Fort Carson Soldier's Life Saved by 12 Year Old

Soldier: 12-year-old boy saved my life
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by Nick Dutton
October 12, 2013

LAKE GEORGE, Colo. (KRDO) — A soldier is crediting a 12-year-old boy with saving his life after rough waters tipped over his kayak in Lake George, Colorado.

“I was fearing for my life,” said Staff Sgt. Wesley Patton, a Fort Carson soldier.

Patton never dreamed something bad would happen when he went out on the 11-mile reservoir.

But once the water turned choppy, his kayak flipped last Sunday.

Luckily, 12-year-old Adin Pruett and his dad were fishing nearby.

“I yelled to him, “Are you okay?’ And he said, “Uh yeah,’” Pruett

However, things quickly took a turn as the kayak filled with water and the boat began to pull him under.

That’s because Patton was tangled in his nets and fishing gear while the kayak began to sink. At that point, Adin said he asked again if Patton needed help. He replied that he did.

Adin then started tossing anything from his boat to save him.
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Asthma, Stress Found Years After 9/11 Attacks

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Exposure to dust at the World Trade Center increased the chance of asthma. (By Alex Fuchs -- Associated Press)


Asthma, Stress Found Years After 9/11 Attacks


Office workers, rescuers and others directly exposed to the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks reported new cases of asthma and symptoms of post-traumatic stress five to six years later, according to a study in the Aug. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Exposure to dust clouds, especially among rescuers who worked atop the pile of rubble, increased the likelihood of developing asthma.

The data come from the World Trade Center Health Registry, which tracks 71,437 of the approximately 409,000 adults who personally witnessed the attacks. A total of 46,322 people in four categories -- rescue workers, lower Manhattan residents, office workers and passers-by -- responded to surveys in 2006 and 2007 about their health.

Slightly more than 10 percent of respondents had developed asthma; 39 percent of those reported intense dust cloud exposure.

The prevalence of post-traumatic stress symptoms, which indicate probable post-traumatic stress disorder, has increased from 14.3 percent, when the researchers first interviewed the subjects in 2003 and 2004, to 19 percent in this new wave of surveys. Factors that increased the likelihood of post-traumatic stress included witnessing people jumping from the towers, being injured and knowing someone who died in the attack. Researchers asked the subjects about symptoms such as flashbacks and emotional numbness.
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Asthma, Stress Found Years After 9 11 Attacks

Asthma, PTSD still linger for NYC 9/11 survivors

Asthma, PTSD still linger for NYC 9/11 survivors
By DEEPTI HAJELA (AP) – 2 hours ago

NEW YORK — People who were heavily exposed to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center still had elevated risks of developing post-traumatic stress disorder even five years later, according to a study released Tuesday by the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

The study contained better news about asthma. While those who developed respiratory symptoms soon after the attacks were still being diagnosed with asthma some years later, rates among people who first showed symptoms after 2003 were consistent with normal asthma rates.

"What this study shows fairly thoroughly, there was a very strong association between the intense exposure" on Sept. 11 and the days immediately following, in terms of developing asthma, said Lorna Thorpe, deputy commissioner for epidemiology and a co-author of the study.

"There were lingering effects, but those lingering effects have ameliorated."

The study, based on data from a public health registry that tracks the health effects of Sept. 11, found elevated levels of post-traumatic stress disorder among the more than 46,000 people who were surveyed in 2006-2007.

Rescue and recovery workers had the highest rates of new asthma diagnoses, and their risk was even higher if they were at the World Trade Center site on 9/11 itself or worked there for longer than 90 days. People who had to deal with heavy layers of dust in their homes or offices also had a higher risk of developing asthma.

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Asthma, PTSD still linger for NYC 9/11 survivors

Asthma sufferer found dead in Canton hospital's parking lot

Asthma sufferer found dead in Canton hospital's parking lot
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:24 PM


CANTON REPOSITORY VIA AP
CANTON -- A woman was found dead in her pickup truck in the parking lot of an Ohio hospital 17 hours after driving herself there for help.

The coroner in Canton is awaiting tests to determine the cause of death for 49-year-old Nancy Dugan, who had a history of asthma attacks.
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9/11 survivors troubled by asthma, PTSD

9/11 survivors troubled by asthma, PTSD
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Working group looked at more than 100 studies done since 2001

Survivors reported higher levels of PTSD and respiratory problems such as asthma

More federal funds needed for medical services for at-risk groups, panel says

By Andrea Kane
CNN

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On September 11, 2001, Kathryn Freed watched from two blocks away as a plane hit the World Trade Center's north tower.

"Honestly, it was so surreal," Freed said. "We heard the plane coming -- it was very low and very loud -- and we watched it go right over our heads; we just watched it hit dead center the north tower. I stood there and watched the skin of the building come off. It looked like tinsel from a Christmas tree falling down."

A short while later, Freed saw the second plane plow through the south tower in a giant fireball. And as she headed back toward her apartment, four blocks from what was soon to be known as ground zero, the south tower collapsed, sending a plume of debris into the air and straight down her street.

Freed believes that the lingering cloud of dust -- caused by the towers' collapse and the digging out of ground zero -- caused some of her long- and short-term medical problems, such as her "WTC cough" and other respiratory issues.

