{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-1436","number":"1436","name":"CATHERINE KORNMAN","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-05T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-01T04:00Z","body":"I briefly lived across the street from a Cell Phone tower.  I lived on Lantern Crest Cove in Lantern Ridge subdivision in Metro Atlanta.  The cell tower was just across the neighborhood street from my door.  It was a small tower with only one triangular antennae array at the top.  It was LOW... much shorter in height than any other tower I have seen.  This tower (per GoogleMaps) has now been relocated within the neighborhood to the next street over.  I can't tell if it is now on a taller pole (from GoogleMaps.)\n\nPrior to moving to this townhome in Lantern Ridge, I enjoyed spectacular good health.  I took no Rx meds... and still don't.  I had no chronic conditions... and still don't once I got better after moving away from the cell tower.  I was an Aerobics Instructor from age 35 to age 50.  I have continued fitness classes multiple times weekly to this day.  I am now 66 years old.   A lifetime of healthy habits and good genes has blessed me with uncommonly good health... except for my few months spent across the street from a cell tower,\n\nI developed nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, insomnia and night sweats.  I felt like a rope was knotted around my stomach.  I couldn't eat.  I lost 10 pounds... from 125lbs to 115lbs in about 2 months.  My tongue became swollen with raised red nodules...  looking at it made me think that if the rest of my GI Tract looked like my tongue, then no wonder I had nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.  It started with the nausea and diarrhea, but by the time I left the home I was vomiting every morning as if I had morning sickness from pregnancy.  I was 60 years old and menopausal, so NOT pregnant.  \n\nI have never experienced insomnia, but living across from that tower, I was awake with night sweats every night.  \n\nThe symptoms resolved completely once I moved, although it took a couple months to get back to normal.  I only lived there a few months, and stayed with local family a good bit of that time once I realized the issue HAD to be the proximity to the tower.   Its been 6-7 years, and I am long since back to my normal state of excellent health, but I will NEVER live close to a tower again.  The detrimental health effects are REAL for those sensitive to the radiation.  I guess I'm sensitive.  Yay, me.  My neighbors that I spoke with during my short time on Lantern Crest Cove denied any ill effects.  I think I would have eventually died, unless its possible to build up a tolerance to the radiation. \n\nIt distresses me to no end that SCHOOLS seem to be a favorite place to put cell towers!!  Beeming radiation right by the KIDS all day long!!!  Even if they don't experience what I did, HOW can we just assume it's safe???  For the love of God, stop capitulating to the Powers-that-Be who think cell towers on school grounds are a great idea!  I swear, sometimes I think they really ARE trying to kill us all!!\n\n\nBest regards,\nC Kornman, RN,BSN","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-1436","tags":["child-development","health-experiences","sleep-cognition","exposure-places"],"source_hash":"4fdd24d2c25ef4022b96b964959abcb538f57cd89bc909ed1669b57ea2789f98","slug":"child-development-comment-1436","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-1436","body_sha256":"4b821bbf34a550c650f796ce0656f6083d18ec02a5c5fc1f99b62187e7f7cc59","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"infrastructure","topics":[{"id":"infrastructure","evidence":"I briefly lived across the street from a Cell Phone tower.  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