Comments for Gulf Coast Syndrome at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 18 out of 18 comments http://www.theind.com Thu, 23 May 2013 11:28:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-20854 I have lost over 100lbs since July 2010 after I was exposed to toxins in Grand Isle, LA while attempting to assist with the oil spill clean-up efforts. I have continued nausea, vomiting, & an inability to digest foods properly. In February 2011, I received a liver transplant. I was thanking God for the miracle I had received but unfortunately my medical problems have taken a different downturn. After surgery, I still struggled with memory loss, fatigue, weakened eyesight, multiple organ failure of which prior to my transplant were functioning fine. My heart was weakened, high blood pressure, kidney failure requiring dialysis, wet lungs that required repeated extractions of fluid (liters) and continued breathing machine (by-pap) treatments, & worst of all still problems with nausea, poor appetite, & poor digestion of the foods that I am able to tolerate occasionally. For the most part I rely on tube feedings. I have spent over a year in and out of the hospital and at the most I have only been home 3wks during the last past year. I am still in St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston, TX (medical center) where they have the best specialists and yet they tell me they are unable to determine a medical explanation for my nutritional woes. I do not seek monetary compensation, I seek anyone who knows of any study being performed that may be able to answer any of the digestive problems & if there is anything I can do medically to improve my situation. Also if there is anyone out there with similar nutritional or digestive problems, please reach out to me with any information. Otherwise I will continue to thank God for extended my life this long & I will continue to pray for my Gulf Coast family & all of the families that are suffering health problems, financial problems, or a combination of both. Peace Be With You! - Grand Isle Ronald Robinson Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:31:24 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-20853 I have lost over 100lbs since July 2010 after I was exposed to toxins in Grand Isle, LA while attempting to assist with the oil spill clean-up efforts. I have continued nausea, vomiting, & an inability to digest foods properly. In February 2011, I received a liver transplant. I was thanking God for the miracle I had received but unfortunately my medical problems have taken a different downturn. After surgery, I still struggled with memory loss, fatigue, weakened eyesight, multiple organ failure of which prior to my transplant were functioning fine. My heart was weakened, high blood pressure, kidney failure requiring dialysis, wet lungs that required repeated extractions of fluid (liters) and continued breathing machine (by-pap) treatments, & worst of all still problems with nausea, poor appetite, & poor digestion of the foods that I am able to tolerate occasionally. For the most part I rely on tube feedings. I have spent over a year in and out of the hospital and at the most I have only been home 3wks during the last past year. I am still in St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston, TX (medical center) where they have the best specialists and yet they tell me they are unable to determine a medical explanation for my nutritional woes. I do not seek monetary compensation, I seek anyone who knows of any study being performed that may be able to answer any of the digestive problems & if there is anything I can do medically to improve my situation. Also if there is anyone out there with similar nutritional or digestive problems, please reach out to me with any information. Otherwise I will continue to thank God for extended my life this long, and my supportive family. I will continue to pray for my Gulf Coast family & all of the families that are suffering health problems, financial problems, or a combination of both. Peace Be With You! - Grand Isle Ronald Robinson Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:29:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17443 Hah, I believe its common knowledge among British Medical Professionals why'nt we call a few in to tell our dumbass government what Corexit and H2S, does to a human body, especially when eating the contaminated seafood from the gulf waters. Our government knows Americans have the shortest memory span of all inhabitants on this planet, hell they're very likely to vote obama into office again, "BETTER NOT ! - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Sun, 08 May 2011 19:26:26 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17252 I like the article, but this hurts more than it helps. "22-year-old Paul Doom from Navarre, Fla., who says he swam in the Gulf last summer and now experiences daily seizures and is in a wheelchair following a stroke, yet the hundreds of doctors he has seen can’t explain why." - Commander Keen Wed, 04 May 2011 10:52:20 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17143 Tucker, "HEED," at the beginning of the spill on TheIndy's... *first reporting of the Blowout... OH, AND PLEASE STOP CALLING IT A SPILL! ITS A FNG BLOWOUT ! Any Professional Oilman, can spell it out for you, b l o w o u t. A female scientist/professional learned in toxins stated on her first report of the spil, that she monitored H2S coming from the spill. This news was soon buried under immediately by one and all. Its no wonder, when you realize most media type think a xmas tree, is a decoration to setup for the Christmas season. I posted on the Indy that the dangers of inhaling these toxic fumes ( H2S ) is deadly, the H2S causes chronic illness's and even small concentrations of H2S can sometimes cause death, and if neither of these health hazards occur immediately, give it time its a "GIMME, You can take it to the bank ! But, what do I know, I only worked with this toxin for 40 years...... Oh, Tucker, rather than labeling H2S as a "CHEMICAL, we need to refer to it in the future as befits this natural toxin, nature Residue, a killertoxin, for that is what it is. Chemicals are what scientists develope, to aid the Medical and Pharmacuidical Professions become billionaires, Never in all my years did I ever witness anyone work near an H2S well without donning a PBA. Thats a "Personal Breathing Appartus. For heavens sake......THE GOVT.IS NOT GOING TO TELL YOU, ITS NOT ONLY THE DISPERANT THATS CONTAMINATING THE SEAFOOD AND MARINE LIFE, The combination of the chemicals in the dispersant, anyone of which is a deadly toxin and then paired with H2S," Hell, any Government's Scientist would kill to have been the scientist, to have discovered that, xxxTOXICPOISONxxx, for his "Government, or he could name his salary at the "ORKIN Corp. I'm just saying, it would kill all the, "RATS in this world, all of them ! The Four legged and the Two Legged Rats....... - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:06:33 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17142 I have been a oil spill responder for 21 yrs since the Exxon Valdez... In those yrs I have ran crews that loaded and or sprayed despersants should have had atleast a level c protection on Back in the eary 90"a my job was to supervise my crew to loading it into