Worried, the Cernys contacted the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
In August and September, investigators with the TCEQ visited two units near their home. The leaking hydrocarbons are invisible to the naked eye, but are picked up as black smoke with the TCEQ’s infrared cameras.
The Cernys said their fears were realized when the TCEQ found the operator, Marathon Oil, was out of compliance.
“When they’re burning black and not operating right, like we’ve seen here, you have up to 250- pollutants raining down on your head," Cerny said.
According to TCEQ documents, methane, propane, butane, and hydrogen sulfides were in the noxious mix. The benzene emissions alone were reportedly four times over the legal limit.
The Cernys said it was the exposure to Benzene -— a known cancer-causing compound -— that matched their symptoms.
“That’s when we put things together. Well, that’s everything going on with our health. And we knew it was surrounding us,” Cerny said.
“Once you inhale it, your liver picks it up. And it is really what happens in the body that makes it carcinogenic,” said Dr. Andrew Brenner, a neurooncologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
He said chronic, long-term benzene exposure is dangerous and can lead to blood cancers.
“People get leukemias, or you can have damage to your stem cells and their bone marrow. That results in an inability to make their own blood cells,” he said.
The Cernys said they’re breathing that air around their home 24 hours a day. Now the family worries about their growing boy, Cameron.
“It’s like a CSI episode: You picture the chemical going in their fragile lungs and what it is doing to their body. And you wonder, 'How much longer do they have?'”
The TCEQ made two recommendations to Marathon Oil: the company installs an alarm or monitor to make sure the flare is working properly, and that Marathon reports emissions problems within 24 hours.
The oil company received no fines from the state agency.
“We want out of here,” Mike Cerny said.
The Cernys said they are not alone in their suffering.
However, other nearby residents were reluctant to come forward, telling KENS 5 they have family working the oil and gas fields. Complaining, they said, could cost them their jobs.
The Cernys believe the industry may have already cost them their health.
“Death,” said Mike and Myra Cerny simultaneously.
“That’s all I can think. Death,” the worried mother said. “Seeing our son die maybe before us. That’s all you can think.”
Sunday, March 18, 2012
What we have to put up with also........
http://oilandgasinnorthernmichigan.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-we-have-to-put-up-with-also.html
I had to go to the Emergency Room in my town of Cheboygan. It is into bankruptcy and had a scare of a closure but I guess someone else is going to buy them. They had already shut down OB/Peds, Intensive Care and many other things they offered. They plan (I hear) to keep the ER open but have a few beds for observation for 23 hours and then ship patient to Petoskey, larger town. I feel bad for all of those working there. We have family working there and we are so worried for them. Well, this was my experience on March 17, my chronic myofascial pain, fibromyalgia other bone and muscle problems. I DON'T go to ANY ER unless I am at the end of my rope. My chiropractor friend and even my doctor insisted I go to the hospital. My friend said I was too exhausted from fighting severe pain for almost 2 weeks. She assured me I would be treated right, my doctor's nurse assured me he understood my hesitation but thought my body needed a break. I waited until the next day.
THAT BE TOLD HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED. I was told it was in my head, couldn't believe an industry would do what it had done to my small town of Lewiston. The doctor sat down, crossed his legs and looked like he was staying a while. He then tried to psychoanalyze me. Wrong thing to do, I could far psychoanalyze him through my life experiences.
Thank God Joe was right there with me and had had enough of the "interrogation" I was in no shape to take. Joe's ex wife had been exposed to floor wax stripper when she worked at the Hospital years ago and that doctor remembered it. Once he realized, I think, that he could no longer bully me-in the nice, professional way they try to-my care was finally addressed.
I know what I need when I get to that point I should not have had to get to. Severe pain is stressful on the body and unnecessary these days but it still happens.
They are good people at that hospital. I wish the doctor's would educate themselves and make the job easier for the nurses, PA's or whoever works with them. Your ignorance only shows by not listening to your patient. Listen to me, I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE BUT AS LONG AS I MADE THE DECISION AFTER HOURS OR DAYS OF SUFFERING PLEASE HELP ME. I'm sure it was written clearly on my face. I can't hide my "bad days" very well. My friends and family know that.
IN THE END, NOT ALL OF PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC, DEBILITATING, OUT OF CONTROL PAIN EXACERBATION IS A DRUG ADDICT. Look at their eyes, eyes
will give all away usually.
We don't want to lose our hospital so let's show them how good you are and save yourselves and the community. You have given excellent care most of the time, don't let the ER doctor make all of you look bad, help your patient communicate with the doctor. The nurse has to be their patients advocate. Someone has to........
After some criticism, the ER personnel have kind hearts, just help us when we can't help ourselves at the time.
I had to go to the Emergency Room in my town of Cheboygan. It is into bankruptcy and had a scare of a closure but I guess someone else is going to buy them. They had already shut down OB/Peds, Intensive Care and many other things they offered. They plan (I hear) to keep the ER open but have a few beds for observation for 23 hours and then ship patient to Petoskey, larger town. I feel bad for all of those working there. We have family working there and we are so worried for them. Well, this was my experience on March 17, my chronic myofascial pain, fibromyalgia other bone and muscle problems. I DON'T go to ANY ER unless I am at the end of my rope. My chiropractor friend and even my doctor insisted I go to the hospital. My friend said I was too exhausted from fighting severe pain for almost 2 weeks. She assured me I would be treated right, my doctor's nurse assured me he understood my hesitation but thought my body needed a break. I waited until the next day.
