Just a thought and will need some help here....but shall we start a train to see if we can connect some dots as to why we have what we have. Lets start with location and than go from there.
Linds25-Grew up in Englewood Colorado, Currently living in Canada.
Cheesypops, Mostly N.Cali, Washington state. Currently living in Wa. State
Serenityseeker - grew up in Zion, IL north of Chicago (next to a nuclear power plant). Dad was full swedish, Mom was full German. Live in South Florida for the last 20 years. I am 45.
Born in California Bay Area. Moved to Northwest Arkansas and lived there for 8 years. Moved back to California upper redwood coast, and have lived here for 16 years.
I was an army brat. Born in Texas, moved to Germany, Kansas, Mississippi, Colorado, Indiana, Illinois, and for 34 years have lived in Texas.
I was born in Eaton Rapids, Michigan 17 miles south of Lansing, Mich. I lived in that area with my family which was mostly farm country. Just shortly before my 16 birthday my parents, one of my brother's and I moved to the Harrison, Michigan area in August of 1972. If any of you have ever been up this way in Michigan you know that it is mostly pines that grow here. I did live just a stones throw from a Salfa mill when I was living in the DownRiver area of Detroit when my first husband was still alive. I then moved back here to the Harrison area and that is where I have lived since.
Nikki
Born and raised in WA State, moved to a couple different cities there... Auburn, Federal Way, Tacoma, Puyallup, Sumner, Sequim, Port Angeles, Olympia.... then to Nevada, a year and a half ago...
That's kind-of it for me... I have been to a couple different states for vacations, such as Oregon, Idaho, and California; although I have visited Canada and Mexico, too, but only a day each.
Grew up on a farm in Ohio. Ancestry Swedish, English, little German, little French.
Lived in England for 3 years, 3 years in the panhandle of Florida, and 2 years in west texas
Born in NZ of Australian born parents of Italian and Irish, English and Scottish ancestry. Live in outer western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Three exceptions. Lived for 6mths in Upper Hunter Valley hamlet of Upper Rouchel, nr Scone NSW. 3 months spent in Britain and Europe and then a further 3mth period spent mostly in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Raised in Pennsylvania, but have lived in Florida for the last 35 years. Father full Swedish, Mother mix of German, English and Scottish ancestry.
Born in Florida, raised in Mobile, AL. As adult lived in New Orleans area 10 years where we drank the municipal water (Mississippi River), lived in Dallas area for 15 years, now live in Salado (central TX) for 10 years. I am 63. Environmental issues....I shake my head as I say this...I use to love the smell of pine sol to clean with and also bleach. Also, living on the gulf coast, we had our houses sprayed every month professionally for bugs and of course the city sprayed the streets several nights a week. Father-French Canadian, and Mother-Alabama
I grew up here in NC. Lived in Ft. Bragg, Fayetteville, Chapel Hill, Greensboro and now Summerfield.
I lived along the Mississippi River in central LA for the first 18 years of my life. A family treat was fresh catfish caught in the MS River or rivers which fed into it. Like Peggy our town was sprayed at least every other night for bugs, especially mosquitoes. Our town water was from wells. Cotton growers also use small airplanes to spray for weevils in cotton.
I STILL use Pine Sol and Bleach (infrequently) - should I be using something else?
I've in the Puget Sound for 22 years. I understand the frequency of sarc here is very high.
Hi I've been living in Birmingham Alabama all of my 49 years. Plenty of steel mills....my mother had sarcoid when she died, her baby brother has it now and his baby daughter has it. I am the baby of my moms children and the only one that has sarcoid. I'm thinking it could be the environment we all live in around steel plants, some type of polution. Every time I'm looking at Tv I'm seeing a lot of different lawyers representing everything but people who have Sarcoidosis and some are getting checks. (esbestus) I don't no how to spell it. I think we should be getting one also. Whether we worked in hospitals, corporations etc that did not have environment control. Let's hurry and find out since no one else is looking in to it....Let's Keep the Faith
Born 1955 in Chicago
Lived my whole life in Chicago/Suburban Chicago
Many years in Industrial area near chemical plant and worked there for a short time.
Ok i started a spread sheet and I think I will get in contact with the heads of this site to see if we can put something else together. Have to start somewhere right. I guess we should go something like this.
screen name/ age. location of birth and currently living location. Occupation and what form of Sarc you have as well as when you first got ill.
I know my buddy and I were dx at the same time but he lives in Colorado and I moved back to Canada. We went to the same Junior High together and I have been back in Canada for 12 years next month. I moved to Colorado in 1992 and moved back to Canada at the end of 1996. I did not get dx until June of 2007 but began getting sick winter of 2006. So I am also looking to see how long it is in our bodies before it presents its self.
Lets do this folks.......lets figure something out here and do something to make the world aware of what we are all doing to our health...
I was born in 1953 in Galesburg, IL. My parents had a boat and we spent a lot of time on the ole Mississippi River. We moved to Carmichael, CA in 1961. I currently live in Auburn, CA - about 30 miles from Sacramento in the Sierra Foothills.
I was diagnosed on August 1, 2008 with lung, liver, spleen, and bone marrow sarc. Interestingly, a person that I attend six meetings a year with was diagnosed on August 7th with lung sarc. We were in Murfreesboro, TN and New Orleans together in October 2007. We were in Napa, CA together in January 2007. In early Feb. she was diagnosed with pneumonia and given antibiotics. A week later we were together in Washington, DC. Then one week after that (3/8) I came down with a fever (102), chills, aches, and cough. The cough never went completely away and I became increasingly short of breath.
Hi all,
I hope this finds you all well.
I live in Pennsylvania. And have lived here all my life.
I did live within 5 miles of Three Mile Island.
Take care.
Peace & Love,
Karen
Born in East Tennessee. Close to the mountains. Everybody there seemed very healthy.
My mother was Scottish-Irish and my Dad was French-Indian.
Lived the last 48 years in Illinois in far western suburbs of Chicago. worked as a nurse for 40 years. There is supposed to be a high percentage of Sarc found in nurses.
Born in Charleston, SC, went to school in NC, moved with military husband overseas, settled in NC, where I now live.
Howdy,
Born in the Middle of Michigan. Live in a farming community with a large elevator. Our town was studied by the state since we had many diagnosed with Hodgkins. Of course nothing came out of the study...
Am 49, was diagnosed in July of 2007, sarc in my lymph nodes and joints. Was an orthodontic assistant for almost 30 years. Mom died of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
Father/German-Scott Mother/Dutch
Hope this helps the cause,
Marcy(aka bassetlover)
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