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<p>Farmer, Probably all of those solvents and adhesive fumes
cleaned your system out!!!!!!!!<br>
Cecil<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/14/2020 10:35 PM, Indiana Robinson
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<div dir="ltr">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.
<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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).</div>
<div>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...</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>Like I said, "so far so good". At 78 I'm still passing all
of my tests. :-) <br clear="all">
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Francis Robinson<br>
aka "farmer"<br>
Central Indiana USA<br>
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