This site as of 9-15-01 will be 6 months old. Although the numbers of visitors is small, 302 at this time, I would have preferred that there were no visitors at all due to the reasons for the visits.
There has been a tragedy in our nation. I have no words that can express my shock, rage, and devistation that I feel during this time. I am so PROUD to be an AMERICAN and to live in this country. I extend my heart and feeling to all the people who feel the same as I. We have lost many as of this date of 9-13-01, and no one knows what the final result will be. These people gave their lives so that we might live a better life. A THANK YOU seems very small and so does I'M SORRY. I feel that no words are enough. All we can do as a loving people is to support each other and try to get back to the matters that has made this country great.
In regards to this site and its purpose I feel it is important to update at this time due to the weather changes coming in the next several months. Everyone will soon be heating our homes. Some by electric, some by natural gas, others by wood or coal. How do you heat your home?
What would you do if you had been sick for 3 1/2 years starting with being on life support for almost a week and progressing to growing lesions, among a lot of other health issues with doctors not being able to tell you what is happening? If there had been a natural gas leak in your home and you had called the company time after time with them stating "it must be such a small leak it will only cost you pennies a month", and now that I know more about natural gas, the most frightening was, "it won't hurt you", What would you do? Would you connect the two? Would your doctor? Would you recognize the effects of other products such as perfume or cleaning supplies if you had never experienced such reactions before?
Over 60 doctors and I couldn't figure out what was happening to me. Finally I got the gas company to believe that I was smelling gas. They found 1, then 2. I had to call the plumber to fix the leaks of which he found 8 all together. It took 6 days to fix them in Feb of 00 with 42" of snow and temps below 0. About 2 months later I noticed a change for the better. The lesions had stopped growing. I was very happy but wanted to find out why this had been happening for so long. I started with everything in my life, detergents, cleaners, diet, places I went. I couldn't find anything different except for the gas leak. Next I went to the web.
It took me over 6 months of research on the web to compile this list. I have narrowed it down from the 53,000 original sites I found by typing natural gas leak and health illnesses into my search engine. Here you will find everything from regulations and ingredients to lawyer and health sites.
I SAID I WOULD PROVIDE MORE DETAILED LIST...HERE IT IS!
A DETAIL OF ILLNESSES AND SYMPTOMS DURING GAS LEAK!!
GAS TURNED ON OCT.1996
FEVER, FELT SICK JAN. 27,28,29, 1997
COUGH UP BLOOD JAN. 30, 1997
WENT TO HOSPITAL, ADMITTED WITH PNEUMONIA JAN.30, 1997
In hospital, given a tiny room, boyfriend had cable turned on, Dr. Bushwick brought me the fan I requested...I know nothing else until later when I heard the Dr. screaming at me..Mary, just say yes...If you do, we can help you...say yes! I remember the motion of the bed moving and seeing the ceiling move, next thing was a little girl there to ask me if I needed more pain medicine...she provided a shot, It did NOT WORK! She asked, do you want Demerol instead of Morphine? I said that she was to young for this and that she should ask the Dr. She explained that he left standing orders for pain meds as I needed them...Next thing, I woke up, stretched, sat up, layed hand on leg, rubbed lightly, and said "I need to shave my legs because I think my boyfriend Bill might come and see me today...As I looked around I saw an all glass room with alot of machines and bottles of meds for shots...........I found out I had been on life support for 5 days...Upon release, Diagnosed with asthma, emphysema, given an appointment for 2 days later.
Within 1 month, diagnosed with bi-polar manic depression, keratosis pilaris, goose bump skin.
Always seemed to have sinus problems with cold type symptoms that did not get better. Added to that was...throwing up every am., exacerbated fibromyalgia symptoms, exacerbated breathing problems, started to be tired ALL the time, not sleeping, weakness of a kind that you CAN NOT EXPLAIN, no words seem to be able to describe it.
Not so sure of the order here unless I look at medical records....THIS IS OVER A TIME PERIOD OF ABOUT 2 years; Went for annual pap, came back with not normal cells, given option of waiting for cancer or cryosurgey...chose cryosurgery, broke ankle 2 times in 6 months due to dizziness, 5 connected lumps in L breast that had nothing to do with fibrocystic breast disease, ultrasound confirmed them....NOT CANCER...
During my day I knicked my hand, pin prick size...
Next am., knick looked and felt different, within hours it had grown, dime size, nickle size, quarter size and MAN IT HURT!! Went to Dr.
Admitted, 5 days, given high doses of antibiotics, testing galore, released with no etiology known...
NOW as I look back...I had to change deodorant, 10 x's in 6 mos until I just stopped using it. I started to STINK...UNUSUAL BAD SMELL, even while drying off as getting out of shower...Wearing of lotion became null and void...rash...like with the deodorant, some teeth were loose for a week then tight, then loose...Canididia, oral thrush, an on-going problem...lesions out of control-during periods from first one, approx june 1998 until feb 2000, I grew approx 50 lesions...my hair was falling out...my skin turned to a gray shade...lips turned gray...red blood cells kept growing larger which usually means some kind of anemia, which I did not have...cholesterol went high...hypothyroidism blood tests with no supporting evidence such as ultrasound and such, normal, finally called sub-clinical hypothryoidism...SICK ALL THE TIME!!! THESE THINGS WERE ALL HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME AND ON TOP OF EACH OTHER. April or so of 2000, the lesions stopped growing although all other things in life were the same as during the lesion growth.
I tried for weeks to think of ANYTHING different in my life now compared to when I was having the problem...Soaps, Shampoo, Laundry, Diet, Where I went, Who I saw, Anything new brought in the home, did I get rid of something in the home? WHAT WAS THE CHANGE?
