Hello! I've not been around this blog much due to having an awful winter where I lost tolerance to a lot of my safe foods (and as I've just discovered via testing with my Allergist and Immunologist, this was due to the mould, Pullaria). I've spent most of my time holding onto the furniture while feeling as if I am spinning uncontrollably out of control. Not fun. Woodsmoke … [Read more...] about How to Get Your 3M Mask to Seal Tight
Exercise Anyway You Can
For people who suffer with chronic illness or are housebound due to practising avoidance of chemicals as part of their treatment, it's important to get some form or regular exercise. The following clip reminds me that it doesn't matter how you get it or what you do to get it just so long as you get some. (For some of us, exercise is like medicine that just makes the day … [Read more...] about Exercise Anyway You Can
The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect: Finding Sanctuary in Butterfly Town, USA, By Jennifer Lunden was a piece of creative nonfiction that I chose to present to my Creative Nonfiction class early in 2014, during the last year of my Diploma at Victoria University (VU). My Creative Nonfiction teacher, the wonderful Michelle Fincke, read the following analysis of 'The Butterfly Effect' out … [Read more...] about The Butterfly Effect
Cassandras Rather than Canaries
As a metaphor explaining the far-reaching consequences for those of us with environmental health conditions, the Canary in the Coal Mine works: Miners used to take caged canaries along with them down into the coal mines because, when exposed to toxic and noxious gases from the coal, canaries are guaranteed to suffer ill health effects, dying far sooner than their human carers … [Read more...] about Cassandras Rather than Canaries
The History of Chemical Sensitivity
Another wonderful lecture by Dr William Rea from the Environmental Health Centre in Dallas, bought to you from Breakspear Medical. This time, it's on the history of chemical sensitivity. A condition that's had many names and many faces; no doubt there will be a few more before our cage is unlocked. Enjoy! … [Read more...] about The History of Chemical Sensitivity