just a few days. >> i was coughing stuff out of my lungs every 20 or 30 seconds, just coughing constantly. >> i've had a lot of memory loss, a lot of eyesight loss. i've lost half my eyesight. >> i was down for about three weeks where i couldn't do hardly anything. >> some people who say the oil has ruined their health. bp is disputing those allegations. the federal government is studying the claims. on the mental health front, local professionals have been seeing a jump in stress related depression, drinking and strain on marriages. as for tony hayward, he no longer runs bp, but he hooked up with a swiss commodity trading firm, setting up a oil and gas trading fund of his own. so looks like he got his life back. that will never be true for the 11 transocean workers who died drilling his well. today, bp sued the maker of the