Linda is a gal with environmental illness from a mercury poisoning incident. She has a heart for Christ and was going to the mission field until God had other plans for her life. Now she is building her life back to be able to serve others. Her dream is to help others with environmental illness find safe havens.
This website/blog is all about her EI struggle in hopes that others will be able to benefit from the lessons learned. At this point she is trying to raise money to live and work in a safe environment herself. Her hope is that this website/blog will be a place where people can donate money and also tell share their story on how they live with environmental illness or how God touched their heart through this work.
Living with environmental illness is challenging – not being able to be exposed too long to anything. She lived in the wilderness for a while like most who have environmental illness. She now lives in a small apartment that is fairly environmentally safe for her.
She lives off of disability because she is unable to work a regular job in her condition. Disability covers only a portion of her bills, the rest is covered by her retirement funds which with the economic changes will run out in 2012. This may not be a concern if the predictions of the end of the world are true, but she wants to buy a safe home where she can both live and work.
No space is utopia, but the goal is to get something that can be modified to be environmentally clean starting with the basic issues of being mold free, no obvious toxins (like anything newly re-modeled), away from high electrical influences like train lines, cellphone towers, radio towers, any power lines/boxes, and a good distance from neighbor’s toxins such as laundry, air conditioner units, lights. The list goes on, but you probably are getting the drift.
Many people die from environmental illness with the diagnosis of ‘not thriving’. Linda decided a long time ago that is not how she wants to die. Those of you who know her, know she will allow herself to be exposed to almost anything, it appears as if she isn’t ill, but in reality it takes 3-5 days to recover from a ‘normal’ day out in public. If you watch pretty closely, you will see she is still very conscious to what exposures she allows. If she over does, like while traveling for training last spring, it can take months to recover. Linda works hard at trying to appear normal while managing her illness and she refuses to give up on life.