Once we determined her illness was caused by a long-term low level exposure we started to look back to see what some of those exposures could’ve been.  After her brother graduated from high school he had a desire to go on wheat harvest. His dad checked out some harvest crews. Since he did not drink, he didn’t want his son traveling with one that did. He couldn’t find a suitable crew so they just loaded up their combine and truck and hit the trail that started a tradition that lasted for 17 years at first, just the boys went on the crew with their dad, but then the two girls started going and they drove the trucks to the elevator. Most elevators back then you dumped the trucks in a narrow hallway, went into a pit and a lot of times they were standing there with a sprayer, spraying insecticide malathion as the wheat was going into the pit to protect it from weevils in the bin. And have a very distinct odor and even today I recognize it easily.  Also, there was a lot of dust when you were unloading the trucks. She can remember having some breathing problems after going to the summer hauling weed to the elevator. This probably could be some of those low level exposures that was starting to eat away at her immune system.

Journaling the journey

The airplane incident was a definite setback for her. It made her really sensitive to the fungicides, as well as it seemed to make her more sensitive to some of the other exposures such as exhaust fumes. sometimes it is hard for those of us who don’t have a lot of sensitivities to even comprehend how long it takes to destroy a person that does into a reaction. I know a man who said he had got so bad that he could barely go out in public because if he run across someone wearing Kelowna perfume, he would cough uncontrollably. Fortunately, he was able to rebuild his immune system mostly with Rishi mushroom tincture. After her exposure, she was picking peppers one day and they mowed the road banks across the road and threw her into reaction. I had to go help her into the house and she had to change her clothes.  One night on the way home from church three deer walked out of the cornfield across the road in front of our car and she lost the use of her arms for a while. We knew then that harvest his fall was probably not gonna be a good time for us but it hasn’t been as bad as I was afraid it might be. The air cleared up faster than it did when they sprayed it in the summer. Because of all this, we decided not to even try to move back into the big house closer to the road until after harvest.

Jim’s gems

Since my last blog, we have witnessed the tragic shooting of Charlie Kirk, and also about the same time another school shooting in the north east. So many of us wonder why do we see such senseless acts. My opinion on the matter is that we are seeing what it’s like to live in a heathen nation now.  Back when they took prayer and Bible reading out of the schools. Many thought that was maybe a good thing because they thought we were just removing and separating religion from education. What they didn’t realize was that and so doing we also removed our national conscience and therefore we are finding a situation that’s spoken of in the Bible that says in those days there was no King so every man done what was right in his own eyes and that’s what we are seeing today. So we see a man that shoots a policeman and his reasoning was because he did not want to go to jail , a man shoot Charlie Kirk simply because he doesn’t like his politics and another person shoots, innocent children, and for that there is no reason except to say that he had no conscience. Most religions of the world have a code of ethics. They expect their followers to live by and many of them are very similar when it comes to what is right and wrong. So maybe instead of trying to keep religion out of public life, we ought to be encouraging more influence of religion in public life.