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HUNTLY

Aberdeenshire

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22^nd of May 2003

Dr Gordon Carter

Huntly Health Centre

Huntly

Aberdeenshire

Dear Dr Carter

I am happy to be able to report that my appeal to the Social Security Commissioner in Edinburgh to have the ridiculous decision of the Elgin DLA Appeal Tribunal set aside as erroneous in law has been successful. Consequently, a new DLA appeal hearing has been set for 11-06-2003.

As you may remember the offending tribunal decision was based on their ridiculous [and covert] conclusion that I didn’t actually suffer from either M.E. or MCS at all - “but only thought that I did” and that all previous findings to the contrary were in error. An incredible attempt, with absolutely no evidence at all, to re-write history too.

You are of course aware that I have had a confirmed diagnosis of M.E. from at least 3 consultants to date. Consultant Gasro-Enterologist Dr McKinnley, consultant Neurologist Dr Coleman, and consultant Immunologist Dr Richard Herriot – all based at Aberdeen’s ARI. The latter, in his letter to you of 16.9.99 clearly states:

· “I agree with Dr Coleman that he relates a constellation of problems that would be consistent with current case definitions of ME.”

· “I had a long chat with Mr McHendry today. I found him to be a very genuine individual who I think is substantially disabled by his symptoms.”

· “I am aware that chemical sensitivities of the kind described are not infrequently described within the spectrum of problems experienced by ME sufferers.”

· “My suspicion is that chemicals such as those that trouble Mr McHendry act in a direct manner on end organs such as skin and mucous membranes and that sufferers have, for some as yet undefined reason, a non-immunological hypersensitivity to exposure.”

You also have treated me for over 10 years as an M.E. sufferer, visiting me at home every 4/6 weeks for well more than half of that time, and have a good knowledge of just how bad the chemical sensitivity side of things has been for me increasingly over the last 5 years since moving into the brand-new bungalow, custom built for disabled use, that is my present accommodation.

What I need from you Dr Carter [at your earliest convenience please], for the new members of the forthcoming new DLA tribunal hearing, is a crystal clear written refutation of their predecessor’s quite preposterous contention that I do not suffer from either M.E or MCS – and actually never have. Please send your written response to me here as soon as possible please - so that I can forward a copy to the appeal clerk in Glasgow in good time for the hearing in Elgin on 11-06-2003.

I would also appreciate it if you could send me copies of your letters to both the toxicologist and immunologist Mr Herriot as well as copies of any responses received. It must be almost a year now since an appointment was requested with Mr Herriot. You may remember that he found and investigated [ultrasound scan] abnormalities in my liver, and the pains in my right side that I complained to you frequently about over the last year have only increased in intensity, frequency, and duration since then. Consequently, I am eager, as you know, to have my liver re-checked.

Additionally, I believe at some stage last year you told the DLA benefit people that I could walk 100 yards. Are you aware that 100 yards is the cut-off point for the high rate of the mobility component to which I had previously been entitled? When we have discussed this matter previously I have told you that 60/80 yards is the typical “reasonable” distance beyond which the levels of discomfort and negative impact on health become unacceptable. I do however seem to recall saying to you that 100 yards was occasionally possible with proper preparation and timing but that was the exception not the rule. Perhaps we had a misunderstanding there. In any event, I have to ask you now to reconsider that excessively optimistic 100-yard figure and confirm in writing the typical 60/80-yard limitations imposed on me by the M.E./MCS combination of illnesses. If I loose my car Doc – then my life will no longer be viable.

Finally, if you could include in your return letter to me simple confirmation of both (a), my road traffic accident and consequent general whip-lash and back injury [Elgin – sent you a photocopy of the resulting hospital report] and (b), the motor-bike crash in which I smashed my kneecap to pieces, then that would be just great.

Sorry to hit you with such a big letter Doc but the matter is of monumental importance so I hope you will forgive it.

I enclose here for your information a copy of a computer CD containing 2 short videos depicting the scandalous conditions under which I have to live in my garden shed at night. These have recently been uploaded onto my Internet website and put into the public domain. They can be found in the MCS section entitled “The Present Situation”. Despite the enormous difficulties of the past 2 years I have still managed to move slowly forward with Satori-5 towards a “full” public exposure of the scandal of MCS in both the UK today and the ‘modern’ world at large.

Yours sincerely

Gordon McHendry

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