claudette
02-16-2012, 09:56 PM
I do hope someone can help me with a serious situation I-and perhaps many others-face.
Background: in March of 2008 excavation was done for a new building adjacent my apt. building. At the end of excavation, men in HazMat suits arrived, and sprayed something on the soil. I forgot about it until I became ill a few months later, with coughing, nightsweats, terrible fatigue and weight loss. Finally, in September I was diagnosed with mycobacterium avium complex, (MAC) a relatively rare (200,000 cases in the US) which is a bacterial infection similar to TB but not contagious. Once it is in your system it never really leaves; just is more active. I was hospitalized several times due to reaction to the 3 strong antibiotics usually given and found a treatment from my Naturopath put it into remission. Several months after I was diagnosed, another woman in my building, who lives one floor above me was diagnosed with the exact same strain. Only 200,000 cases in the US and 2 of us get sick at the same time? I grew suspicious about why the ground had to be treated by HazMat. I contacted Dept. of Environmental Quality and obtained reports of soil and groundwater and saw there were very high levels of arsenic, benzene, lead, benzo(a)pyrene and naphthalene from a gas manufacturing plant and old railroad yards. Apprarisal records list contaminated soil-1/3 of the price of the lot was knocked off because of the contamination.The DEQ doesn't deny the contaminants are there, but insists I couldn't get sick from these contaminants becoming airborne during excavation. There is research from National Institutes of Health of MAC being contracted in hospitals during construction and excavation. There isn't much research on MAC treatment much less origins as not that many people have been diagnosed with it. DEQ is supposed to be monitoring the air in our building and for migration of contaminants into the nearby river but they are not up to date on their tests. I don't know how to read the graphs; just read that the report states some on the contaminants "pose an unacceptable risk to residents" When I ask DEQ about this, they say we are at no risk from the excavation and that the vapor barrior HazMat applied wil keep the vapors from permeating up into our building.
I've had 2 relapses since then, and am now in remission. I'm also concerned that others in the building of 176 seniors may have contracted MAC in 2008 but it is not diagnosed as it easily masquerades as bronchitis, pneumonia. It takes ct scans, bronchoscopies and 6 week sputum samples to diagnose, and this isn't commonly done.
Fast forward to Jan 31 when I read in the paper a hotel is planned for the lot across the street from the other building-still very close to me-and I know from the reports I have that the contamination there is almost exactly the same. A drilling company was there, taking soil samples. Once this soil is excavated, there is no way to ignore it. Intake vents on our ceiling pull in ambient air and pump it through our building.
I asked the horary question Jan 31, "are we going to get sick from this contaminated soil?". Of course I'm wondering if I will get sick again, but in asking the question I was clearly thinking of others in the building. Perhaps this muddles the question too much. Hence, I don't know which houses to use! Am I house 1, and I look to the 6th for health? 10 Taurus is ASC, so I would be Venus in the 12th? Merc ruler of 6th house: at 6 Aquar in the 10th. Libra is intercepted in the 6th: Mars 22 virgo retro, opposite venus, and saturn 29 Libra. Moon is 17 Tau in 1st House.
I'll try to attach the chart;sometimes cannot get it to work. (Jan 31, 10:58 am, Portland OR)
This is so important, for if the concensus seems to be getting sick is a distinct possibility, I will have to launch another, more thorough campaign to find out more about the soil, try to get an environment group to help me, etc, all with no money! Not to mention trying to disrupt a 22 million dollar project proposed by the wealthiest, most powerful urban developer in Portland.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Background: in March of 2008 excavation was done for a new building adjacent my apt. building. At the end of excavation, men in HazMat suits arrived, and sprayed something on the soil. I forgot about it until I became ill a few months later, with coughing, nightsweats, terrible fatigue and weight loss. Finally, in September I was diagnosed with mycobacterium avium complex, (MAC) a relatively rare (200,000 cases in the US) which is a bacterial infection similar to TB but not contagious. Once it is in your system it never really leaves; just is more active. I was hospitalized several times due to reaction to the 3 strong antibiotics usually given and found a treatment from my Naturopath put it into remission. Several months after I was diagnosed, another woman in my building, who lives one floor above me was diagnosed with the exact same strain. Only 200,000 cases in the US and 2 of us get sick at the same time? I grew suspicious about why the ground had to be treated by HazMat. I contacted Dept. of Environmental Quality and obtained reports of soil and groundwater and saw there were very high levels of arsenic, benzene, lead, benzo(a)pyrene and naphthalene from a gas manufacturing plant and old railroad yards. Apprarisal records list contaminated soil-1/3 of the price of the lot was knocked off because of the contamination.The DEQ doesn't deny the contaminants are there, but insists I couldn't get sick from these contaminants becoming airborne during excavation. There is research from National Institutes of Health of MAC being contracted in hospitals during construction and excavation. There isn't much research on MAC treatment much less origins as not that many people have been diagnosed with it. DEQ is supposed to be monitoring the air in our building and for migration of contaminants into the nearby river but they are not up to date on their tests. I don't know how to read the graphs; just read that the report states some on the contaminants "pose an unacceptable risk to residents" When I ask DEQ about this, they say we are at no risk from the excavation and that the vapor barrior HazMat applied wil keep the vapors from permeating up into our building.
I've had 2 relapses since then, and am now in remission. I'm also concerned that others in the building of 176 seniors may have contracted MAC in 2008 but it is not diagnosed as it easily masquerades as bronchitis, pneumonia. It takes ct scans, bronchoscopies and 6 week sputum samples to diagnose, and this isn't commonly done.
Fast forward to Jan 31 when I read in the paper a hotel is planned for the lot across the street from the other building-still very close to me-and I know from the reports I have that the contamination there is almost exactly the same. A drilling company was there, taking soil samples. Once this soil is excavated, there is no way to ignore it. Intake vents on our ceiling pull in ambient air and pump it through our building.
I asked the horary question Jan 31, "are we going to get sick from this contaminated soil?". Of course I'm wondering if I will get sick again, but in asking the question I was clearly thinking of others in the building. Perhaps this muddles the question too much. Hence, I don't know which houses to use! Am I house 1, and I look to the 6th for health? 10 Taurus is ASC, so I would be Venus in the 12th? Merc ruler of 6th house: at 6 Aquar in the 10th. Libra is intercepted in the 6th: Mars 22 virgo retro, opposite venus, and saturn 29 Libra. Moon is 17 Tau in 1st House.
I'll try to attach the chart;sometimes cannot get it to work. (Jan 31, 10:58 am, Portland OR)
This is so important, for if the concensus seems to be getting sick is a distinct possibility, I will have to launch another, more thorough campaign to find out more about the soil, try to get an environment group to help me, etc, all with no money! Not to mention trying to disrupt a 22 million dollar project proposed by the wealthiest, most powerful urban developer in Portland.
Any help is greatly appreciated.