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Posts Tagged environmental illness

• Terrible head pressure from dry cleaning job
  Dear Dr. Rea, I have a weird, terrible pressure in my head after chronic exposure to tetrachloroethene working at a dry cleaner's. What can I do about it?
• Planet Thrive is Taking a Break
  The founder of Planet Thrive explains why the site will be not adding new content for the next month or so.
• Bene’s Battle Is Not Yet Over
  Bene Barrymore, a senior who should be enjoying a comfortable retirement, is instead appealing to her community to help her repair her car so she can seek safe shelter before pesticide spraying season starts.
• Interview with Laurie Tümer, MCS Landlord
  The owner of Eco-Casitas for Traveling Canaries in Espanola, New Mexico shares tips for running your own MCS guest house.
• Seeking Participants for MCS Work Study
  MCS researcher Pamela Reed Gibson, PhD and her team at James Madison University are seeking participants for a new study of persons with chemical sensitivities in the workplace.
• One Thing I’d Change About My Chemical Sensitivity
  What's one thing you'd change about your chemical sensitivity? We posed this question to our members and the video responses are beginning to come in.
• Chicago Tribune features chemically sensitive artist
  The Chicago Tribune presents an inspiring account of one woman's struggle to overcome severely isolating and disabling chemical sensitivity.
• Interview with performance artist Julie Laffin
  Moving Beyond MCS, a blog about recovering from environmental illness, has published an interview with performance artist Julie Laffin that explores how her work has evolved due to her illness.
• Unravelling the Mystery of Autism
  E Magazine's cover story this month connects environmental toxicity with autism -- shining light on the link between children with autism and adults with environmental illness.
• Chemborg²
  Christine Weeber's first poetry chapbook, Sastrugi, speaks to living at 9,000 feet in the Rocky Mountains, as well as dealing with environmental illness and her mom's journey through cancer.
• A Few Select Safer Condos in Dallas Being Offered for Sale
  As of December 1, 2009, a few select Regina Caeli Environmental Condos in Dallas are being offered for sale at $105,000. Buyers may be eligible for the Homebuyers Tax Credits, available until April 30, 2010.
• Christmas, EI-style
  Just because you are challenged with environmental illness, there's no need to skimp when it comes to seasonal celebration. Find out how others express their holiday cheer.
• We, Tuskegee?
  Severe ME/CFS/MCS patient Peggy Munson was hospitalized, near death, after the Ice Storm of December 11, 2008 and ensuing 3-day power outage. She remembers today, one year later.
• Nesting Instinct: A Survey of Bedding Options for the Chemically Sensitive
  Julie Genser presents an array of sleeping solutions for those unable to tolerate chemicals in conventional mattresses and bedding materials.
• 12 Ways to Stay Warm this Winter with Severe MCS/ES
  For those with severe chemical and electrical sensitivities, staying warm through a cold winter can be quite challenging. Here are 12 tips for conserving body heat and surviving the coming winter season.
• MCS Brain Retraining: Medical Scam or Breakthrough?
  The Canary Report's recently published op-ed "The False Promise of Miracle Cures for MCS" by Lourdes Salvador and Linda Sepp is full of disinformation.
• Naked and Caged: A Nightmare Come True
  Right this moment, former professional concert pianist and music teacher, Maha Laxmi, is sitting naked in her bed somewhere in Canada, under a Faraday cage -- a structure that blocks wireless signals.
• Understanding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
  An interview with Dutch author Els Valkenburg, whose book "Understanding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Causes, Effects, Personal Experiences and Resources" was recently translated into English.
• When Illness Strikes, Men Leave More Often
  WebMD shares the results of a new study that shows women with cancer and multiple sclerosis are more likely than men to become separated or divorced.
• Golditox: A Fractured Fairy Tale for the Challenged
  by Susan M. Silver | The tale of Golditox, a golden gifted girl who finds new meaning in life through her journey with environmental illness.
• Environmental Toxins and Addiction
  by Cynthia Perkins, M.Ed. | A sobriety coach and recovered alcohol and drug addict discusses how environmental toxins affect the neurotransmitters in the reward pathway of the brain.
• Bene’s Battle
  A senior with environmental illness hopes to avoid yearly homelessness during pesticide spraying season. Find out how you can help!
• (dis)abling conditions: curated by Julie Laffin
  Julie Laffin will be "Skyped" in to this year's disability-themed Site Unseen show in Chicago to help spread awareness on environmental illness. The show is presented by The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
• To the Girls Down the Hall: Ave et Avete
  by Susan M. Silver | A grown woman grapples with the rejection from young neighbors after developing environmental illness.
• Rewiring the Chemically Sensitive Brain
  Annie Hopper's Dynamic Neural Retraining System offers new hope to those with severe chemical and electrical sensitivities, fibromyalgia, and related conditions
• Amygdala Retraining™ Program
  Ashok Gupta Explains his Amygdala Retraining™ Program for ME/CFS/FM and Associated Illnesses.
• Amygdala Retraining™ Program Appendix
  Appendix to Ashok Gupta's article "Explaining the Amygdala Retraining Program™ for ME/CFS/FM and Associated Illnesses."
• Chemical Sensitivity Web Resources
  Websites and articles about chemical sensitivity.
• MCS Hospitalization Tips
  Articles and advice for a less toxic hospital stay.
• Chemical Sensitivity Support
  Support for those suffering from chemical sensitivity.
• Chemical Sensitivity Regional Support
  Organizations providing information and support for chemical sensitivity, based on location.
• New healthier housing site: MCSsafehomes.com
  Planet Thrive's new free service for safer housing & trailer listings.
• Marshall Protocol
  Controversial, demanding protocol originally developed to treat the symptoms of the "Th1" inflammatory disease sarcoidosis, and now being used by patients with CFS, FMS, lupus, lyme disease, and other chronic diseases.
• FOCUS ON: Chemical Sensitivity (CS)
  
• MCS Art
  A selection of museum-quality works reflecting the experience of life with environmental illness.
• MCS-TV
  MCS-International.org's extensive on-demand video library and 24-7 live TV broadcasting station for Environmental Illness and related conditions.
• What’s helping you rise?
  I just discovered a wonderful website for a wonderful reading/study group: healthpursuitsgroup.com. They are a unique health book club for people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FMS), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), and related conditions.
• There Comes A Time
  I have never been very good at surrendering. I have been the fighter—the hold on to the side of the cliff, fight for your life, never give up and never go down with the ship kind of soul. It was exhausting work.
• The “Question” of Health Reform
  Patricia Ann Rattray writes about how the government and corporate elite work together to silence those with environmental illness and others who threaten the status quo balance of power and profit.
• Nightline ABC’s Clattering Train – Part III
  Part III of Patricia Ann Rattray's three-part report on Nightline's coverage of Dr. William Rea at the Environmental Health Center Dallas, and Chemical Sensitivity.