Once again blessings from afar....

A couple of days ago I received a letter in the mail and there was no return address on it, but a heck of a lot of stamps. I was thinking that it had to have traveled a long way. Not in a million years did I think I would get correspondence from a different country, but once again God makes the impossible happen. This letter actually crossed oceans and came all the way from Australia! Wowzers...eh? Thank you Peter for your support by reading my blog. Peter is a systems analyst (aka...really smart!) and he is trained to recognize patterns. He went on to write about his neighbor who passed away from CJD. He was a vietnam vet and his widow claimed that during the early stages of the disease when he was more aware he blamed a shipment of chicken supplied by US forces in vietnam. He felt unwell after eating this meal and apart from that, he also suffered at that time from what was assumed to be "malaria". Just a freak incident...right?

However, Peter is also part of an online forum and one correspondent commented that her father was suspected to have CJD and he also was a vietnam vet.
My father was a vietnam vet. However, I'm not too sure that he ever stepped foot on to Vietnam territory because he was in the navy and spent most of his time on a ship in the middle of the ocean working on jet engines. However, the part that Peter mentioned about his neighbor suffering from what they thought to be "malaria" gave me an eary feeling. I wrote a paper on my dad in high school and I clearly remember him telling me how he became horribly sick in vietnam with what was assumed to be "mononuculosis". He said it was such a horrific experience because not only was he sick, but he also had to be in lock down for 2 weeks so not to infect other men. I right away called my grandma to confirm this information and she said it was certainly true. She actually believed it to be more serious than they would tell her.

I agree with Peter when he states in the letter, "Sure, these three incidents don't form any proof whatever,.....but no disproof either." There is not much information out there about CJD so if there is something that we can grab onto, it is worth it in my eyes to investigate more. If any of my readers have had a loved one pass away from CJD or is currently suffering from the disease and there is a connection with the Vietnam war, please let me know. Also if any of you have comments or whatever, please don't hesitate to respond.

Much love and blessings to all,
Lacy