[AT] Poison Ivy

[Mike M]

Interesting you would say that, Steve. Had a lower abdomen CT that
showed a 5mm nodule on my right lung. NP and my PCP ordered a full CT of
my lungs. Insurance denied it because they only allow the scan of any
organ every 6 months. The scan only showed my lower lungs, not my upper
lungs. So I wait my 6 months and then have it reordered. Go figure.

Mike M

On 6/14/2020 11:55 PM, Sewell, Steven wrote:
> About 5 years ago I had a low dose lung CT scan. It showed a spot here
> and there. Up to CMH - OSU Med Center for a biopsy. Calcified
> Granuloma. Still need check on it. Intake nurse at OSU started on a
> questionnaire / checklist. I stopped her and Said -  "check all the
> boxes". Been there - done that on all of them.
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> Steve Sewell
> Albany, Ohio USA
> sewell at ohio.edu <mailto:sewell at ohio.edu>
> sewell at atis.net <mailto:sewell at atis.net>
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> Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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> My father started spraying corn fields and fence rows with 2-4-D in
> the 1940's right after WW-II. DDT in the milking barn was a daily
> thing. They bought this farm in 1951 and it was massively overgrown
> with Honey Locust thorn trees. You know, the kind with "giant" thorns.
> I spent a lot of years spraying all manner of stuff and my father was
> not very safety minded when it came to spraying. Of course neither was
> the government back then. My father used to preach at me that it was
> required that the spray mix HAD to run off of every leaf of every plant.
> About 10 years ago my Doctor moved away and we had to find a new one.
> She sat me down and asked a thousand questions, knowing that I was a
> farmer, and made big list of all of the things I had been exposed to.
> Then she put me on a sort of an automatic list I guess pretty much
> saying that I had a very high probability of cancer. So far so good,
> still in the clear.
> By age 11 I was spraying agent orange (mix of 2-4-D, 2-4-5-T and stove
> oil) all summer long using a three gallon metal hand sprayer, spraying
> all kinds of brush and especially those Honey Locust about 4 to 5 feet
> up the trunks. We sprayed all of our corn with 2-4-D at "lay-by". By
> the time I was about 14 I was doing about all of the spraying. I can't
> begin to name all of the stuff I sprayed over the years, mostly
> typical corn belt chemicals as they came along. Lasso, Treflan,
> Atrazine, 2-4-D-B, many others and of course Round-up... I still use
> Round-up and 2-4-D but I'm pretty conservative with them.
> During those years I also worked with a fair amount of asbestos,
> sawing, drilling and nailing it as well as removing it from several
> structures (before modern restrictions).
> When Diana and I got married I worked for a number of years I worked
> in a plastics plant and constantly worked with a bunch of kind of
> scary solvents with big warning labels that the company didn't take
> very seriously...
> Then we owned a store and added a shoe repair shop (an old family
> trade) and for 20 years I worked daily in a cloud of quite
> squirrley adhesives, solvents and thinners.
> Every time I go see the doctor she asks the same batch of questions
> making sure nothing is going wrong. That and checking me for any
> indications of our family curse. Of my parents and my sister and
> myself I am the only one that has not been diagnosed with
> Altzheimers... They are all gone now... Both my mother and my sister
> died from it. My father had it pretty bad but congestive heart failure
> killed him first.
> Like I said, "so far so good". At 78 I'm still passing all of my
> tests.  :-)
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> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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