the planes I made them wear thier resperators .. Any one that has sprayed or work around the dispersants should have had atleast the level C protect , also all personnel near or in the hot zone ... Should have had a level C Protection due to all the other chemicals... That are put out from the well blow out mainly the H2s.. - Tucker Mendoza Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:57:25 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17141 Thank you. - Lucy Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:34:15 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17140 I am very sorry to say that seafood, here in the northern Gulf, is not safe to eat. The gov't officials met in New Orleans to pat themselves on the back and say the seafood is safe to eat but did not eat the seafood that was served at their luncheons and dinners which was indicative of what they really felt about the seafood safety and the 'official report.' If you want to know about toxic dumps, then check out "U.S. Liquids" in Gran Bois, La. on Bourge LaRose highway. It is an open air set of pits that holds industrial wastes in the middle of wetlands. These pits are very important to the spill story because I believe we have evidence that this is the location where they are dumping the skimmed oil and dispersant sollution and the gov't is not only looking the other way, but may be running interference for the BP oil company and U.S. Liquids. - So. La. marine biologist Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:42:12 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17135 Ragin, One clue and these were his words, "I own and partner so many companies, that they're titled from A- Z," the name of this man inits. akin a female lamb, the site is near the levee, in northeast mid La. can, YOU DIG IT ? - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:42:35 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17111 Hard Hat -- Go ahead, don't keep us in suspense. What is the name of the toxic dump, where is it located, and who is the majority secret partner? - ragin_cajun Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:53:02 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17100 How many times will our people bend over before learning that this is not a normal way of life in other parts of the world and why is it so ingrained into everyone here... Some lowlife comes in dangles a carrot in your face and leads you to the toxic dump. There is a place in middle-louisiana where you can drive by open your car door stay in your car and set off a geigercounter, How strong is that, and you would not believe who is the majority secret partner of the dumping site, which is hushed up by the same state agency whose job it is to protect us from toxic dumpiung........ - HARD HAT Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:06:27 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17077 Chace, do you have a link about that letter from Coast Guard to FOSC? On May 19, 2010 EPA gave BP hours to stop using Corexit, or if they could not find an alternative, to provide a report on the alternatives and reasons for their rejection. A few days later EPA ordered BP to cut down on Corexit use by 75%. Lisa Jackson said, "We are not satisfied that BP has done extensive analysis of other dispersant options. They were more interested in defending their original decisions than studying other options." Of course, the fact remains that Corexit had not been banned as it was in other countries like Britain, and that BP was allowed to continue using Corexit. But I believe this is a problem that has more to do with corporate control of our government than government itself. EPA did not have the power to stop BP. Corexit was made by Nalco, a company which BP has a financial interest in. And since Corexit had been banned in other offshore fields like the North Sea, apparently there was a glut of the stuff that they wanted to use. I agree that EPA had an inadequate response. It should have had the power to stop BP from using Corexit and use less toxic alternatives. Of course there is a level of corruption in all government agencies, but laying blame entirely on EPA is disingenuous and ignores the stranglehold that corporate powers have on government. - Resident Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:45:11 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17075 Is it safe to eat seafood from the Gulf? - seafood lover Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:11:32 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17071 The EPA is a Federal Toxin Disposal Agency of the present administration, The USGS was broken up for not going along with Federal regulations on the use of disperants to aid oil companys with oil spills in the gulf waters, replaced with a puppet federal agency which totally rolled over like a trained dog as ordered to do so by the federal government and to look the other way, and ignore violations by the oil companys......... - HARDHAT Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:08:35 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17070 If Obama would have carried our state of LOUISIANA, there would not be any corexit on the Gulf of Mexico seabed, take a lesson from this toxic poisoning, and remember this on the next national elections, the least costly disposal of the chemical corexit as ordered by British Parliament in England is to have it absorbed by Louisiana residents. Aye BP ? Oh hell, ya'll knew this already. - HARDHAT Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:58:24 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17061 There was a non toxic alternative OSE II that the EPA prevented from being used by the state of Louisiana on May 6th 2010 before all the shorelines had become contaminated. The Coast Guard sent a letter from New London to the Federal On Scene Coordinator to take action with OSE II, and the EPA stopped this request as well. The oil would be converted to CO2 and water, there would be no oil laying on the Gulf seabed, and no one would be suffering from chemical exposure due to the horrific chemicals in corexit, and the seafood would be safe, and flourishing. Due to the EPA's inadequate response, the spill is now a toxic hazard adversely effecting humans, marine species, and the environment in general. - Chace Smith Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:07:04 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17060 The US EPA has pre approved the toxic cprexit, who's label states it is lethal to humans. Bp used corexit since they own stock in the company that makes it now. They all new the consequences for using a toxic product, to sink oil and hide it. They have no follow up testing with the product, however independent scientist have been developing this information for months, it is not good. There are constant reports of oil; sheens all over the gulf still today, and sightings of planes applying corexit even near shore. Someone is paying for this action that will ultimately harm even more Gulf coast residents. - Chace Smith Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:02:57 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8187-gulf-coast-syndrome-#comment-17045 Drill baby Drill but at what cost and who pays the bill. - neutral party Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:05:43 +0100