Re: Sick Region/Thermal Syndrome

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I guess that I was lucky that nobody knew anything about mold when I

started developing my avoidance strategy.

By starting with a clean slate, I was forced to rely completely on my

perceptions to shape my views and had no preconceptions such as mold

being peculiar to old buildings or that testing of any kind could

possibly apply to my situation.

If the exposure transcends these situations forcefully enough to

impact your sense of well being, then no amount of attention to these

particular situations will be sufficient to completely resolve your

complaints and thinking that it will may just be misleading.

Now that people have heard these concepts, it will be doubly difficult

to for these to be " unlearned " .

Some may recall my post of several years ago: Sick Thermal Syndrome.

It described an experience I had Hang Gliding over Mt Hull in northern

California and I flew over an area deforested by a fire because the

lack of foliage usually means good strong thermals.

As soon as I got there and felt the warm air rising, I caught a huge

thermal that was rising at several thousand ft. per minute and started

climbing at an incredible rate. But I also suddenly felt nauseated

and couldn't breathe. Within minutes I had a horrible headache and

cold hardly see straight. This didn't make sense because I've spent

many happy hours thrashing around in thermals and they don't make me

sick, but this one just about knocked me out of the sky.

The landing area was seven miles away and I flew the entire way with

my head laying on the control bar, even a bit worried that I might

fall asleep, lose control, and impact the ground.

I had enough strength left to fly an approach and had a good landing,b

but once on the ground, I just leaned against a log and didn't move

fore several hours. I'd never felt anything like this while flying

before but I had while driving - and it seemed to happen in the same

place - repeatedly.

Of course I know what it is now: spore plumes.

And when I feel one roll through town and it makes me feel

sufficiently uncomfortable, I just get in my camper and roll on out to

some incredibly awesome campsite and enjoy a perfect nights sleep.

But the fact that some huge spore plume can encompass an entire area

that way lets me know that others aren't sleeping so well.

I started asking people to report to me when they had an especially

awful night and the timing/concurrency is so strong that the people in

my little group have all been convinced that the simultaneity of their

achiness,depression and sleep disturbance is not happenstance.

It would have to be far too much of a coincidence for these problems

to keep happening over and over to all of them at the same time.

That's how I gather the clues for Sick Region Syndrome.

These people are moving or have already moved from these areas.

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