[AT] Poison Ivy

[Cecil Bearden]

Farmer,  Probably all of those solvents and adhesive fumes cleaned your 
system out!!!!!!!!
Cecil

On 6/14/2020 10:35 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> 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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