Yes, I would love to obtain a better chart of Symptoms of Pesticide Poisoning.  My mailing address is:  .....  Just recently moved here after living in Carpinteria for 4 years and becoming very ill and disabled, still fighting the battle long distance, but at least I'm safe here and am not living 8 feet from a creek where 70% of Carpinteria's Growers live upstream.

I have no medical documentation saying that indeed it was the pesticides that has made me so ill, then again most of my medical treatment has come from the County, being a single mother, a waitress and no health insurance.  The Drs. I've come in contact with don't, won't and/or can't believe chemicals do these awful things to humans.  I am now 39. When I moved to Carpinteria I had no medical problems what so ever, in fact I never had a need to even see a Dr.  Six months after moving there I suddenly developed Asthma, and my condition worsened from there to the point of where I am today.  My endocrine system, my kidneys, my liver, all 12 of my cranial nerves thru my Neurotransmitters, course the asthma, I have joint and muscle pain, fatigue, I'm a mess.  Since moving in Sept of 99 I have noticed a difference in the fatigue and joint and muscle pain. My home is now free of all chemicals, ie; cleaning products, soaps etc, but still I am very chemically sensitive now, if I go to the grocery store or out in public now that I am not getting dosed on an everyday basis I feel the ill effects of venturing out of my house, my joint, muscle pain and fatigue return for 2 or 3 days, more severe if I had just stayed home.

I have been disabled and unable to work for over a year now, even though all the time before this it was a struggle to work my breaking point came in Dec of 98 when the County came in and dredged the creek along side my house, see prior to this I had only 2 cranial nerves involved on one side,  it was during this soil removal that my condition progressed, see what happens is both eyes forcibly close and my entire face spasms whenever I am exposed to a chemical I am sensitive to, leaving me functionally blind, in severe pain etc.  And there were times when I would awake in the early mornings, both eyes closed, in pain and I could smell a chemical smell emitting from the creek, in my heart I know what has made me sick.  I have spoken to a security guard who use to work at one of the nurseries up stream from me and he says at night they use to dump their pesticide waste into the creek, another neighbor needed some soil for his yard and he went down into the creek and pulled some out, he and his wife have been sick every since, stories like this are never ending, thing is no one does anything, no one wants to get involved, as I'm sure there is a lot of this around the country, sad but true HUH?

Anyway I am in the process of applying for Social Security Disability, if it rules in my favor there will be a substantial amount of back pay and I've already started making arrangements and plans to get the kind of medical attention I need by people who do believe chemicals can do this to you.  The name of the clinic is Environmental Health Clinic in Dallas, www.ehc.com, ever heard of them?  I hope thru their testing I will then have some long awaited answers, and maybe then I'll have the documented proof and I will be able to add myself to your web page, until then I will keep your web site close at hand, a member of CCAAPPS sent it to me and I've been going thru it, has a lot of good info, in fact I have been working on a web page of my own in an attempt to educated the citizens of Carpinteria to the dangers lurking in the community.  If I wanted to put a link to your site would I need your written permission? I always tell people when I pass out literature that in an attempt to keep my EYES open, I am trying to open the EYES of others, that has come in a very sad and painful way to be my motto.

In closing I would like to thank you for your interest, and again, once this is all documented I will definitely add my story to your webpage.

Hope you have a wonderful day,

Robin W, California
 

Linda,

Yes, please do if you feel that it is appropriate, I know all to well what it feels like to have the feeling of being all alone, if it were not for my Webtv and vast amount of information on the internet, I really don't know where my mental state would be at today, in fact had I listened to the Drs. I would probably be crazy by now, for they have out right told me "If I wanted to believe chemicals could do this to me, go ahead, but they felt psychotherapy and anti depressants would be the correct answer to all my problems"  I've always been thankful that my mind is strong and didn't succumb to their suggestions of it being all in my mind.

Please let me know if you need or would like any further information.

Robin Wood