We used to flea bomb too, most likely with D-con.

Ted



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From: "DAVID LEWIN" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 5:05 AM
Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc


> Rick,
> What product did you use when you flea bombed your band house?  I can
> trace
> my PD onset back to incidents when I flea bombed my house 2X.  I believe I
> used D-Con.  David
>
>
>>From: Rick McGirr <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network
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>>Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc
>>Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:00:06 -0400
>>
>>I think both viewpoints below are correct.  To think of my mom, who
>>still has her wits about her at 90, bounding across a savannah, well,
>>it would make a good cartoon.  Modern life allows the survival of
>>folks, even when they have trouble getting around, like Mom.  And I
>>think my mom's input and her example have kept the family alive and
>>thriving.  These days natural selection favors those animals with
>>access to health care.
>>
>>I think they might discover that PD comes from a bad gene, that the
>>bad gene was due to something in the parents' environment somewhere,
>>between the original chicken/egg and now, and that the disease is
>>triggered by unnatural things in the offspring's environment.
>>
>>My mom has essential tremor, my son has Tourette's, and I'm sitting
>>pretty in the middle with PD.  Is there a single gene that we share?
>>What could my mom or her parents have been exposed to?  You never
>>know.  Abraham Lincoln took mercury pills for his melancholia.  I was
>>exposed to the residue of pesticide immediately after we flea-bombed
>>our band house long ago, multiple times.  Three, I think.
>>
>>Enjoy Fall!
>>Rick McGirr
>>Email: [log in to unmask]
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>>From: "Mary Ann Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:40 AM
>>Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc
>>
>>
>>>.
>>>Joe wrote:
>>>I'm not discounting Natural Selection or the idea that the older you
>>>are the
>>>more likely you will be sick but I don't think Nature acts to
>>>deliberately
>>>weed out the old in order to make room for offspring, indeed one
>>>theory is
>>>that having older members of a tribe around, especially
>>>grandmothers, leads
>>>to higher survival rates for the children
>>>-------------
>>>On the contrary, the well understood process of aging in humans
>>>points to
>>>the actual breaking down of the body.  Anyone who has watched a
>>>person reach
>>>their 80s (and beyond) will notice that weight is lost, the appetite
>>>decreases, movement slows, bones become brittle and the immune
>>>system fails.
>>>Slowly, nature insures that the elderly will be eliminated.
>>>
>>>While it is true that grandmothers were essential for the success of
>>>the
>>>human race (watched the kids while mom and dad sought food for the
>>>tribe),
>>>please keep in mind that those grandmothers were probably in their
>>>late
>>>thirties and forties.  It was extremely rare for grandma to reach 80
>>>way
>>>back when moving quickly through the savanna was essential in order
>>>not to
>>>be eaten.
>>>
>>>PD is certainly another way that the body breaks down.  The big
>>>question
>>>is....why and how does the disease occur?
>>>---------
>>>God bless
>>>Mary Ann (CG Jamie 66/26 with PD)
>>>
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