{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-3859","number":"3859","name":"C.A. Garrand","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-21T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-14T04:00Z","body":"I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure.\n\nMy family has been living an ultra healthy life for decades. We grow our own food & were enjoying ultimate health.  Highly active, we have a rural property we loved working. The entire family made an activity out of growing & preserving our own healthy foods.\n\nWe have lived near a tiny cell tower since around 1990.   On a hill, it was below us. We had little effect noticed.  The family was full of energy and activity.\n\nAfter upgrades started about 12 years ago or so, we began to notice headaches, stiffness, sleeplessness, and tension that would not go away.  Our animals began to die suddenly with tumors.  One by one we were losing our healthy pets. \n\nAfter struggling to walk, I began to try to increase my exercise time to keep fit.  Not much was available on how to counteract the effects we were feeling, but nothing that always worked for symptoms were touching this.  \n\nWe found a form of remediation and suddenly I was able to walk again without a cane.  I felt strong.  The kids were having less headaches.  My husband was not as stiff.\n\nLiterally a month later the hell began.  I am unsure of the exact year, but flatbeds showed up. They built the tower up to a hellish monstrosity. Now the tower was even with our doorway in our home up the hill about a half mile away.  Due to the incline it was closer to our house.   \n\nWithin several months I completely lost the ability to walk without canes.  Exercise makes it worse.  Blinding headaches, vision impairment, severe excruciating pain, and inability to sleep or even rest without severe agitation began.  It affected me most because I was home the most.  Everyone else was waking up in a fetal position, having debilitating headaches/issues.  \n\nWithin 7 months our neighbor who never had neurological issues was dead of neurological issues.  \n\nEvery so many months as we tried to counteract to stay comfortable, upgrades continued.  A woman next to the tower has to get spinal injections the pain is so severe.  Her husband had cancer several times since staying home after lockdowns as have other neighbors.\n\nYou can not imagine the excruciating torture from these towers.  The health we worked so hard to maintain is in jeopardy from this nightmare.  \n\nOne note- lightning struck around the tower and it went off at one point for most of a night and morning.  All of the symptoms completely stopped.  I slept, no pain, the relaxing feeling I had enjoyed in my life was back. It was wonderful to feel normal again.  \n\nAs soon as the tower went back on, the pain shot through me so severely I screamed.  Our remaining few pets have also been tortured by this.  We lost many birds, butterflies, & bees as well.\n\nWe have had to put out all of our savings to try to counteract this as much as possible, but nothing stops the overall effects from progression.  Not only has this affected our family, but I lost two close friends with towers like this one near their homes directly due to towers (I won't go into how I know but it is definite) as their bodies began collapsing and they died when their bodies gave out. That hurt me too.\n\nOnce they added smart meters in our area (which are data chains with wireless signals that go through property) a year ago, more pets & people we know within miles of our home are having complete neurological collapses.  I am talking about blacking out & waking up unable to use arms or legs.  Interestingly, it often happens to multiple people at the exact same moments.  \n\nAll of our respite areas within 100 mi are now as bad or worse than our home area due to excessive towers & wind farms (which are worse due to signals used penetrating rock & water as per Dr Lee Merritt).  Area Mennonites are now starting to have problems & very few of them have more than occasional cell phone hidden in the barn or on shelf. \n\nWe have worked hard to stay alive.  What is happening to us is horrific.  You have no idea what this torture is like.  We are doing what we can but need this to be reformatted into SAFE ways of setting up the networks above not directly affecting us.\n\nExercise makes it worse- imagine exercising during being tasered and that gives you an idea of what it is like.   Someone - a close relative- with no health problems was thrown from her chair & temporary quadriplegic for a short period of time.  I am hearing this from more and more people.  If we did not have remediation in place, we would probably be dead.  \n\nI have lost over 5 years of my life able to do very little.  My husband is overwhelmed, and now is struggling to function.  He has his own business and can not afford to not work.  Day after day we pray for help because we want to live & walk & move again!!!  I cry constantly because I envy people who can walk & I can't because of selfish tech.  Thank you for listening.","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-3859","tags":["cancer-tumors","child-development","health-experiences","sleep-cognition","exposure-places"],"source_hash":"07eb81a9f9e1ee93aa8e95e822ea469dee575eca82a9660f1ff75ce6505eaea5","slug":"cancer-tumors-comment-3859","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-3859","body_sha256":"95e463bd122000f90f77d9e95ec61c3651740a0dfedc0a89cc676aa72ab83b8f","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"infrastructure","topics":[{"id":"infrastructure","evidence":" we tried to counteract to stay comfortable, upgrades continued.  A woman next to the tower has to get spinal injections the pai"},{"id":"smart-meters","evidence":"odies gave out. That hurt me too.\n\nOnce they added smart meters in our area (which are data chains with wireless signals that go"},{"id":"neurological","evidence":"lk without canes.  Exercise makes it worse.  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