Input:                      taken from this year's Christmas cards

My doctor asked if this had been a stressful year?  As I thought about it, I said, yes, mom died in Oct.  Then I thought about it some more, and I realized that it was also the year I learned of my son’s health damage from a job he took at 18 years old on the Exxon Valdez Oil spill cleanup.  They put him on an experimental project which would have damaged the health of all the workers… no appropriate gear for the long hours of exposure… & very strong chemical: Inipol EAP 22 (poison 12% by weight was a surfactant 2-butoxyethanol) *

 … that’s my opinion after a lot of research.

I felt it my task to learn about it when EPA & OSHA weren’t helpful;

Inipol EAP 22 was Exxon’s trial product & I believe they ‘buried’ the evidence of the damage they did to these workers & to the environment.  Sadly, they are still using it, and charging a lot for it, too; a bad product at that!  www.valdezlink.com/inipol 

My son has been successful in life.  But I never realized the exhaustion, the depression that he's been dealing with all this time:  since his first semester in college, he told me recently.  He has 3 little children he loves and wants to raise;  he & his wife  love each other & want to live a long life together.

Response Letter: 

December 24, 2002

My heart goes out to my dear, dear friend. Remember our family get-togethers in Washington State? Your son was such a sweet, talented serious-minded young man. What happened to him should never happen to anyone. I was stunned to hear of this!  

I am not the same!

As parents you sacrifice so much to give to your children - make sure that they have all you can give them for a successful start in life. And then something terrible like this happens. I want to get this to he movie industry and exploit the 'Exxon tragedy of innocent people young and old' to the public like "Erin Brockovich." I am so sorry... my heart goes out to them!