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Post by daniela on Jul 23, 2012 10:29:59 GMT -5
Glenda1, sorry to hear about your brother, but what is Agent Orange Poisoning? If his organs were full of it, did the doctor prescribe this to him? If I'm asking a stupid or too personal question, I'm sorry. I just have never heard of Agent Orange Poison.
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Post by goldenslumbers on Jul 23, 2012 12:28:23 GMT -5
Agent Orange was a dioxin chemical used during the Vietnam War (1960s mostly, not so much during the 1970s) to defoliate trees, with the idea that leaf-less trees would make battle operations more productive.
The chemical was not orange in color. It was shipped in orange barrels, from which its name was derived.
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Post by mercantile on Jul 23, 2012 12:34:05 GMT -5
Thank you daniela and goldenslumbers for your kind words. :-)
Looking back we had eighteen months of joy and pain all mixed up together. The little boy knew he was loved and was as brave as you could wish him to be. We are thankful for our other healthy children and his birthday is marked just as specially as one of their own.
mercantile
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Post by mercantile on Jul 23, 2012 12:44:19 GMT -5
A couple of things have come to "bug" me about the medical profession in recent years. First, the way meds are prescribed so easily, only later to be determined to have devastating side effects. The latest reports on statins are scary and yet people have been popping them for years now, at their doctors' advice.... many examples of this.... A big problem is the fact that docs have to scoot patients in and out of their offices every ten minutes in order to make the money to pay for malpractice insurance..... thanks to the lawyers getting far too huge settlements for people..... And, the other thing I've noticed is the way something becomes an "in" diagnosis..... in the 70's it was mono ... the 80's brought the yuppy sleeping sickness ... the 90's fibromyalgia became the frequent diagnosis ... and now a zillion doctors are diagnosing various thyroid problems..... I simply don't trust 'em anymore. I feel like we're raising a citizenry of hypochondriacs who leap to the newest thing that comes along and the doctors accommodate them!! Sorry. I know I'm exaggerating and over-reacting. But, my response does result from some experience..... I am afraid that malpractice cases, or medical negligence as it is referred to over here, has lead to some health authorities teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. A truly staggering phenomenon, given that health care is free on the NHS. I work for the great reforming machine that is the NHS; it astonishes me how little compassion people have for a free service, seeming to only criticise and look for opportunity to seek damages at the drop of a hat. * rant over * mercantile
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Post by Heather on Jul 23, 2012 13:41:58 GMT -5
I'm sorry glenda01, about your brother.
I believe Agent Orange was the culprit in my father's death as well.
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Post by glenda1 on Jul 23, 2012 13:56:43 GMT -5
Agent Orange was used in the Vietnam War to kill the jungle folage and the GI's Were drenched wet with this stuff. The army sent my brother home on a medical honorable discharge , He came home was so poisoined by it and died a short time later. He was just a kid , I was at his bed side when he died , he held my hand and said > Glenda don't ever forget I love you !! That was darn near 40 years ago. I still think of what he said and I cry so bad.
The agent orange is able to seep in thru your skin and it attaches itself to everything , that why I said His internal organ's were drenched with this vile slop.
Just like a person putting on hand lotion , it eventually get's into your blood stream.
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