Sometimes you feel like, I don't know what it is like to be drunk right?
I never was drunk in my lifetime but you're losing your sense of balance and
you wonder why. This is something that happens often.
I started to have seizures at the age of two. Your feet and your legs become
tingly. I don't get that tingling feeling they just feel like numb.
Tense up, my feet sometimes. I'd be cooking and I would cut myself and I
wouldn't feel it. When I hold something they drop it. Kind of feel nothing
sometimes. Well when my daughter was born too when I'd be holding her it broke my
heart sometimes I couldn't feel her. That's one
thing that, that's one of the symptoms that really affects me.
The river that comes from Dryden that Wobegon River flows into another river
where it joins. And that's that river system that's been polluted
over the years now. And downstream is wiped out and they're polluted
too you know, and that same river system that we have.
All that mercury affects the eyes too - it's like the vision. I left my eyesight.
But all of a sudden when I'm fourteen or sixteen then all of a sudden they tell
me I need glasses you know so I've been wearing glasses ever since. I had glasses
when I was eight years old. But we thought it was only fish that was
affected but that wasn't so. The government said warned Grassy that
there was mercury in the fish in the first place. If they did that,
none of us would have not been sick today. What else he gonna
eat? That was our main food. They are destroying our livelihood. It's not fair.
And all the people are dying you know. One of my friends and family died due to
mercury. I was really close with him. That mercury poisoning
what did we ever do to them? I already done that to us.
I have sometimes I have like the shakes.
My ears like they're tingling and sometimes I can hear nothing
that's why I keep saying 'what?' And I wanted for a hearing test I'm losing my
hearing on my left ear. All my life I'm being forced to wear hearing aid and
that's why I wear this every day. I grow up and my own people teased
me about it I got bullied so it hurt.
There were times I wanted to kill myself.
I mean this is if you want to look for evidence and truth? We have it.
It's here it was here in the community and nobody can deny it you know.
That's how bad it is.