She's among the many residents of lower Manhattan, emergency responders, recovery workers, commuters and passers-by to have developed serious, sometimes chronic medical problems since the terrorist attack seven years ago.

A commission charged with examining the scope and depth of the attack's health effects reviewed more than 100 scientific articles published since 2001 and found that new asthma levels among residents and rescue workers were two to three times higher than the national estimates.

The report by the World Trade Center Medical Working Group, issued in advance of the September 11 anniversary, also found that two to three years after the attack, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder remained elevated among rescue and recovery workers and residents of lower Manhattan.

But the most reassuring finding was that in all the studies they looked at, there was consistency.

"The primary finding of the report, as you synthesize the main findings from more than 100 peer review articles on the health ramifications of 9/11, is that the findings are very similar across the studies," Lorna Thorpe said. Thorpe, the deputy commissioner in the Division of Epidemiology at New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, is a member of the Medical Working Group.
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It would have been a wonderful memorial to take care of all the rescue workers who rushed in to help and came from all other the country, but they didn't. Too many have been dying for the simple fact they acted to help. They lost jobs because they became ill on that day. They lost family members because too many felt it was their duty to go there and help. Police officers, firefighters, construction workers, all rushed in to help and they have been paying the price ever since but no one has paid attention to any of them. Healthcare has been denied and the debt we owed to all of them has yet to be paid. kc

Michael Savage says "Autism is a brat, fraud and racket"

One more example of free speech and an ass who gets paid to prove it.

On July 16, the No. 3 syndicated radio talk show host in the country, Michael Savage, made the following statement on autism:
"Now, you want me to tell you my opinion on autism? ... A fraud, a racket."
Savage went on to say:
Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is.
What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, "Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot."

Autism -- everybody has an illness. If I behaved like a fool, my father called me a fool. And he said to me, "Don't behave like a fool." The worst thing he said -- "Don't behave like a fool. Don't be anybody's dummy. Don't sound like an idiot. Don't act like a girl. Don't cry." That's what I was raised with. That's what you should raise your children with. Stop with the sensitivity training. You're turning your son into a girl, and you're turning your nation into a nation of losers and beaten men. That's why we have the politicians we have.

During the same broadcast, Savage also attacked those in "the minority community" who suffer from asthma. He stated: "[W]hy was there an asthma epidemic amongst minority children? Because I'll tell you why: The children got extra welfare if they were disabled, and they got extra help in school. It was a money racket. Everyone went in and was told [fake cough], 'When the nurse looks at you, you go [fake cough], "I don't know, the dust got me." ' See, everyone had asthma from the minority community."
Michael Savage's mean-spirited comments are disgusting and are an affront to basic decency.
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The Savage Nation reaches at least 8.25 million listeners each week, according to Talkers Magazine, making it one of the most listened-to talk radio shows in the nation, behind only The Rush Limbaugh Show and The Sean Hannity Show.

Your voice is critical in holding Savage accountable for his comments. I hope you take the time to call and tell those running the station exactly what you think of Michael Savage.
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FDA Investigates Suicide With Merck Drug Singulair

FDA Investigates Suicide With Merck Drug
By MATTHEW PERRONE | AP Business Writer
4:29 PM EDT, March 27, 2008

WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it is investigating a possible link between Merck's best-selling Singulair and suicide. FDA said it is reviewing a handful of reports involving mood changes, suicidal behavior and suicide in patients who have taken the popular allergy and asthma drug.

Merck has updated the drug's labeling four times in the past year to include information on a range of reported side effects: tremors, anxiousness, depression and suicidal behavior.

FDA said it asked the Whitehouse, N.J.-based company to dig deeper into its data on Singulair for evidence of possible links to suicide. The agency said it has not established a "causal relationship" between Merck's drug and suicidal behavior. An agency spokeswoman said the review was prompted by three to four suicide reports it received since last October.

It could take up to nine months before agency scientists can draw any conclusions, FDA said in a posting to its Web site.
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Asthma Linked to PTSD

A few weeks ago this was just making the news. I've been reading about it and there has been no counter evidence. I'm going to let this stand.

Reported November 19, 2007
Asthma Linked to PTSD
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- There may be a link between asthma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

A new study from Columbia University looked at 3,065 male twin pairs who had lived together in their childhood and served on active military duty during the Vietnam War. It found patients with the most PTSD symptoms were 2.3 times as likely to have asthma compared with those with the least PTSD symptoms.

The study included both identical twins who share all the same genetics, and fraternal twins who share only half. Researchers say if there had been a strong genetic reason for the link between asthma and PTSD the results between the two types of twins would have been different, but they were not.

The report confirms previous findings that linked asthma with a higher risk of depression. And other studies have found a link between asthma and other anxiety disorders.

“No one knows the reason for the association between asthma and mental disorders,” lead researcher Renee D. Goodwin, Ph.D., M.P.H., Columbia University, was quoted as saying. “Asthma could increase the risk of anxiety disorders, or anxiety disorders might cause asthma, or there could be common risk factors for both asthma and anxiety disorders. Our study found the association between asthma and PTSD does not appear to be primarily due to a common genetic predisposition.”

The authors believe it is possible traumatic stress -- which has been associated with compromised immune functioning -- can lead to an increased vulnerability to immune-system-related diseases such as asthma.
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