Sandy Wynn-Stelt knew she’d been drinking startlingly high amounts of a potentially harmful group of chemicals known as PFAS from her contaminated home well for years.
Still, she was surprised last year when her doctor said that exposure made it “prudent” to do some thyroid tests as they investigated the cause of her chronic throat problems. Thyroid disease is among the illnesses associated with some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, commonly referred to as “forever chemicals.”
Four months later her surgeon removed a cancerous thyroid and 20 lymph nodes.
“I’m more blessed than I deserve to be,” she said ...