TIME FRAME OF NATURAL GAS IN HOME!!
Gas turned on approx. oct. 1996
Smelled gas and called co EVERY TIME, They came EVERY TIME!
Smelled it at least 4 times from turn on until middle jan. 1997
They said they could not find it, as a matter of fact I felt as tho they thought I was "just smelling" something, as tho I didn't know what it should smell like.
From then, I had called approx 20 or more times, they came out each time, until Feb. 10, 2000, 42" of snow and "0" degrees, THEY SMELLED IT...I SAID GOOD NOW SHUT IT OFF, they did. Landlord had to call plumber to find 8 leaks and in 6 days they were fixed.
I knicked hand in april or so of 2000, waited for lesion...nothing...couple weeks later aahhh bo boo...nothing happened....I was so happy, no more lesions .......I noticed some of my other symptoms were lessening some...Getting better at most things until night of 1/27/2005 when I had the brain aneurysm rupture, all that "STUFF".
Then sept of 2005, ....lived in a home with oil heat that had leaked "unknowing to me" into the dirt basement floor. There was also mold, I moved, rented a room in a private home. There several months, getting sicker and sicker, noticed mold smell from finished basement that was owners bedroom. He took up carpet, cleaned it with the knowledge I had about that kind of problem, (I HAD TO LEARNED ALOT DUE TO MY CHEMICAL FREE CLEANING NEEDS), however he stirred everything up so much I had to move within a week. Next place, MOLD, moved, MOLD, moved, 3rd place in 5 months...Lesions everywhere, didn't grow as fast, from 9/ 2005 until now 2/1/ 2008 I've grown approx 30 or so...
NOW I KNOW THIS MOLD THINGS SOUNDS STRANGE, HOWEVER AFTER LOOKING AT THIS IN A LOGICAL MANNER AND WITH THE KNOWLEDGE COLLECTED...
Original injury-Long Term Pre Burned Natural Gas Leak
oct 1996-feb.10,2000
This type of chemical injury has not been studied by the medical community, as a matter of fact, it is unheard of in the area of injury...asphiciation and blowing up has been the ONLY knowledge given anywhere in science, medical and court systems......EXCEPT THOSE OF US THAT HAVE HAD LONG TERM EXPOSURES...
MOLD on the other hand is known to cause health problems in the completely healthy person although lesions have not been part of the story due to no one injured from gas being exposed to mold.
After thinking about this, it seems to me as tho the mold reactivated the chemical injury process.
SO WHAT DO YOU THINK?
NOW JUST TAKE A MINUTE TO LOOK AT THE TIME FRAME! WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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TODAY IS 3-12-05 AND AS OF 3-15-05 MY SITE WILL BE 4 YEARS OLD WITH OVER 1700 VISITORS, WHICH BY MY STANDARDS IS A CRYING SHAME. IT IS DUE TO THE INABILITY OF THE COMPANIES WHO MAKE CHEMICALS AND THE NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY TO JUST SIMPLY TELL US THE TRUTH, ALL THE TRUTH, HOWEVER!!!!!
AS FOR THE COURT CASE.... I'M STILL WAITING TO SEE THE COURT ROOM....I LOST MY ATTORNEY... HE SAID HE COULD NOT FIND A LITIGATING CO FOR THE 1&1/2 MILLION$ IT WOULD TAKE TO LITIGATE THIS CASE......OHHHH WELL, I'LL DO IT MYSELF....... WITH NO $$$$
AS FOR ME...out of the last 1000 days or so since this site started I have had about 40 GOOD DAYS...
VISITED HERE BEFORE? WROTE TO ME FROM CONTACT PAGE? DID YOU RECIEVE A REPLY? PLEASE REFRESH ME AND MY MAILBOX SO I MAY KEEP IN TOUCH NOW THAT I'M BACK ON-LINE!! 2008-02-04
PLEASE respond if you have written before, unfortunately my computer died and all the letters that were sent to me from all over the world as well as the responses I sent back have died as well. It would be great to show up in that court room with those letters, as was my plan, until that fateful day when my computer died. It can only help our cause. 
SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED AND IF APPROPIATE FOR IT TO BE LINKED TO THE GAS LEAK I WILL DO SO....I MUST DO ALOT OF RESEARCH FIRST....On 1-27-05 at approx 12:30 am I awoke to make a bathroom run. As I was getting back into bed I had a sudden erruption of pain. I sat there trying to talk myself out of it, It's okay Mary, it will go away. After several minutes I said out loud, LORD, PLEASE HELP ME! I made it downstairs to tell my son in law Tony that I needed to go to the hospital, he woke my daughter Vicki and she took me the 1/2 a block to the hospital. After ordering pain meds from the Dr. I don't really remember much else until I saw the white coat coming again, MORE PAIN MEDS NOW, (I sounded like Linda Blair in the Exorcist), he said, Mary let me look in your eyes first, he took a little flashlight from his shirt pocket, looked and said okay Mary it will take me a minute to get pain meds because i need to call for a helicopter first. Well my response was not lady like at all, " WHAT THE F_ _ _ DO I NEED A HELICOPTER FOR?" His reply was, "What you have we can't handle here!" I somewhat remember the ride but nothing else until days later when I was told that I had had 3 brain aneurysms and that 1 had ruptured. They had performed a 13 hour brain surgery on 1/28/05 in which I had a 2% chance of living, and if I lived I would be 1/2 paralized and or blind in both eyes. WELL, PRAISE GOD, HERE I AM..... ALIVE.....NOT PARALIZED.....FULL SIGHTED ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT QUITE RIGHT YET...one eye looks at you while the other is looking far right....I know that will correct itself in time...I have to much to live for.....THIS CASE!!!!!
