I have had a headache every day for the last 2 years since the sludge came. One day all our neighbors were outside talking and one mentioned "my husband has headaches". I said, "We have headaches, too". It turned out EVERY ONE of our neighbors is suffering from headaches.
We went to Arizona for a while and we all felt better. My husband has been working in Arizona for 3 months now. He works 12 to 14 hours a day and he is fine physically. But within 24 hours after he comes home, he feels extremely tired and fatigued.
My brother's girlfriend stayed with us for 12 days. She has a little boy, going on 2 years old. He was playing outside all the time he was here. Then he started running a fever. She thought he was teething. After they got home, the child developed blisters in his mouth and down his throat. They are like canker sores. She rushed him to the doctor, and the doctor said he never saw it before.
(I told Tina we are hearing about rashes and mouth blisters from many sludge victims, and we think it may be hand, foot and mouth disease, which manifests itself as a rash with mouth blisters and is caused by coxsackievirus, a pathogen EPA says is in sludge.)
TINA said her neighbor, Joan Leach, down the street runs a day care facility .... and many of the kids there had hand, foot and mouth disease last year!
This sludge is coming from Orange County where there is much heavy industry. They are sending the sludge containing the chemicals and metals to the rural areas. Tina said the sludge was illegally dumped on a parcel of 440 acres in Riverside County. It was tested and found to be "contaminated waste" -- they could't get it to the right temperature (she is probably referring to pathogen levels.)
Tina says they have hired an attorney .... they have to stop this sludge dumping. The family is considering selling their house and moving to get away from the sludge.
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