Hey all,
How are are you doing today? My name is Adam Mullin and at the
moment I live in San Francisco. I am 23, and found out when I was 14
when living in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. I had an often
younger voice at the time, no pubic hair, and had Asthma continually
along with become depressed very easily or barely being able to
finish the "mile" for my middle schools physical education program.
After taking the injection every 2 weeks, and at age 17 I became not
only more active, but I began to feel more comfortable with people
and wasn't near as depressed and tired as I was prior. I began to
take walks much longer than one mile. In school I could learn and
comprehend much better, as well as get a long better. I felt
motivated and inspired at 16 and since to get jobs and volunteer. So
I've graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans (in Fall of
2006), and now with four books published ,computer animation classes,
and jobs, and walking diagonal streets of SF and the California
countryside, I enjoy being busy.
Now back to why I think I received it or grew up with it. My Dad
when I was younger ran a plastics manufacturing plant. My Mom had
indicated that in comparison to my other brothers (I, being the
middle){6 years from my older, and 3 years older than my younger}, I
had spent a lot of time at the office (as an infant) and near the
fumes and injection molding machines. This was in part due to my
Mother getting involved with the company, as my Dad was focusing more
on sales and going to companies to design parts (so the plastics
plant could make the molding (she would be handling the plant,
accounting and secretarial work). My older brother had spent some
time in the plant (though they had just got the plant (I think when
he was around 3), and for my younger brother my parents got a
babysitter (when they could afford one). We lived in Menlo Park,
California at the time (20 minutes from San Francisco). She indicated
that I had numerous amounts of severe Asthma, and in addition had
several emergency room visits to get oxygen back. Doctors thought I
was having growth problems when I was younger 2/3 years, and they
gave me the steroid, cordisone. After gaining weight, they found out
I was allergic to milk, yet I still wasn't developing- my mother
indicated like my older brother.
In relation to that stage, I recently came across an article on
how the levels of BPA in polycarbonate plastic (a plastic which my
Dad's plant had often used, and a plastic that has been on the market
since the mid 1940s) relate to chromosome disorders, birth defects,
miscarriages, and sexual disorders.

http://media.barometer.orst.edu/media/storage/paper854/news/2004/02/17
/News/Nalgene.Plastic.May.Be.Harmful-2298859.shtml

I'm interested in what you think about it,
Adam