Shandy’s auction ~ help her be the best mom she can be!

by Earthwalker | Sep 17, 2011 | Chemical Sensitivity News, Featured, Lyme & Co-Infections News, Mold Illness News, NEWS | 0 comments

Shandy with her children Planet Thrive member Shandy “is a beautiful warrior spirit, a mama, artist, photographer, actor, singer, fiance, and lover of life who has been disabled by complex chronic illness for four years now. After years of attempting every treatment imaginable and having nearly every doctor she’s seen throw up their hands at the difficulty of her case, Shandy has run out of funds and is struggling to provide for herself and her children; as such, nothing is left for treatment with the one practitioner in her area willing to tackle the complexity of her illness. Shandy also needs to relocate, as she’s found herself in a rental home thick with mold. Because Shandy’s illness began when she lived in a moldy basement, any exposure to indoor mold exacerbates her already intolerable symptoms and makes healing that much more difficult. Despite four years of interminable illness and struggle, Shandy remains one of the most loving, hopeful people alive, with a heart of true gold and a relentlessly determined spirit.”

Fellow PT member Heather has organized an impressive online auction to help raise funds for Shandy’s treatment. The auction is now open and will end next Sunday evening, 9/25/11, at 10 p.m. EST (Eastern Standard Time). Some of the exciting items available for bidding include:

View the “Shandy’s Auction – Road to Health” blog to see the rest of the amazing offerings. Keep checking back to the site, as new items are added daily. Don’t forget, the auction ends Sunday evening, 9/25/11, at 10 p.m. EST (Eastern Standard Time). Every dollar counts!

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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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