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<p>Farmer,<br>
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Get rid of that recliner. Burn it up. The Chinese get rid of
their hazardous materials a little at a time by putting it in all
sorts of stuff. Stuffed toys, furniture, food, and on and on. You
are being poisoned. I opened a can if smoked oysters last night.
Whew......smelled worse than anything I ever poured in the hopper of
my spray plane. Looked at the label and sure enough, Chinese. Not
being eaten in this house and not put anywhere the animals can get
to it either.<br>
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Ron Cook, Salix, IA<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/12/2018 2:27 PM, Indiana Robinson
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<div>I've lost a lot of time this winter... I started feeling
bad about 2 weeks before Thanksgiving which was annoying
because I just had a physical in October.<br>
Not real specific symptoms, just "unwell". Sometimes badly
short of breath sometimes not. Long periods of brain fog... I
would feel bad for a couple of weeks then feel better for a
few days then back to feeling bad. Gave up and made an
appointment with our GP a few weeks ago and started feeling
better the day before the appointment (funny how that works).
After another physical and an office EKG, a hospital nuclear
stress test and a 48 hour Holter EKG it appears that I may
have been feeling bad... (shrug) I have an early March
appointment with my cardiologist, just a general thing... <br>
On the upside I have felt better ever since I first made the
appointment. :-)<br>
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I got thinking about it and I am suspicious of a new recliner I
bought about a week before I started feeling bad. Like two
thirds of what we buy now it was made in China. I started
looking on line and it seems that China is supposedly using a
lot of very strange concoctions for fumigation at points of
export that nobody really knows for sure what is in them. I saw
claims that they apparently are among other things inserting
little packets of some toxic waste byproduct into some leather
upholstered furniture toed prevent mold during shipping. This
chair isn't leather but a lot of folks are claiming that their
Chinese furniture is making them ill. I also saw references to
US customs often using methyl bromide on this end to fumigate
containers where they find bugs. I take all of this with a grain
of salt but I did recall this chair having a strange smell when
we opened the plastic bags. We also had not taken the chair that
was on display since it seemed a bit "shop-worn" so we took one
still sealed in bags in the box. Maybe we should have opened it
and hauled it around in the back of the truck for a few days...
:-)ny<br>
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Francis Robinson<br>
aka "farmer"<br>
Central Indiana USA<br>
<a href="mailto:robinson46176@gmail.com"
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