From: "eliseamartin" To: Subject: [cherubs] Re: Agent Orange/chemicals Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 8:14 AM Tara, Even if it was before your birth, chemicals can have some sort of issue with sperm, eggs, etc. - chemicals stay in the body. Elise, Mommy to Noah, in the terrible 3s --- In cherubs@yahoogroups.com, TARAJEFF@... wrote: > > This is an interesting question and has me thinking. My father has recently > found out that his COPD and related health issues and O2 dependency is not > all from his aneurysm and long term smoking but from chemical exposure when he > was in the military. I have emailed him to see if this exposure was before or > after my birth. I am wondering if somehow although I am unaffected (at least > I think so LOL DH may say otherwise) if this could have affected my > fertility (have one CDH child and one miscarriage). Just has me thinking. Won't > change anything as we aren't having any more children but would like to know. > > Tara > > Mom to Brandon 7/17/96 LCDH repaired six times, ECMO seven days, nissen and > g-tube at three weeks, g-tube removed at five years, slight scoliosis, ADHD, > aunt to Jonathon 8/23/93 hereditary spherocytosis may need splenectomy in > future, FAE/ADHD who lives with us > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >