Here is a list of some of the good things that have come from this awful sickness!!
1. When i started buying organic food I had to cook it, so many cooking methods are toxic (Teflon ,aluminum, plastic packaging etc) I learned to love food and my free range eggs with fresh Rosemary and organic salsa with farm sausage with delicious fresh bread and Icelandic butter (they make butter the old fashioned way in Europe), organic strawberry jam and organic coffee TASTES 1000 times better than anything you can get at the best restaurant, I became a foodie, because processed, poisoned, microwaved and genetically modified foods don’t taste that good. I love food now!!
2. Lots of the supplements and superfoods I take for MCS have good side benefits, Lipoic Acid is good for muscle tone and Diatomaceous Earth is good for the hair. For fun, I look up nutrition and I realize the foods, herbs and supplements I eat have all kinds of side benefits.
3. I went to therapy when a friend told me that he healed his allergies and other sickness by improving emotionally. Its been a side blessing.
4. I had to spend a lot of time in the sauna and steam room, that turned out relaxing and luxurious.
5. When I got kicked out of my gym. So, I needed a great dance teacher and took up belly dancing instead which is a total passion for me this past 2 years. I also became a Zumba teacher. I also do classes form the comfort of my Non-toxic oxygen filled living room!
6. Its empowering learning how to stand out for what you need when no one understands at all! You have to learn both diplomatic skills for asking nicely for what you need and the courage to be a bitch when people won’t listen and are about to poison you!
7, After being dropped my my primary care doctor and told by the next two doctors that they had “never heard of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity” and that they cant help me. I called this one doctor back saying that it was an unacceptable answer. I sat docilly in that toxic office for an hour explaining everything, getting a terrible headache and fatigue from the office.. I called her back, fed up with doctors and ended with a swear, something about a-hole doctors. Like my other doctor, I sent her articles from Harvard medical center about environmental illness, and her response was to drop me. Can’t any of these people had the time to Google MCS??? There are millions of MCS sufferers. I was dying. I was fed up with this system. But, it worked out well, she called back and got in into a free acupuncture service which has been great.
8, I had to get the mercury fillings out and my teeth look nice and white, no metal !
9. I try never to buy food or anything in plastic (it seeps into the food and air), so I am helping the environment. Its not until you try to avoid it, that you realize its a plastic orgy out there. You can’t get away from it, but you can cut down a lot. I realize that anything that is toxic to me is toxic to the Earth.
10 So many health practices and detox methods help you lose weight and are rejuvenating and beautifying! Now my hair grows fast and is shiny! Lipoic acid is great for muscle tone! Sauna gets rid of cellulite!