Some years ago Monique Genton from British Columbia met Wendy Smith from Nova Scotia on Phillipa Martin's SNAAFTA mail list. Phillipa is the daughter of Marjorie Gordon, a New Zealand x-ray technician who developed darkroom disease in the 1980's. Marjorie spent the rest of her life researching and publishing articles on DD with the purpose of educating the world-wide radiology community about the dangers of x-ray film-processing fumes. Phillipa continues her mother's fight for better safety practises. In Canada, Kim Crosby from Ontario has been speaking out about DD for many years.
Knowing that techs who develop DD are often ostracized by their peers, by employers, by the medical profession, and by WCB, Wendy and Monique decided to reach out to other Canadian techs with DD, and for the past 5 years have maintained an informal e-mail practise of providing support and information. It has been most gratifying to place techs in touch with each other as our experiences are remarkably similar. We hope this blog will continue to foster an understanding that we are not alone and that there is a great deal of information to support our struggles. Whether you are new or experienced with DD, we hope you will contribute your stories and ideas.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
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