[AT] Poison Ivy

Mon Jun 15 10:38:42 PDT 2020

My wife has cost them a ton of money over the past two years after
having complications from having a benign tumor removed. I have a
feeling that plays a part it their decision. I think her bill is north
of 150K now.

Mike M

On 6/15/2020 8:15 AM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
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> 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
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> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>>> 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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