[AT] Poison Ivy

[Cecil Bearden]

Health insurance wants to wait out your life and hope that you will have 
to collect on your life insurance..  It is an accounting decision.
Cecil



On 6/14/2020 11:36 PM, Mike M wrote:
> 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
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> 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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>> *From:* AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> on behalf of 
>> Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, June 14, 2020 11:35 PM
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>> *Subject:* [AT] Poison Ivy
>> 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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