Went to my oncologist today for another four month checkup.  Lab work is excellent!  Three years w/out cancer and counting.  I may hate giving up dairy, sugar, etc. but it sure feels good to get such wonderful reports.  I now can switch to six month visits.   

Anyway, my oncologist studied Agent Orange - the defoliant the U.S. used in Vietnam to defoliate trees - when he worked on the East Coast and had several lymphoma patients who had been exposed to agent orange.  They had asked him to write a letter to a senate subcommittee. 

He brought this knowledge to New Mexico when he moved here a few years ago.  One of his NM patients is a former forest service man who said that Agent Orange was used in the Arizona and New Mexico deserts to defoliate Mesquite and Creosote trees because they were/are becoming invasive.  

I don't know if this has anything to do with trying to reclaim or preserve grazing land for the many, many herds of cattle we have down here, but my oncologist thinks the Agent Orange has had an effect on the water here.  Anyone ever heard of this?  I'm wondering if the cattle themselves were contaminated through the grass, or the spraying, ...     As I recall, Agent Orange has a long life.  Right?

Kath