A young man called Enrico Turco has telephoned me. His story is dramatic. After 4 years of every type of diagnostic test in Italy during which he has been treated like a laboratory guinea pig, in Thailand he was diagnosed with “lead poisoning”, an intoxication from heavy metal almost always due to conditions in the workplace. The Trieste hospital has not taken into consideration the tests done abroad, the tests that for now, have saved his life, and two days ago he was discharged. Now he’s in Milan and he is getting treatment privately, at his own expense. He has already spent 120 thousand euro for tests and treatment. Now he also has to pay for lodging in Milan as well as the doctor and the lifesaving drugs.
Enrico is asking us for help so that he can continue to live. His current account is:
Enrico Turco
UNICREDIT BANCA
IT 75 Z 02008 02201 000019516678

Enrico’s story
”I’m 37 years old and my name is Enrico Turco. I live in Trieste and I had never had any type of illness or pain. I was athletic and I loved cycling and running and these activities had been my hobby for 10 years. On 21 September 2005, I was taken into hospital because of serious pain in the abdomen, - intestine, stomach and trachea - that happened all of a sudden, following a physical exercise of intense strain, compression of the abdomen and difficulty breathing – to dilate the thoracic cavity.
The tests done:
- 4 high-resolution 4-colour CAT scans of the abdomen – negative
- 4 MRI scans of the abdomen, one of the spinal column and one of the head – negative
- 2 Angio CATs
- 1 scintigraphy to the bones
- 3 heart ultrasounds to understand the accelerated beating – negative
- they repeated the colonoscopy 4 times with a biopsy of the ileocecal valve
- an EGD 4 times with a biopsy of the mucous membrane
- they did a ‘barium meal‘ 3 times
- about 20 X rays to the abdomen, that was always full of faeces
- blood tests, white blood cells variable between 10 thousand and 22 thousand
- test for gluten intolerance

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