Dear Gil, Thank you for your input, welcome, and projected future reading of my essay.
I also appreciated your insights and suggestion re: MCS-CI, to the effect of trying to support the immune system by way of growing vital whole food. Although my MCS-CI doc has explained the condition as primarily one of a Central Nervous System disorder, which is induced by a dysregulated/damaged (liver) detoxification system, no doubt some immune dysregulation is part of the picture in what is, after all, an "integrated" neuroendocrinoimmune "circuit". (In fact in my last visit to the doc, he explained the swollen lymph/other glands in my neck that make me look far heavier than I actually am, as "your body's attempts to handle the chemicals" -- is it safe to say that when lymph glands/nodes are swollen, there's an immune element? Indeed it has been my plan that the first thing I'll do when I have some "unpolluted" land on which to grow food (that is, land that is not gassed, as I am, by the fabric softeners and gas exhaust that inundates me every few minutes or hour after it passes over the yard, on its way into my windows, of the house where I rent ), is to lay in a garden. In the current environment, I am too wiped out by these constant exposures (which would intensify if I were outside as I could not close the window against them) to even hardly cook food grown by others. As one who will be just starting out (I did use to weed or rake an hour a day during childhood, but that's a far cry from managing even a small garden), I am not even sure how late into the summer/fall, and what, I can plant, but whatever it will be at the time of a house purchase (if I am lucky to find an uncontaminated-by-pesticides one that I can financially swing), it will go into the ground as soon as the ground can be lightly prepared for it and hopefuly within days of whatever recovery I require due to chem exposures during the move. Thank you for your suggestion and caring spirit. -Lily You wrote << From: Gil Robertson < Subject: Lily's life/ health - was: The Wizards weekend Hi! Lily, Thank you for joining in. I trust you will join in more often. I have yet to read your essay, as I have work to do, but will do later. Re: your health. I believe that Food Intolerance and Environmental Intolerance are to some degree directly the result on a damaged immune system, thus if you can to some degree help the recovery of your immune system, you will also reduce the degree of severity of your other problems. I speak from experience, having spent much of my forties in near seclusion. I will not bore the list with the details, but getting access to vital whole food is a big part of getting your health back. It was that search that lead me to BD/ Organics/ Radionics etc. Are you able to grow a proportion of your own food using BD or at least Organic principles? If not, it is important you make what ever changes are necessary to enable you to take control of your own food supply to at least some level. Gil>>
