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Date Posted: 22:35:45 10/20/03 Mon
Author: Kelli
Subject: It's tough, SM
In reply to: SM78 's message, "Hi Kelli" on 13:40:27 10/20/03 Mon

Thanks, SM. By the way, as the story doesn't really make this totally clear, mine wasn't one of a sampling of local breastmilk tested; mine was the only breastmilk tested. Despite attempts to alert people of the need for samples via ads and such, my friend tells me I was the sole person who volunteered breastmilk samples.

What do you do? Well, the first thing you do is call up your researcher friend for some more reasurance, which she was happy to give. She already held my hand a fair amount when she told me a couple of months ago (before they published) that perchlorate was, indeed, present in my milk. She said to not panic. To just look at my kids: they're both obviously bright and healthy, thank god. She said that, at any rate, perchlorate has likely been present in this area for at least sixty years or more, and that when you're talking about a percentage of people who might someday have greater chances of developing neurological problems/disease linked to perchlorate, a lot of factors come into play; it's not a given. Nothing's set in stone, stuff like that.

All of which I know intellectually, but still, when I think about it...well, you're a parent. You know there's nothing, nothing in this world as intense as your feelings for your kids. I think about it, and I get mad. I get mad when I think of that bastard, George dubya, who probably schedules time every morning to fellate those same CEO-type sons of bitches who've dumped that and god knows what other chemicals over the years into the land my kids live and play on. Dubya's environmental record as governor of Texas is absolutely horrible, but almost half the population obviously either didn't know, or didn't care come election time. That makes me mad as hell, too.

So I'm goddamned mad. And also very helpless. You know, I've seen nary a peep about that story on my local newscasts. You'd think folks around here would want, need, to hear about it, but there's just not that much time between the crack coverage of the grand opening of a new Crispy Cream, weekly "Power of Prayer" segments, daily Focus on the Family segments featuring the loveable old Dr. Dobson himself (I kid you not), and obviously the most-watched, sports, to fit in any mention of the story of our alarmingly high perchlorate levels. I'll email it to local news outlets, but I'll truly be surprised if anyone reports it.

After all, despite yet another recent tuition hike at Texas Tech, there's evidently no money to follow up on it, anyway.

Sometimes it seems like Oz here, man.

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