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Forestry Industries pollution.
  Our health just doesn't magically improve on the days forestry decide not to burn!   

Could you live like I was forced to?   When you read about the harmful effects of smoke you more than likely will.

Maximum daily/hourly doses of Symbicort, Singulair, Intal Forte, Foradile, Alvesco, Atrovent, Ventolin, Prednisolone, Clexane, Warfarin, Panadine Forte, Endone, Oxygen. 

Hospitalised with Chronic Airflow limitation – in other words can’t breathe. Painful procedure to take arterial blood to monitor blood gasses. Insert cannula into other arm for 'normal' bloods. x-Ray, Pain in chest, distress. 

Sat in chair unable to breathe locked away in “home detention” for weeks breathing smoke trying to recuperate. Health Department says to stay indoors but according to a builder friend it is all but impossible to air tight a home, and I know this from my engineering background, so I was still inhaling smoke that had reached unity indoors, ie, unity = 1, or as bad indoors as outdoors.

Asthma exacerbation continued. Hospitalised second time. Cannula. Ultrasound, clots in leg and DVT. Nuclear scans, clots travelled to lungs. Introduced injections and blood thinning pills, pain relief. 

Hospitalised again 3rd time for pain relief of clots in the leg. Put on max panadine forte and Endone. Legs all swollen, can barely walk even when on max meds because of pain. 

Awake at night, every night for months now. Usually only get 2 hours sleep because of pain and medication side effects.

Respiratory specialist attendance.

Follow up nuclear scans and x-Ray requiring cannula.

4th admittance to Accident and Emergency, sudden onset short of breath, lung pain, X-Ray, cannula, bloods.

Cardiac specialist for echo cardiogram to see if clots have damaged my heart

Further respiratory specialist visits, various GP visits, pathology visits for blood, vascular specialist visit to sort out leg pain/clots, and so on scheduled for down the track.  This is coming out of your health budget!

I still wait for the Director of Public Health, the Minister for Health and the Minister for Environment to respond to me on these serious health issues. No one in this State, it would seem, is responsible for this smoke pollution and for deliberately damaging our health. (See the Correspondence Page).

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