![]() At the same time, Ed, who donates blood regularly, was advised to stop the practice because his liver enzymes were so out of balance. Then, at 40, Ed received what he refers to as his "wake-up call" when he was scheduled for surgery to have a painful cyst removed from his groin. By his early thirties, embarked on a career in the life insurance industry, he was at least 40 pounds overweight, and still fatigued enough to need an afternoon nap in order to muster the energy for his evening round of client appointments. Today, he believes the early exposure to DDT compromised his immune system, making him vulnerable to chronic bouts of strep throat.Įd, who's now 48 and lives outside Fort Lauderdale, remembers maintaining his sub-par health all through his twenties. Once his tongue even split down the middle. And when Ed did join in on the games that were popular at the time, such as riding his bike behind the trucks that sprayed DDT along the backroads to keep mosquitoes at bay, he became plagued by a host of mysterious maladies. ![]() Then there were the allergies-a host of seasonal-related bouts of sneezing and sinus problems that forced him inside when most of his friends were out celebrating the arrival of spring in Northern Maine. ![]() As a child, he suffered from sleep apnea, snoring so loudly as a 12-year-old that he could wake the entire household-never mind that his own sleep was so erratic that he was perpetually tired. For most of his life, Ed Thrall didn't know what it was like to feel good.
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