A local story of interest to me, and maybe even you.. Three babies have been born in Schuylkill County, PA, and are going to take part in a decades-long government study on children..
The government study, according to the report, intends on asking not why children get sick, but instead why some children are healthier than others..
My wife and I were offered the chance to stick Ayden into the study a few weeks before he was born, but we declined. I am not accusing anyone of anything nefarious.. I just didn’t have the interest and maybe even the paranoia of untrustworthiness for any government study that will watch my child until the drinking age of 21..
As far as health? Schuylkill County!? If you’ve never been here, you’ll most likely not know it’s the home of a vast array of abandoned former coal mines.
Nothing unhealthy in the ground there, right?
And it’s the home of a sulfur creek that many have labeled the ‘shit crick’.. Yes, I said crick. Local word..
And this county of Coal Speaker home base is also the home of a rare cancer that has been seen more and more in the region.
So I hope the 21-year-long study goes well. I’ll be 51 by the time we find out why certain kids are sicker than others.
