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[mikicmikido]

Hi, I just added my case to the board on the homepage, as Mikki The Human.  I just want to let everybody know that blasto is alive and well in the Sault STe. Marie area, I live on St. Joseph Island.  Please read my case, I don't think that I could write it all again.  The government needs to start releasing and tracking the information about the patients who have or had this disease around here.  When I saw my doctor for my last appointment, he told me that there had been 6 new human cases since mine that he was treating in the area.  This is just ridiculous.  I don't care what this will do to tourism, people are losing their lives...I have also heard from many people who have parents or grandparents in the area that died from "farmer's lung".  Many of them feel as though this was just undiagnosed blastomycosis.

[Connie]

Mikki, I couldn't find your story

[mikicmikido]

Sorry, I should have been more clear...it is in the case database. 

[Connie]

Miki,
 I found your story, Am glad all is well with you now. Glad you didn't have to go through it as long as I did. Boy the costs sure have risen since I had blasto. I still have my cottage where I got the blasto.  I go to the cottage all the time. No person or animal has gotten it since I was sick.  There are alot of cottagers out there as well. It has been 10 yrs since I initially contracted the blasto.  How are your lungs now? Mine are crap and I have never smoked a day in my life either. I can't do too much or get too emotional or I have trouble breathing. There have been a few cases of blasto since I was sick but not from where I got it. I agree. There needs to be more information and hospitals need to be more informed. It is happening more and more.