Fw: DU/It hurt (Terry) too. He said it was like forcing (semen) thru barbed wire

January 9, 2009

OUCH!!!!!!

"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." -Mark Twain --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Cal <calgirlsddd85021 wrote:

Cal <calgirlsddd85021[reality101_redux] DU/It hurt (Terry) too. He said it was like forcing (semen) thru barbed wireWednesday, January 7, 2009, 7:06 AM

Terry, a security captain, served in intelligence during the war: his service record refers to his setting up a “safe haven” in the Iraqi “theatre.” Possibly, Susan speculates, this led him behind enemy lines and exposed him to DU during the long aerial bombing campaign that preceded the 1991 invasion. In any event, “when he came home, he didn’t really come home,” she says.

At first, Terry merely had the usual headaches, body pain, oozing rash, and other symptoms. But later he began to suffer from another symptom which afflicts some of those exposed to DU: burning semen. “If he leaked a little lubrication from his penis, it would feel like sunburn on your skin. If you got to the point where you did have intercourse, you were up and out of that bed so fast — it actually causes vaginal blisters that burst and bleed.”

“It hurt [Terry] too. He said it was like forcing [semen] through barbed wire,” Riordon says. “It seemed to burn through condoms; if he got any on his thighs or his testicles, he was in hell.” In a last, desperate attempt to save their sex life, says Riordon, “I used to fill condoms with frozen peas and insert them [after sex] with a lubricant.” That, she says, made her pain just about bearable. Perhaps inevitably, he became impotent. “And that was like our last little intimacy gone.”

Rose reports Susan’s description of Terry’s last days:

By late 1995, Terry was seriously deteriorating. Susan shows me her journal-she titled it “The Twilight Zone” — and his medical record. It makes harrowing reading. He lost his fine motor control to the point where he could not button his shirt or zip his fly. While walking, he would fall without warning. At night, he shook so violently that the bed would move across the floor.

He became unpredictably violent: one terrible day in 1997 he attacked their 16-year-old son and started choking him. By the time armed police arrived to pull him off, the boy’s bottom lip had turned blue. After such rages, he would fall into a deep sleep for as long as 24 hours, and awake with no memory of what had happened. That year, Terry and Susan stopped sleeping in the same bedroom. Then “he began to barricade himself in his room for days, surviving on granola bars and cartons of juice.”

As he went downhill, Terry was assessed as completely disabled, but there was no diagnosis as to why. His records contain references to “somatization disorder,” post-traumatic stress, and depression. . .Through 1998 and 1999, he began to lose all cognitive functions and was sometimes lucid for just a few hours each week. . .

Shortly before Terry Riordan’s death, Susan learned about Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and former professor of Nuclear Medicine at Georgetown University. After the Gulf war, the Department of Veterans Affairs put Durakovic in charge of Nuclear Medicine Service at its Medical Center in Wilmington, Delaware. By the time Susan Riordan contacted him, the military had tossed him away like a radioactive potato because of his research into the effects of depleted uranium and his unwillingness to hide his findings from suffering veterans and their puzzled loved ones.

Quoting Rose again:

Susan received Dr. Durakovic’s urine-test results-showing a high DU concentration eight years after Terry was presumably exposed. She reported that the results came through on a Monday. “Tuesday he was reasonably cognitive, and was able to tell me that he wanted his body and organs to go to Dr. Durakovic,” she remembers. “He knew it was too late to help him, but he made me promise that his body could help the international community .. . . On Thursday, he was dead.”

“It was a very strange death. He was very peaceful. I’ve always felt that Asaf allowed Terry to go: knowing he was DU-positive meant he wasn’t crazy anymore. Those last days he was calm. He wasn’t putting the phone in the microwave; he had no more mood swings.”

After Riordon’s death, Dr. Durakovic and his colleagues found accumulations of DU in his bones and lungs.

http://www.notinkansas.us/du_3.html

Revised May 20, 2006

Depleted Uranium for Dummiesby Irving Wesley Hall

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