Bene’s Battle Is Not Yet Over

by Earthwalker | Feb 6, 2010 | Chemical Sensitivity News, Electrical Sensitivity News, NEWS | 3 comments

help a senior with environmental illness get her car repaired before spraying season

Bene's Battle

I can’t do this anymore; I’m losing strength and purpose. I’ve tried so hard to survive…Emotions right now are all over the place. One minute, I’m connecting with wholeness and the next I’m crying, scared to let it in because if a wonderful turn around doesn’t happen, I’ll be “here” again and I can’t bear this anymore! – Bene Barrymore

We wrote about Bene Barrymore’s struggle with environmental illness back in October of last year. The 77-year-old artist and poet is worried about enduring yet another pesticide spraying season, just three weeks away. As is common for those more vulnerable to pesticides who find themselves trying to negotiate with pest control companies, one of the spraying companies near Bene refuses to give her fair warning prior to spraying her neighbors’ lawns. This makes it very difficult to prepare before a spray to adequately protect herself.

To make matters worse, fiber optics are being installed across from her home, which will cause EMF problems for her. Rather than sitting at home enjoying a comfortable retirement as she approaches 80 years old, Bene feels she now has to move to save her health, and has found a place that may work several states away but her car transmission is going out and unless she is able to fix it, she cannot get there. Bene is on a severely limited income, so she will need financial help to repair her car in order to get to the new house, and she may also need help renting a U-Haul and buying food, gas, and some essentials for the trip.

Friends held a fundraiser for her in November 2009 but the funds that were collected will not cover repairing the transmission in her car. Bene is more than willing to make this cross-state trek alone (which at her age is quite impressive); she just needs financial help getting there. If you are able to help Bene out financially during this very stressful time, please donate what you can by sending a check or money order to:

Bene’s Battle
P.O. Box 1415
Bremerton, WA 98337

or make a PayPal donation right now by clicking on the “ChipIn!” button below:

Visit her website to find out more about Bene’s Battle.

Author

Earthwalker

Earthwalker is the username that PT founder Julie Genser created for her online interactions so many years ago when first creating Planet Thrive.

Julie's (Earthwalker's) life was derailed over twenty years ago when she had a very large organic mercury exposure after she naively used a mouth thermometer to measure the temperature of just-boiled milk while making her very first pizza at home. The mercury instantly expanded into a gas form and exploded out the back of the thermometer right into her face. Unaware that mercury was the third most neurotoxic element on Earth, Julie had no idea she had just received a very high dose of a poisonous substance.

A series of subsequent toxic exposures over the next few years -- to smoke from two fires (including 9/11), toxic mold, lyme disease, and chemical injuries -- caused catastrophic damage to her health. While figuring out how to survive day-to-day, and often minute-to-minute, she created Planet Thrive to help others avoid some of the misdiagnoses and struggles she had experienced.

She has clawed her way over many health mountains to get to where she is today. She is excited to bring the latest iteration of Planet Thrive to the chronic illness community.

In 2019, Julie published her very first cookbook e-book called Low Lectin Lunches (+ Dinners, Too!) after discovering how a low lectin, gluten free diet was helping manage her chronic fascia/muscle pain.
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3 Comments

Valerie on February 7, 2010 at 10:20 am

Bene should be happy they are installing fiber optics which have the lowest electric field exposure.
earthwalker on February 7, 2010 at 10:28 am

Happy? Hmm, you obviously do not have electrical sensitivity or know much about it. If you are electrically sensitive, it means you react to very low levels. I don’t know Bene’s symptoms or severity, but as an electrically sensitive person myself, I would never feel “happy” they would install anything electrical or wireless near me. EMFs cause such distressing symptoms that anything new is a potential threat.
Willow Carver on February 10, 2010 at 8:38 am

This “Chip in” feature is great! Surely she will have no trouble getting enough $ to fix her car, it would take such small donations on the part of the mcs community to help with this! I love this idea, to set up things like this so that as a group we can help someone in crisis … (Perhaps it is done all the time and I am only just aware of it …)