Hi mlb
Hi everyone on the thread; I've read all the posts here and find them very interesting; now to my point, do any of you know of anyone handling pesticides sick with ALS; I am blaming pesticides for my husband getting sick, he applied pesticides for twenty three yrs. as a Duster pilot, this was done in Mexico, were pesticides that were not permitted in the States, were used here; although none of the Neurologist who saw him though this had anything to do with ALS.
On Aug. 4th, 1980, on a very hot day more than 120 degrees, around two o'clock in the afternoon, one of the hoses broke he aspired the pesticide lost consciousness and his plane fell down, thank God it didn't get on fire and people working for him on ground took him out from the plane rapidly and was taken to the hospital, at that time he only had a finger and two broken ribs beside the aspiring of the pesticide; his body hurt all over, (COMPREHENSIBLE), the plane was left unusable, (IF YOU COULD SEE A PICTURE, YOU WOULD SAY, HOW DID THIS MAN SURVIVED).
I still think it was his exposure to pesticides that got him sick, since he kept on flying for yrs. after that experience. He started having symptoms on June 2005, was Dx on October same yr. and right now cannot move, still eats but it takes him 90 minutes to do so, wouldn't go for a PEG, we can barely understand what he speaks, he's was an arms onset; by the way he had stopped flying as a duster pilot on 2002 and was opening a Commercial Flying School, when he suddenly started showing weird symptoms, since I had my son's medical books from the Medicine Faculty (he's a doctor). I started looking for a term to apply to the weird movements I was seeing on his back. (Fasciculations and got to the MND, ALS) tests were done, us praying for a different diagnostic, the Neurologist who gave the Dx was one of my son's teachers at the Medicine Faculty.
He could still walk with help on January 2006.
Thank you all for reading such a long post.
Sincerely,
CAN ANY ONE TELL ME IF THEY THINK I AM RIGHT?
I WOULD APPRECIATE IT A LOT.
SINCERELY,
Paty
Baja California, Mexico