THAT BE TOLD HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED. I was told it was in my head, couldn't believe an industry would do what it had done to my small town of Lewiston. The doctor sat down, crossed his legs and looked like he was staying a while. He then tried to psychoanalyze me. Wrong thing to do, I could far psychoanalyze him through my life experiences.
Thank God Joe was right there with me and had had enough of the "interrogation" I was in no shape to take. Joe's ex wife had been exposed to floor wax stripper when she worked at the Hospital years ago and that doctor remembered it. Once he realized, I think, that he could no longer bully me-in the nice, professional way they try to-my care was finally addressed.
I know what I need when I get to that point I should not have had to get to. Severe pain is stressful on the body and unnecessary these days but it still happens.
They are good people at that hospital. I wish the doctor's would educate themselves and make the job easier for the nurses, PA's or whoever works with them. Your ignorance only shows by not listening to your patient. Listen to me, I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE BUT AS LONG AS I MADE THE DECISION AFTER HOURS OR DAYS OF SUFFERING PLEASE HELP ME. I'm sure it was written clearly on my face. I can't hide my "bad days" very well. My friends and family know that.
IN THE END, NOT ALL OF PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC, DEBILITATING, OUT OF CONTROL PAIN EXACERBATION IS A DRUG ADDICT. Look at their eyes, eyes
will give all away usually.
We don't want to lose our hospital so let's show them how good you are and save yourselves and the community. You have given excellent care most of the time, don't let the ER doctor make all of you look bad, help your patient communicate with the doctor. The nurse has to be their patients advocate. Someone has to........
After some criticism, the ER personnel have kind hearts, just help us when we can't help ourselves at the time.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Darn gas wells and forever fighting the health problems
I am so mad I could spit!!! You go to the doctor not expecting to be made worse by poor education by cleaning crews. OH! I went into the bathroom, there was no yellow cone outside the bathroom saying it was being cleaned and walked in floor wet, yellow cone inside the bathroom and chemical smell ......Joe found me and got a wheelchair and I got names to complain to as well as my incident report. Oh, I will go to the top with this and I will educate them on chemically sensitive people! There goes the next few days Damn! Even had my paper mask on with the big mask in the car. Never had a problem here before. Burns Clinic in Petoskey, you will know me personally!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jaime Chimner
Cheboygan, MI
Jaime Chimner
Cheboygan, MI
Monday, August 30, 2010
GREAT LAKES WATER EXPERIENCE
Here is a website if you didn't get it before about Michigan
http://www.watershedcouncil.org/learn/hydraulic-fracturing/
Thought I would share my stupidity.
I went snorkeling in the local water, well.... Lake Huron. Knew this might cause me a problem but I really wanted to do it. It's on my bucket list-things you want to do before you die (it was a movie). Put on my wet suit (made of material I shouldn't have been wearing) put that plastic mask on my face and snorkel in my mouth. Hubby Joe told me to get down in the 2 feet water, spit in my mask (yuk) then rinse it out and it won't fog up. It worked but yuk lol.
It was so neat to see underwater like that, staring eye to eye with a gobe (not sure of the spelling) but it is an intrusive species in the lakes.
The area was an old saw mill, ohoh, and lots of coal bearied in the bed, ohohoh. So far so good. Well....got back out of the lake and noticed a browish, reddish water coming off of something we had. Figured it was his leather shoes (yes he wore them in the water). Come to find out a morning later it was my hair color that came out of my hair.
The darn Great Lakes water took the color out of my hair (never mind that I colored my hair as organically as I could a couple months back!).
My desire to want to be "normal" didn't pan out so well. Skip to next morning: burning skin, all my muscles hurt and that grey hair I was trying to hide.
Now my thought is what the heck is in the water and darn that water for me not having a "normal" moment.
So, word to the wise, think twice before you swim in the Great Lakes with colored hair and chemically sensitive.
http://www.watershedcouncil.org/learn/hydraulic-fracturing/
Thought I would share my stupidity.
I went snorkeling in the local water, well.... Lake Huron. Knew this might cause me a problem but I really wanted to do it. It's on my bucket list-things you want to do before you die (it was a movie). Put on my wet suit (made of material I shouldn't have been wearing) put that plastic mask on my face and snorkel in my mouth. Hubby Joe told me to get down in the 2 feet water, spit in my mask (yuk) then rinse it out and it won't fog up. It worked but yuk lol.
It was so neat to see underwater like that, staring eye to eye with a gobe (not sure of the spelling) but it is an intrusive species in the lakes.
The area was an old saw mill, ohoh, and lots of coal bearied in the bed, ohohoh. So far so good. Well....got back out of the lake and noticed a browish, reddish water coming off of something we had. Figured it was his leather shoes (yes he wore them in the water). Come to find out a morning later it was my hair color that came out of my hair.
The darn Great Lakes water took the color out of my hair (never mind that I colored my hair as organically as I could a couple months back!).
My desire to want to be "normal" didn't pan out so well. Skip to next morning: burning skin, all my muscles hurt and that grey hair I was trying to hide.
Now my thought is what the heck is in the water and darn that water for me not having a "normal" moment.
So, word to the wise, think twice before you swim in the Great Lakes with colored hair and chemically sensitive.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
The PICTURE ABOVE
The picture above shows part of the new air infiltration system he came up with to keep as many chemicals from the outside away from my air. There is a powerful vacuum that has since been attached and it does a great job on a "bad" day. Check it out.
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