billcoe_
Oct 13, 2009, 4:23 PM
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mountainmiss wrote: Does anyone have ANY information about the possibility of contracting fungus/mold infections from repeated exposure to rock from setting several hundred routes?? If you don't know of anything but know someone who might, please let me know. thank you!
Route Setter? Did he work in a rock gym then? In not, then was he a prolific chalker? If so, I saw earlier that a young woman gym climber/worker had passed away from some rare form of lung cancer. I personally suspect that chalk dust, in excess, may be harmful to some of us. My family all come from a coal and hard rock mining background (west slope Colorado) and the dangers of breathing even what appears to be benign dust are well documented in that world.
I may have missed it, but had your friend had a full MRI yet to look for cancers and lesions? If not, I'd do that next.
What folks said above on the doctors goes for me as well. Please, PLEASE, check back in when you guys figure it out and share the info to help the next people searching for identical answers. Love the internet for that.
Good luck!!!
(This post was edited by billcoe_ on Oct 13, 2009, 4:29 PM)
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