Opponents of fracking have long warned of the dangers to people who live close to wells — either from contaminated water or, as in this case, dangerously polluted air. Lisa, a stay-at-home mom, said that in November 2008 she started feeling sick to her stomach and suffered from blinding headaches. She brushed it off as the flu, but she didnt get better. She got worse. Soon, she said, she developed a mysterious rash all over her body and open sores that never healed. Sometimes she had trouble standing and became disoriented. Once the rashes and sores became so severe that emergency room doctors had to pack her body in ice. Her daughter, then in first grade, had horrible nosebleeds as she slept and would awaken soaked in blood. Her husband began to have memory problems. We went to eight different doctors. None of them could figure it out, Lisa Parr said. Their calves were born with birth defects, and their pets began to die [...] The tests found BTEX — benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene — all colorless but toxic chemicals typically found in petroleum products. Lisa took the findings to her doctor. My doctor told me I needed to move out immediately or I would spend more time and money on hospitalizations, chemotherapy and a mortician, she said. latimes/nation/la-na-fracking-lawsuit-20140424,0,508199.story?page=2#ixzz2zqOmTOTy
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