Re: Was: my puppy Now: hypersensitivity

[Guest guest]

I do think you are supportive Carl. I for one feel that you are absolutely right

in all aspects on this matter. Gentle challenging is just as important as

supporting. When people experience devastating losses or otherwise traumatizing

events, they can become severely anxious, and that anxiety in turn affects

cognition. Cognitive distortions such as emotional reasoning ( " I feel this way,

so it must be true " ), can increase anxiety, and so on in a vicious circle. 

For example, I am at my mother-in-law's right now, trying to recover away from

the mold. Yesterday, I felt a return of some symptoms (beyond the usual ones

that have/are accompanying my bacterial infections)--eyes tearing, burning,

sinus headache. I started panicking--did I cross-contaminate by bringing my

clothes here? I know this can happen. But was my reaction *likely* to have been

caused by cross-contamination? When I thought some more about it, I realized the

reaction happened shortly after I had pet not one, but two, of my MIL's cats.

I'm unsure if I am allergic to cats (my allergy testing was performed badly; I

had delayed reactions, perhaps because I truly have a delayed hypersensitivity

reaction or perhaps because of the medicine I am taking and the rows were not

even, so it was hard to tell if this one spot was indicative of hypersensitivity

to dogs or hypersensitivity to cats) but, again, this seems so much more likely

than the other option. 

By the way, I had tried to email you, but I received an anti-spam message in

return--that message went into my spam box, and I did not catch it until way

after the fact. So it seems like I did not respond to your message, when in fact

I did. Sorry about that!

From: Carl E. Grimes <grimes@...>

Subject: Re: [] Re: my puppy

Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010, 10:22 PM

I'm going to interject here and will do so without breaking

confidentiality.

[Guest guest]

Tug,

If you live in a condo and you are getting reactions you have to consider other

people stuff, flor cleaners, detergents, pesticide etc, it seeps in threw walls,

A/C , floor.  I know I cannot live ever in abuilding, nor a duplex either cause

it is also bad for me. So I know isolation is best in my circumstance and that

maybe your experience as well. 

God Bless !!

dragonflymcs

Mayleen

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From: Tug <tug_slug@...>

Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 6:30:01 PM

Subject: [] Re: my puppy

 

Im sorry Carl that was my mistake and Carl is right I have become somewhat

chemically sensitive. Being fairly new to all this and knowing how mold effects

me its difficult for me to determine whether it's mold that's causing the

problem or a chemical. Beings theres such a strong musty odor coming from the

crawl space I automatically assume it's mold.

I stand corrected