tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226917169953922077.post3689471189864537531..comments2017-10-13T17:31:06.471-07:00Comments on Saving Planet Earth: The Human Touch: The New HomelessMIAMI'S TEAM BADA***http://www.blogger.com/profile/15939534704657016894noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226917169953922077.post-57515243866455985092007-07-28T09:25:00.000-07:002007-07-28T09:25:00.000-07:00Severe Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) has inc...Severe Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) has increasingly eroded my life for around a decade and a half now. I can therefore resonate deeply with all the difficult chemical injury problems Caryl and Jill are wrestling with, and I take my cap off to Caryl for standing up and speaking out publicly on behalf of sufferers of the modern plague illness of Chemical Injury (by whatever name – and there are many now). <BR/><BR/>I would just like to widen the scope of this excellent article a bit by addressing some of the additional and very substantial issues faced by MCS/CI suffers who are either trapped in poverty on welfare benefits, and/or who have an additional serious illness(es) to further complicate their already difficult chemically-injured lives.<BR/><BR/>For example: In my own case I have existed on state welfare benefits for almost 2 decades due to chronic health problems caused by severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) – better known outside the UK as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) – and severe MCS. With Type II Diabetes and Osteoarthritis recently thrown into the mix. I have never owned my own home and have, for a long time now, been at the mercy of welfare benefit rates, which, of course, greatly restrict ones renting options – especially if you live alone. Consequently, “safe housing” is therefore practically impossible to achieve. As is the option of escaping to the mountains in a tent because most of the time, for a severe ME/CFS sufferer, just making it to the toilet and back is a trial and tribulation in itself.<BR/><BR/>So, what I would like to ask you here is this: When you are imagining and considering your way through Caryl’s excellent opening paragraph that you also imagine and consider the following. Imagine you suffer from MCS/CI so severely that your own home is poisoning you – but because of poverty you are trapped in it unable to leave. Imagine the you suffer from MCS/CI so severely that even your clothing, your bed, and even your bedding makes you increasingly and intolerably ill – while your severe ME/CFS afflicted body constantly screams at you to lie down on that toxic bed or sofa until, very soon, you become so weak that you have no option but to do just that. Imagine day after day of this. Then week after week, month after month, turning into year after year. Then finally try to imagine a future that contains nothing but more of the same right up until the last of your health finally expires. If you can manage to imagine your way into all those things – and engaged your heart as well as your head in the process - then congratulations, you have just managed to gain an very rare insight into the lives of a growing army of the chemically injured poor – world wide.<BR/><BR/>Just trying to survive my own MCS I had absolutely no option but to spend almost 6 years sleeping - and often largely living – in a small garden shed, all the year round, and in all weathers. If you would like some idea of just what that is like I invite you to view 2 short video files that I managed to “self-shoot” some time ago called “Wooden Pillow” and “Toxic Bedding” – both are available from the Google Video and YouTube services (just type the video titles into their search boxes). Additionally, a more illustrated in depth look at life with severe MCS is available from the “Unbelievable Crisis” sections of my personal web site at www.satori-5.co.uk.<BR/><BR/>For another current and “unbelievable” MCS story on Nutritional Biochemist and severe MCS sufferer Gillian McCarthy, who is basically being killed by medical, social and political neglect, please visit:<BR/><BR/>http://www.mcs-international.org/news.html<BR/><BR/>In closing I would just like to say that if; you are affected by MCS, Chemical Injury, Environmental Illness or similar - or are just plain concerned about the rampant proliferation of synthetic toxic chemicals into every nook and cranny of our lives and environment and would like to get active in doing something about it, then you may like to consider joining us at MCS International. We would love to hear from you.<BR/><BR/>Towards a toxin free future…<BR/><BR/>Gordon D McHendry<BR/>Founder & Campaign Coordinator<BR/>www.mcs-international.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com