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Factory floor manager for 18 years. We switched to a new solvent system in 1997. I was the one overseeing the transition, standing over the vats while they calibrated. Six months later I couldn’t be in the factory without getting dizzy. They moved me to an office. Then the new office carpet got me. Then the cleaning crew. I took early retirement at 47. Twenty-nine years later I still can’t walk into a hardware store.
Wife and I remodeled slowly over years — all low-VOC, all natural materials. It took a decade but the house is safe. She’s a saint.
Occupational medicine doc diagnosed me immediately — said industrial solvent exposure followed by spreading sensitization was ‘classic MCS.’ Workers’ comp fight took four years. Won eventually.
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