Subject: My children's health problems (Garrett)..
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 090209 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Ramona:
I feel that the evidence that your children have been made ill
by the EMF power lines is very slim..... Most unlikely, based on
what you tell me below.....
EMF effects take some time to occur ... and even longer to be
recognized as such.....
I think it would probably be a mistake to treat your situation as
an EMF case.....
Guru....
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Ramona Garrett wrote:
> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 21:54:18 -0600
> From: Ramona Garrett
> To: "Roy L. Beavers"
> Subject: My children's health problems
>
> My 3 children are having developmental problems. They have had all
> kinds of tests. They've been to 3 different geneticists twice, had
> chromosomes, fragile X, serum blood, carnitine levels, long chain fatty
> acids, medium chain fatty acid and short chain fatty acids, organic
> urine tests, hearing booth and ABR tests and been evaluated by a
> toxicologist and Texas Children's Developmental Clinic twice. All these
> tests were normal, with the exception of one of Adam's urine workups
> where 18 things were above or below the level they were supposed to be.
> The geneticist looked at it though and ruled out inborn error of
> metabolism. They've had hair analysis, lead tests and heavy metal blood
> tests (Adam only).
>
> Both the boys had hair analyses. They showed over the limit of Lead,
> Cadmium, Arsenic & Antimony, with Adam's test showing over the limit in
> Aluminum. I also had a hair analysis done and I had twice the amount of
> aluminum in mine. The hair analyses were done 2 years ago.
>
> My heavy metal blood analysis showed twice the amount of aluminum than I
> should have and no other metals over the limit. My milk analysis showed
> no organochlorides. It did show DDE, which the doctor said was the
> same amount that everyone has. Adam's blood analysis (recently) showed
> no metals over the limit. He would only test Adam and I had to insist
> on that.
>
> We had lived in another house and had sanded the walls to put up
> wallpaper when I was pregnant with Joshua. We didn't know you weren't
> supposed to do that if the house had lead based paint. We haven't
> confirmed that the house had lead based paint, but it was built in
> 1963. Lead based paint was outlawed in 1987 I think. This is the only
> place I can imagine these metals coming from. The dog also started
> fritzing out after we sanded the walls. We sanded another room just
> before we moved out of that house, when Adam was 7 months old.
>
>
> The children are: Joshua 5 3/4 yrs., Adam 4.1 yrs. and Monica 22 mos.
> (totally breastfed). Monica won't eat food, she tongue thrusts. Adam
> is a very picky eater, he won't eat foods with a lot of texture to them.
>
> Joshua has slight speech problems, and is very smart, but a tiny bit
> slow mentally and he talks very loud. The louder the place he is in,
> the louder he talks. He has behavioral problems also, he likes to hurt
> other children. He doesn't "get" personal space. And he gets a little
> hyper at times, mostly around new children.
>
> Adam and Monica do not talk. They make vowel sounds, but do not babble
> like a baby. Adam is getting a little better, but he does not
> understand much. He will now grab our finger and lead us to what he
> wants or where he wants to go. But, mostly he just screams when he is
> mad or sad or wants something.
>
> Monica was born at home and because of the levels in the boys' hair
> samples, I had her cord blood tested for lead when she was born. It was
> a 1.3. I had her blood tested again when she was about 13 months old.
> Her lead level was rising, it was a 5.0!
>
> I have had the dirt in the back yard tested for metals, there were
> none. I had the dust inside the house tested, there was some, lead
> (97), cadmium (22), arsenic (12) and aluminum (4970). I couldn't
> imagine where this was coming from. We finally figured out that the
> dust from the other house could have settled in our furniture and maybe
> it was coming from that. So, we put the furniture in the garage.
>
> They haven't started talking yet though. I also haven't had her blood
> tested again yet.
>
>
> We live across the street from some high power transmission lines. I've
> had the Light company guy come out and test our EMF levels. He can't
> tell me if they're high or low, but told me what they were. Mostly in
> the house, they're about 1.7-1.9.
>
> I truly feel as if the high power lines are causing the children's
> problems. This is what I know: There is no proven research that says, yes,
> it could cause
> these exact kinds of problems, but it has caused neurological problems.
> Also, EMFs affect your body's production of melatonin at night. My
> children also do not go to sleep well. Monica sleeps a lot during the
> day and when she finally goes to sleep at night around 2 or 3 a.m., she
> would sleep until 2 or 3 p.m. if I'd let her. I wake her up though.
> Adam has always had trouble sleeping in this house. He was 9 months
> when we moved here.
>
> The woman who lived here before us died of multiple myelomas. I did
> research into that and it is supposedly rare. I think I read that it
> was the adult form of leukemia?
>
>
> Does anyone know of any research that says that EMFs could be causing these
> problems in my children? We've ruled out tons of other things with all the
> "drs".
>
> I'm at the point where I just want to take them to the Mayo Clinic or
> something. There has to be an answer to this problem. This is not
> normal. Adam and Monica are not learning normally.
>
> We are looking now for a new place to live.
>
> Thanks for listening,
>
> Ramona Garrett
>
>
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