Welcome to "Coping With Toxic Chemical Exposure Sensitivity" we can call it "Toxic Sensitivity" for short. That's how I put it in the web links to make things easier for everyone.

I've personally been suffering from the long term effects of toxic chemical exposure since early childhood. I trace my initial exposure event to sometime in 1969. By the late 1970's I was diagnosed as "allergic to everything." What that really meant is that the experts had no idea what was wrong with me. They sent me off to cope with it on my own as best I could. Today, I'm trying to help others similarly situated with the information I could have used years ago.

Trial and error for decades

Through trial and error, I gradually improved my symptoms. I avoided things which bothered me. By the turn of the millennium, I was the sole employee of a personal injury law firm. I had a suite of offices all to myself with an industrial strength air cleaner running day and night.

I had total control of my environment from 1995 to 2005. During that time, virtually all of my symptoms disappeared. It was so gradual I hardly noticed it. Then, everything changed.

Along with the retirement of the sole practitioner attorney who mentored me into the legal profession came a total upheaval in my work environment. Work for me was a round the clock experience at the time, with an occasional call to the Vatican, so that was significant. The attorney I switched over to had a thing about expensive cologne. Between that, and some dental work, my health went rapidly downhill, like a skier off a cliff. I went from total remission to near death over the span of five years.

In 2009, I first learned that other people are affected by common household chemicals in the same way. The revelation was a "miracle." That miracle soon evaporated when I tried to explain my discovery to both my boss and the medical community.

Long before COVID

I was forced by my deteriorated health to abandon the legal profession. Most lawyers don't like to change their lifestyle to suit their paralegal. I relocated far from the city and the stench of laundry soap in the air. My recovery was a slow one but after a time, I improved enough to try working again. Long before COVID taught people about isolation and working from home, I had it mastered. By 2014 I was virtually administering a physical therapy practice from the total isolation of a chemical free "reserve" for "Canaries."

My legal writing talent went to good use, along with my years of interpreting and analyzing medical reports for injury cases. I prepared all the patient notes and chart entries from dictation while handling the appointment calendar. Somewhere along the line, I discovered social media and became a controversially conservative patriot.

Chemical hyper-sensitivity has nothing to do with politics, so I'll keep my views on those subjects off these pages. I've been making my living the past few years with my take on the headlines of the day. All along, I've remained a passionate advocate for those who cannot tolerate common chemicals and medications.

Here, you can expect to find the latest research, along with an explanation of what it actually means in layman's terms. Since new research doesn't come out as often as we'd like, I'll try to provide some helpful tips and insight along the way. I appreciate each and every one of my readers and hope you find my information helpful.

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