Posted by Dinah on November 15, 2005, at 22:28:19
In reply to Re: A short conversation from today, posted by Phillipa on November 15, 2005, at 22:19:45
Well, there's the Katrina cough. Mold, sheetrock dust. But people are healthier than they seem. The hepatitis outbreaks and everything that they were expecting didn't come to pass.
On the other hand, I hear there are a fair number of accidents, probably to do with the high stress levels. And short term memory problems are becoming expected. And our old people are really paying the price of all this stress and change. My father in law died, my grandmother in law's in intensive care, and unfortunately that's not particularly unusual. You hear people talk about similar things with the elderly everywhere you go.
I think stress will be the biggest health problem in the area.
Oh, and bugs. Definitely. We've had gnats in our house since we moved back. They're just starting to die down. I think they've started spraying again so mosquitos aren't as bad as they might be. But flies are just about everywhere. As far as I can tell it's more annoying than a health threat though.
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