I am aware of what we are being exposed to from the sludge, so I take vitamins to try to boost my immune system. But that white cloud over the sludge concerns me. I have 2 other neighbors who live within 200 feet of the sludged field who are home all the time. They both say the same thing -- it is hard to explain -- but when we breath those amine gases, it makes you lethargic. It interferes with our memory and concentration. We forget what we went into a room for ... what we were going to get .... it is starting to scare me.
I am a person who likes to get up early and live each day to its fullest. But since the sludge came, it has affected our concentration, memory, we are real tired, we have no enthusiasm for life. I believe our blood stream has been affected .... possibly the oxygen level in the brain ... by these chemicals from the sludge which we are breathing.
Two years ago when they spread the sludge, we had an epidemic of cats dying. They got real skinny, they would meow and cry .... they could come over to my yard to die. At least 15 cats or more in our neighborhood died.
I have a neighbor who home schools her children. She though someone was poisoning the cats. She had two cats which were sick. She could only afford testing on one of the cats. The Vet tested the cat and found it positive for feline leukemia and feline AIDS. She had to have her cat put to sleep.
OTHER SYNTTOMS my husband and I have experienced include nausea, headaches, sore and irritated throats, hoarseness, runny noses, burning in the nasal area, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. My husband suffered thick, heavy mucus and mouth blisters, and we both suffered from severe fatigue.
After the sludge was spread, little bugs crawled on my skin, making welts. My other neighbors also suffered this. (I told her they were probably "no-see-ums". ) She said the lesion would scab up but then after a couple of weeks it would start itching again. I went to the doctor for it. He didn't know what it was and he gave me some ointment. We are all more prone to illness since our exposure to sewage sludge.
We own our mobile home outright -- no bills. But we are seriously considering walking away from everything we have to get away from the sludge. We don't want to go -- but our quality of life has been ruined. No person has my permission to expose my property and my family to what we have been suffering. I told each of the county commissioners that absolutely none of them have my permission to do this to us. I told them they cannot tell me there are no health effects.
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