Eternity eau de parfum by Calvin Klein
My line, to a colleague, was: Your Eternity is going to send me to my eternity.
I was not joking. It was taken as a joke by a large number of people. However, my extremely deep
and heavy cough would throw my ribs out of place, the lungs felt as if they were seared; I'd
cough up blood. It was a very painful experience and one I never grew accustomed to, even though
it happened often in my former workplace. And that was just my reaction to this one
perfume. Other fragrances meant other unknown combinations of petrochemical derivatives,
and other reactions. Sometimes I'd fall, often I was made dizzy and disoriented. Enough such
assaults, my threshold lowered; voilý MCS. Multiple Chemical Sensitivity -- the disability that
cannot say its name out loud.
As petrochemical-derived fragrances pollute the air for all regardless of underlying health problems
-- and truly Green products must not contain them, according to the DOI -- they should not
be permitted in public venues. Healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, places of worship,
government agencies, pubic transit, and on and on and on.
June 28, 2006 . . . Not out of the woods, even though my MCS symptoms have improved
tremendously with the help of my chiropractors and acupuncturists and their herbal remedies. I
now have kidney failure. Of course, Kaiser blames the patient -- in my case, they'll point to
"hypertension" although at home my blood pressure has generally been in the 130s and even in the
120s; while exposures to fragrances at Kaiser and it soars. Secondly, I had unexpected weight gain
as my MCS progressed, but remained muscular and able to do all sorts of things, when I
wasn't suffering from muscle and joint pain that accompanies MCS. Despite my overall health
-- apart from MCS -- and the fact that I was muscular, I was still labeled obese. Not zaftig, not
overweight, not heavy, but OBESE.
And once you have the handle of obeseity, the medical/pharmaceutical industry are in the
moneymode and are off the hook for any harm that comes your way from prescriptions. YOU
cause your own health problems. NOT the chemical assaults.
But, what if some bodies go to skeletal proportions due to chemical assaults, while others go to
producing fat cells that help absorb and store the toxins? What IF, once improving from daily
assaults of toxins, one loses weight? What IF blood pressure runing at or below 140/90 is a
hypertension diagnosis of convenience so drugs can be pushed and plenty of people live to
comfortable old age without developing kidney failure?
What IF MCS symptoms are really the early signs of assaults upon the kidneys, but as we generally
have more kidney power than we need, the kidneys reflect the assaults by the proliferation of
petrochemical-derived products, but that doesn't show up in blood tests until much later on, after
years of assaults? The reason my brain started wondering about that one is, the symptoms I've
been told to monitor for kidney failure are identical to the very symptoms I've been living with as
a result of various assaults by petrochemically derived products, including fragrances.
Just a little something extra to ponder. I truly hope none of you go into kidney failure, but if you
look at the stats, it's another one of those many diseases about which the experts know far too
little and certainly have no explaination for the soaring rates. Just like with asthma. Cancer.
Parkinson's. Alzheimers. ADD/ADHD. CFIDS, MCS. Read ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS.
Look at how few cases of any of the diseases are genetically caused. The rest? ENVIORNMENTAL
ILLNESS. Check it out. -- barb
