Hi
I just wanted to say, I am Chemical sensitive, & it is really wrecking my life, I can't use any chemical in the house at all, every time my wife & two sons come home they have too shower.

Its hell, I can't go out like everyone else, unless I take a mask & be very careful, I am managing a few trips fishing ect.

I have picked up with going for a sauna every week for a year & a half.
 

I just got knocked backwards, as I was put in the Heart ward at our Hospital for three day, no one cared wether I was chemical sensitive or not, the place was a nightmare for me, with them spraying all the beds around me, mopping floors, the worse part was nurses wearing perfume, what about the asthmatics & other people with breathing difficulties in these wards?
 

If they could have put me into a single room, & not mopped the floors, & asked the nurse not to wear perfume, I would not be as sick as I am right now.

I have been home about three weeks, I am as weak as a kitten, my throat is still raw from the chemicals in the hospital.
 

I can't even travel down the coast an hour away, to see my dad that is dying of cancer, & only after a month or so after my mum died, this is so important to me, but I am now too weak after my Hospital stay, I thought hospitals are suppose to make you better?
 

Please understand this is not in our heads, I was poisoned by Chemicals & now am Chemical sensitive.
 

Its like being sunburnt & going back out into the sun for a second & you start to burn again, we are the same with Chemicals, we only need a small amount to effect us.
 

Please have an open mind about this, I am a very bright person with a high IQ, I like to build computers do electronics, I am not an idiot, so please understand a lot of us just started with being sensitive to perfumes & some cleaning products, & them got a big dose of something that sends you right over the edge, I got sprayed by the pest guy across the road spraying the foundation for a new house, it even killed our two grevillea trees out the front within a couple of weeks, I did not smell it to start with as I was outside welding, & put up with it for a while until I realised the smell was not coming from my welding, but it was to late after that, I ended up with Chronic fatigue Syndrome & Chemical sensitivity.
 

Please excuse any bad spelling or gramma, as part of this problem it knocks your brain around & its hard to think.
 

If you have anything I can help you with just ask.
 

Thankyou & have a nice day.
 

Graham Guthrie
37 Ruby St, Bellbird, NSW 2325.
0249917100

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