First, a BIG THANK YOU! to Beth Lindow, Annie Burbridge, Barb Thomas, Sonda Warrington, Terry Brown, and Dizy Brown for helping Annie yesterday with a flower bed tune-up and prune.
After the jump, my take on what causes MDS. This should prompt some discussion from any of you medicos that have subscribed.
So what causes MDS?
Most people get MDS as a side or after effect of chemo and/or radiation from a previous cancer treatment, perhaps one that may have been a little heavy handed. A Genetic Mutation can also trigger
immature or corrupted blood cells, and there is a Nobel waiting for whoever figures out gene mutation.
My MDS is classified as de novo, or new. De novo REFRACTORY CYTOPENIA WITH MULTILINEAGE DYSPLASIA with a chromosomal mutation 9q del.
I think it was brought on by self- induced long-term low-dose chemotherapy. A lifetime of working with paints, solvents, epoxies, and other resins. From the model airplane glue (toluene ) of my pre-teens, through dabbling with resorcinol glue and polyester resins and bathing in acetone in my Jr. High days, darkroom chemicals for both film and prints, and everything from red lead primer and the cuprinol in fungicidal bedding compounds to the Awlgrip and WEST System in my boatyard days, I was exposed to all kind nasty stuff.
Sure we wore gloves and masks as we learned to, but the exposure was there. It comes in your ears, and your eyes, and if you can taste it, it is getting to you.
Another factor that I can not yet scientifically validate, but strongly suspect, can be summed up in that one word which Mr. Robinson uttered to young Ben in the graduate - Plastics.
Soundtrack
Yes, Plastics.
It was 1967, we were headed for the moon, caught up in the technoclimate, few chemists at DOW and Dupont stopped to examine long term side effects associated with the new materials they were creating.
Very little of our food does not come in contact with plastic at some point in harvesting, processing or packaging.
Styrofoam in the microwave? Horrors!
New Car Smell in a can, the outgassing of vinyls concentrated for your breathing pleasure.
Feb. 15, 2012 -- That “new car smell” may come from toxic chemicals, according to new research.
A new study suggests that new car smell comes from toxic chemicals off-gassing in a car’s interior, like brominated flame retardants (BFRs), chromium, and lead. In all, researchers identified more than 275 different chemicals in vehicle interiors, including those associated with birth defects, impaired learning, liver problems, and cancer.
If the lead pipes killed the Romans, PVC pipe is what is getting us, but I digress, and will save this rant for a future post...don't get me started.
more to come,
later
Chris
No more tree air fresheners for me!
ReplyDeleteInteresting about your view on plastics. Totally can see a trend going away from their use and how we really still don't know what the long term effects will be on humans.
I fender if any studies have been done on the correlation of boatyard workers and cancer?
I know all aspects of that work are hazardous to your health. Dust, fumes, glue, solvents it goes on and on.
Food storage we have always used glass we put our leftovers in mason jars and other recycled glass jars we save from other products.
They are also fine storage for dry goods like rice and cropping corn.