[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCc: "Veterans, families have lingering questions about contamination even as VA starts disability compensation, " Camp Lejeune, NC

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Veterans, families have lingering questions about contamination even as VA starts disability compensation

By Adam Wagner and Kevin Maurer 
GateHouse Media/Jacksonville Daily News (NC)
March 25, 2017

JACKSONVILLE -- When Wayne Rummings left Buffalo, N.Y., in 1983 to enlist in the U.S. Navy, he could not have known he would find himself in the middle of one of the largest cases of water contamination in the nation's history.

Camp Lejeune's 34 years of water contamination ended in 1987, while Rummings was still serving as a medic at the sprawling Onslow County base. He did not feel the effects for years until, in 2010, he thought he had kidney stones. His doctor suspected something else was amiss when Rummings wasn't crying from pain and ordered a CT scan.

Seven years later, Rummings is recovering from a bout with kidney cancer -- one of the hallmark diseases of Camp Lejeune water poisoning. Recounting the ordeal recently, Rummings sat at his dining room table, a compression sleeve on his right arm in an effort to numb the painful throbbing a nervous system condition shoots through his fingertips.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.jdnews.com/news/20170325/legacy-of-pain-for-camp-lejune-water-contamination-victims

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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