hi alexandra,
thanks for the reply, sorry it's taken so long to reply. you must be so angry
at the process of business & gov't etc. i know i would be furious. hope it's
all going ok. regards, lisa.



> Alexandra <alex@...> wrote:
>
> Lisa,
>
> G'day! ( My in laws are headed to your fantastic Country in a week.
> I'm so jealous!)
>
>
>
> That was me. My daughter Alexandra was the child that the doctors
> found a Lead deposit in her left femur.
> They found it when they did x-rays during her second round of
> chelation in hospital. Her Lead levels were SO high that we had to use
> medical intervention.
>
> Her story and the x-ray was supposed to be included in the 2006
> October issue of National Geographic photo essay by Peter Essig on
> toxic enviroments around the world which included a Lead smelting town
> in AUS, but they used a pathetic photo of her younger sister who also
> had a measureable level of Lead, but not even close to little Alex's
> levels because it made for a more sympathetic photo. The photo of my
> youngest (Christine age 4 at the time) was staged. He made the her
> stand next to my neighbor's house and made it look like she played in
> Lead chips that has fallen from the neighbor's home.(neighbor was in
> full repainting mode of his home and missed cleaning some scraps)I
> thought at least THAT magazine would be ethical enough to tell the
> truth and use the right kid for the photo!
>
> I live in a Western Cleveland suburb called Lakewood. I am actually on
> Lake Erie. IT is A LOT prettier than all the worldwide jokes about
> Cleveland(I moved here from San Diego) I have home built in 1911.
> Cleveland is home to Sherwin-Williams the largest manufacturer of
> (Leaded) paints. In 1972 leaded paint was finally outlawed by the
> Environmental Protection Agency. I know for a fact that most painters
> still used all their Lead paint supplies until well near 1980. The
> paint stocks were not thrown out, but still used until new paints were
> reformulated minus the lead. Cleveland refused to join a Class Action
> Lawsuit against Sherwin Williams because of politics. Cleveland has
> the 3rd highest rate of Lead poisoning in the country behind New York
> and Chicago. Because of how hard the local economy has hit this
> region, the Mayor of Cleveland won't get involved because Sherwin
> Williams employees thousands of local Clevelanders and provides pays
> millions in local taxes....much more important to Mayor Frank Jackson
> than a little white child in a moderately well to do suburb who had
> the highest Lead levels in Cuyahoga county in 10 years in 2002 and who
> was the poster child for the Cleveland Health Department's "Lead Safe
> Living Campaign" in 2006...
>
> Alex has the Lead deposit and neurological damage.
>
>
> Sorry for the novel!
>
> Alexandra in Lakewood
>
>
>
>
> --- In LeadedKids@yahoogroups.com, "lisajamieferguson" <Lisajamie@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > can't remember which message it was, but someone mentioned their
> child has lead left in
> > their femur. sorry to hear this.
> > do u mind if i ask how you could tell this?
> > many thanks, lisa in newcastle, australia.
> >