More blogging canaries

Posted on Jan 26, 2010 by Susie Collins in Blog, MCS, Susie Collins

A couple of blogs came up on my radar this week that I wanted to share with you.

Healthologist & well seasoned Nurse. Out of the box practical thinker with common sense. Fabric Artist – Quilter. Problem Solver.

My first find is Kathy AK’s Blog at Open Salon. Kathy is a new member of The Canary Report community, and among her topics at Open Salon, she blogs about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. In the post Visiting someone with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, she writes:

There are not any products that I am not neurologically reactive to. It is just a matter as to how reactive or sensitive to them I am and how ill a specific product will make me.

So, please leave them all at home.

Those “all natural” fragranced products are not safe around me either. While some products are worse than others, all WILL make me sick to some degree, probably too sick for you to even come into my home or to enjoy your company.

A nurse with over 25 years experience (and a quilter to boot), Kathy’s also encouraged her readers to Make the connection — Chemicals & Fragrances make you sick, and asked them to consider When Scented cleaners do not make good Cents.

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Sundog –noun 1. parhelion. 2. a small or incomplete rainbow.

I also found Sundog Tales by Lisa, who describes herself as “a survivor of the devastation multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).”

Lisa writes a lovely blog, full of detail, emotion and tales of a survivor.

I was feeling energetic and alive. My brain fog was noticeably less and it felt like just out of the corner of my eye I kept catching glances of what it would be like to have no fog at all. That little glimpse you catch of something that is mythical and mysterious but no matter how quick you are to turn and look you always just missed it. But I knew it was there and almost tangible.

Lisa and her partner Jeremy are living in a tent in the foothills of Washington state. They are living in the tent through winter and several of her blog posts describe the harrowing experience of cold and freezing temps (while battling CFS and MCS). They are currently building a straw bale house.

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4 Responses to “More blogging canaries”

  1. Lisa

    28. Jan, 2010

    Hi Susie!

    This was a pretty nice surprise to see you had written about my blog. I had no idea about this! lol

    Thank you very much for the kind words and helping me get our story out into the world more. I really appreciate it. This means a lot to me to know that you enjoyed my blog enough to want to share it with others.

    Have a beautiful day, Lisa

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  2. Susie Collins

    28. Jan, 2010

    Aloha Lisa!

    I’m thrilled to be in touch with you. Your blog is awesome. I cannot fathom what it must be like for you and Jeremy to live under those conditions through the winter. You take “homelessness” to an amazing level. I hope your progress on the straw bale home is progressing well so that you have better shelter next winter.

    Thank you for sharing your health journey so poignantly, with your understated but beautifully powerful prose. I do hope you’ll stay in touch. I welcome you to join our community if that works for you, the link is in the right column under “Join our Social Network.” It’s a wonderfully friendly and supportive community.

    Peace and love to you and Jeremy.

    Aloha,
    Susie xoxo

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  3. Lisa

    28. Jan, 2010

    Hola Susie :)

    Unfortunately we have run out of money for finishing our house after some rotten contractors took advantage of us. Its looking like if nothing surprising happens in a big way to change things, we are going to be here in this tent for at least another six years until we can afford to move indoors. >.<

    Thank you for the welcome to Canary Report. :) I just might take you up on joining sometime soon. Seems I'm in a hibernating mode right now and haven't been very socially minded as of late, but once I am you may very well see me around. :)

    Hugs! Lisa :)

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    • Susie Collins

      28. Jan, 2010

      Hola Lisa, that sounds like an extremely difficult option. I do hope you are pleasantly surprised very soon with another way to make your safe home materialize. Feel free to drop in here anytime to touch base. You are in our thoughts and prayers. Hugs, Susie

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