As we rapidly move into the year, I am attempting to find the self discipline to push through the fog in my brain. I had a few weeks of what felt like good recovery and then I just crashed about the time my brother left back in December. As I study this mold toxicity problem, I realize that the extended wet rainy days since then may have brought on a new outbreak of mold in areas unseen.
To be honest with you the mold issue seems much more difficult than the Lyme. The symptoms are similar and the two often overlap because once the body is compromised the myriad of junk that our body fights daily begins to take a hold into illness. So if there was mold it would have made the Lyme issue worse, or vice versa, which would explain why there is so much overlap with Lyme and mold.
Some times I wonder if people realize how many viruses and various toxicities they carry along with them in daily life. I suppose most don't think about or care until they get sick. I know that often when I talk with others, I can see it behind the glazed look I get that they do not believe me...and some just frankly like to tell me I am getting older and I am suppose to be loosing my memory. Dementia is a new normal for our generation and it is expected that we will all fade away locked into our minds.
I started down this learning curve about internal bugs years ago, when I began to research TB and learned that many people carry the latent virus and have no problem with it, because their body's immune system keeps it at bay. If everyone had their blood work done and looked at the contents of the soup, I think it would surprise most to learn how many active bugs they have and how much toxic mess they were dealing with. We are a sick generation that all crave a pill to make us better. And we are a generation that believes if there is no pill then the illness can't be real. There are just too many out there that feel like they are dying a slow death with others around them think they are making it up...after all, they don't really look sick. So while I might smile and and keep living my life, there are times when it is an effort to put two thoughts together in order to clean up a small area.
Yesterday was a such a day. Two of us had a horrible day and could hardly function mentally. I got to feeling better in the afternoon and then got a whiff of a chemical product that Hubby had used and it affected me so much so that my blood pressure dropped and I had a moment where I felt like I was going to pass out. At that point, I decided that I had better just stop trying to accomplish anything so I went back to my computer and started researching again.
In my research, I found something that I had recently become aware of in my own life; and that is that I have become more sensitive to chemicals. I always have had a problem with "smelly things". Mid-kid as well, suffers terribly from perfumes. I usually hold my breath when I walk down the detergent aisle and for the most part use fragrance free soaps and very mild dish detergents. I hate chemical air fresheners!! Bug sprays will cause my lungs to go into raspy fits and I avoid them like the plague. My mother has always disbelieved me and has for years. I have always been super sensitive to musty odors and dust. Then I learned that mold grows on dust. Ummm....
So as I continue to research, I watched this one doctor lecture a group of med students last night and she said, it is good to take the patient as far back as possible to when the symptoms began, because that is the starting point of the problem and it will also determine the toxicity level you maybe dealing with. (the longer the problem, the more complicated the recovery) .
So as I begin this new learning curve about what might be part of of our health challenges, I go back to my childhood and living in a house in Florida without air conditioning. The summer rains brought much moisture into the home and into the nocks and crannies of the closets where things would get musty.
Our home in Louisiana had black mold in it some place, we never found the source but you could smell it when the A/C was off. It was here that we first noticed that Mid-kid had a problem eating wheat. Is there a connection? Perhaps because mold exposure not only mimics sinus allergies and asthma but can also make other types of allergies worse.
And then we moved to AZ where they have some powerful molds that grow in that dirt you just don't know about them until the monsoon season. When we moved back east, the dust that covered every living inch of what we owned, grew a fine layer of gray mold on it.
Then we shifted to the farm life and there is no possible way to stop mold from growing in barns, basements, and the ground around you. The reality of this leaves one feeling overwhelmed but I refuse to give up.