Veteran fight for answers on debilitating disease

[Monkeyman]

http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=244438

The words come out in sputters, the halting,deliberate speech of a women suffering from brain damage.
"I...wasn't...like...this...before."

It's Sherrie McGahee's dismissal of a report released last month saying there is no mystery illness known as Gulf War Syndrome.

McGahee's illness mimics the symptoms of multiple sclerosis.Her body shakes.She can no longer walk.Fatigue causes her to take frequent naps. She suffers from depression.

Before she went to war in the Persian Gulf, Army Sgt. McGahee ran a marathon to show the troops she led that, even though she was in her 30's she could still compete.

McGahee ,who lives in Fayetteville, said she doesn't know what happen once she got to the war theater.She only knows that her body began to deteriorate during her five-month deployment that began in 1990.

GUYS THIS IS ONE OF MANY STORIES FROM GULF WAR ONE.

But now we are hearing the same things from this war. The cost of these wars is costing us to much in the bodies and minds of our children, family, and friends.

[democrank]

1. Hope Sgt. McGahee gets some answers soon.

I`m remembering the grueling back and forth over Agent Orange.

[Dr.Phool]

2. Google "Depleted Uranium"

Considered the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome.

[OhioChick]

3. No such thing as Gulf War Syndrome, my ass.

That report was made so that vets such as Sherrie McGhee are cut off from medical care.......thus saving money. Burns me up. Nice way to support the troops.
I hope that Sherrie MeGhee gets the medical help that she truly deserves.

K&R
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