Subject: My children's health problems (Garrett)..
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 193152 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 18:28:09 -0600
From: Ramona Garrett
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: My children's health problems (Garrett)..
Roy,
I didn't mention in my previous note, because I didn't realize it was significant,
but there is a cell antennae on top of the high power lines outside our house. It
is on the next pole down from our house. I need to know if anyone thinks the high
power lines, cell tower, heavy metal exposure combination could be affecting my
children.
Thanks,
Ramona
"Roy L. Beavers" wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
> roy@emfguru.com
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