pepe, yah, I worked with photochemistry for 10-15 years. Had my clothes soaking wet from chemicals when we did B&W fine art mural printing, thus we eventually started developing our prints in the nude! Crazy artists! LOL. Took a shower afterwards, but that's direct skin contact/absorbtion. Had a huge c-41 bleach spill in commercial lab that I stood in for about 8 hours while cleaning it up. We did all color processes. I used to get *vasio-spastic migraines* after loading negatives into the film developing tanks. symptoms: Dizzy, blurred vision leading to complete blindness, {total blackness}, then a screaming migraine... yea, THAT was extreme chemical posioning at work! That happened twice & I told my boss I'm not going in that room to load film ANYMORE! Caused grief but too bad!

Think about that *contact dermetitis* that they talked about.... yea, that's chemical BURN... DUH! Acetic acid is a poison! Skull and cross bones right on the label. yikes! But when you're young you think you're immortal & immune to everything. You never realise that every toxin builds up over time... sometimes rather *inert* things can combine in your body and create something toxic. Chemical warfare at its finest. THANK GOD it's gone digital as all that chemistry went right into the water supply. One photolab machine wastes like 20-50 gallons of water A MINUTE! {Contaminates the water with chemistry}. Think about how many photolabs a town has & each one has about 3 machines running for 10 hours a day.

I've done many different cleansing things & I swear my urine always smells like photochemistry.

It's hard to determine where my lung probs originated. It could be a life times worth of various toxin build up... & smoking...

But, I had surgery for the 1st time in my life & 6 months later I have a lung prob. I'm convinced it was something with the anestesia cuz before the surgery we were moved to another room that rarely gets used, so the equipment may not have been *prepped*... and when I awoke from a simple 10 minute procedure my throat and lungs were on FIRE! That didn't happen from my last surgery when I actually HAD a tube down my throat & was on a ventilator, etc. So, I think it was the anestesia. {mold? chemical?} But how do I prove THAT?

Then I moved to this town were you can see the dust in the air & we get dust storms in the spring... then I went on prednisone, and after comming off it I had a big flare up, which I guess is typical. But my DR never told me that, so I wasn't aware of it until I was bedridden & 70 pounds. THEN I had to go on oxygen.

I thought for awhile it was ascarsa,{parasites} cuz why would scar tissue *spontaneously* grow? Scars result from trauma. So, something wasn't adding up. I'll get to do Clarkia in a couple months, and if no worms come screaming out then I'll know FOR SURE that it's toxin related. Plus when I cough it tastes metalic. But that taste is also the taste of pneumonia phlegm. shrug.

Sorry, this is long, but you can see there is a lifetimes worth of contributors to a state of disease. Luckily, the cure is simple and easy. As my new DR says, *let's just promote your health and the body will heal itself.* I'm all for THAT! and I AM getting better EVERY DAY!!!! yay! :)