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Mold in our church basement started it. Then the sensitivity spread to chemicals. Then to electronics. It took ten years to become this severe but the trajectory was always down. Every year I could tolerate less. Every year my world got smaller. Now I live in a modified shed on my sister’s property with no electricity, no running water, and no visitors. I’m 39 and I live like it’s 1850. Emergency services have told me they cannot guarantee a safe response if I call 911. I am medically untouchable.
My sister’s husband built me a 10×12 shed with untreated wood and a metal roof. No insulation — I react to all of it. No electricity — I react to the wiring. No plumbing — too many chemical treatments in the water supply. I have a camp stove, a rain barrel, and a composting toilet. In Alabama summers it’s over 100 degrees. In winter I wear every piece of clothing I own. This is not a choice. This is the only shelter that doesn’t make me sicker.
I cannot enter a hospital. The cleaning products, the fragrances on staff, the fluorescent lights, the WiFi — my last hospital visit caused a seizure from the environment alone, not from whatever I went in for. My sister drives 90 minutes to pick up prescriptions I can’t tolerate and returns them. I have no functioning medical care. I pray instead.
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