{"id":17,"date":"2006-08-29T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelhammedlock.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/29\/12\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T18:24:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T23:24:19","slug":"12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelhammedlock.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 130%; font-family: georgia; color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">One Year Ago Today, Do you remember?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nFor most of us it was a normal day, except that we were watching the storm on TV as it was hammering the Gulf of Mexico. I also remember that I was a little tired but just figured it was the hours I was putting in a day, at the office, on the farm and around the house. I even told people that I was just trying to get some attention, I really wasn&#8217;t. You know being married to a nurse in the ER your little aches and pains ain&#8217;t nothing compared to what she has experienced in an 8 to 12 hour shift. Now if something is wrong she will be the first to start nursing me back to health, but the whinnying to get attention won&#8217;t work with a nurse.<\/p>\n<p>Well come November 2005 after a whole lot of testing was when I was diagnosed with liver trouble. Wow that was the last thing I could have came up with! The doctor had told me for some time that I had a fatty liver, that didn&#8217;t surprise me due to the fact that I had fat every where else. The doctor then told me that a whole lot of people had fat in their liver. People over weight, perfect weight, and below weight. This usually don&#8217;t cause a problem, but in a small percentage of people it does cause the liver to be damaged.<\/p>\n<p>In my family history there is a gene that a lot of the family has or is a carrier of the gene, which causes damage. In my case I have been test since I started going to Charleston, MUSC and I don&#8217;t have the gene. The doctors also questioned my job, but I could not give them any specific chemical I had been exposed to, and I told them that was about 25 years of fire. They told me that they had no data on Arson Investigators.<\/p>\n<p>If I could spread two words to every one out there, be tested for the gene and if you are in a hazardous environment protect yourself, skin and lungs. I am now trying to echo what Lt. Doug Ross has been teaching about exposure, there is no need to risk your health for an investigation. Dead or sick heros can&#8217;t save any more lives!<\/p>\n<p>God Bless You &amp; Keep Safe,<\/p>\n<p>Lightning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Year Ago Today, Do you remember? For most of us it was a normal day, except that we were watching the storm on TV as it was hammering the Gulf of Mexico. I also remember that I was a little tired but just figured it was the hours I was putting in a day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelhammedlock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelhammedlock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelhammedlock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelhammedlock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelhammedlock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pelhammedlock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/pelhammedlock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelhammedlock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelhammedlock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelhammedlock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}