Allergic to the 21st century? Gillian McCarthy faces eviction in 2008
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Jan 9, 2008, 7:24:47 AM1/9/08
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Allergic to the 21st century?
Allergy victim Gillian McCarthy faces eviction in the new year
The following two articles about Gillian McCarthy being allergic to
the 21st Century have been doing the rounds recently but may I play
the devil's advocate here and suggest that perhaps a far older scourge
is at the root of her health problems.
Note in the articles that it is mentioned that for the past 15 years
she has been living in a "damp- and mould-ridden home".
It has long been known that mold spores (mycotoxins) given off by
household molds are highly toxic and can lead to symptoms virtually
identical to chemical and electro-sensitivity. Effects from exposure
to toxic mold can result in any of the following symptoms: Headaches -
memory loss - problems focusing or concentrating - chronic fatigue -
nose and throat irritation - persistent cold-like symptoms - burning,
itching or watering eyes - dizziness - nausea - tremors - heart
palpitations - shortness of breath (during mild exertion) -
exhaustion- after routine activity - serious swelling in legs, ankles,
feet - serious swelling in torso or stomach - prolonged muscle cramps
and joint pain - sensitivity to- odors - cancer - women who are
pregnant could experience multiple problems, even miscarriages. (Taken
from http://www.sdmold.com/more_on_health_effects.html )
The earliest mention of molds as toxins is in that historical
collection of writings, the Bible. In Leviticus under the heading
"Treatment of Contaminated Houses" 14:33 -57. To quote in part:
"The owner of such a house (contaminated with mildew) must then go to
the priest and say "It appears that my house has some kind of mildew."
Before the priest goes in to inspect the house, he must have the house
emptied so nothing inside will be pronounced ceremonially unclean.
Then the priest will go in and examine the mildew on the walls. If he
finds greenish or reddish streaks and the contamination appears to go
deeper than the wall's surface, the priest will step outside the door
and put the house in quarantine for seven days...."
"On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If
the mildew has spread on the walls, he is to order that the
contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place
outside the town. If the mildew reappears in the house after the
stones have been torn out and the house is scraped and plastered, it
is a destructive mildew and the house is unclean. It must be torn down
- its stones, timbers and all the plaster - and taken out of town."
A house desecrated by mildew, mold, or fungus would be a defiled place
to live in, so drastic measures had to be taken.
If any clothing is contaminated with mildew---any woolen or linen
clothing, any woven or knitted material of linen or wool, any leather
or anything made of leather---if the contamination in the clothing or
leather, or woven or knitted material, or any leather article, is
greenish or reddish, it is a spreading mildew and must be shown to the
priest. The priest is to examine the mildew and isolate the affected
article for seven days?"
So if it were possible to resurrect a 2,000 year biblical priest he
would probably know what Gillian's problem is.
If Gillian got out of the toxic hovel she lives in, she might find
that the 21st century is not as bad as she thought. Bizarre that she
has been living there all these years for the sake of her health!
Unfortunately in a few cases of chronic illness the sufferer
eventually tends to identify his or her sense of self with the disease
and it becomes all encompassing, with a fixated belief as to the
source of the illness. I know of a remarkably similar case here in
Australia of a woman who's naturopath diagnosed her unexplained
chronic illness as being allergic to all sorts of modern synthetic
chemicals. She went through something similar to Gillian until she
went to a doctor who ordered a series of tests. The tests found that
she had diabetes and after getting proper treatment for that condition
all her symptoms went away.
What all this suggests is that such cases an open-minded and critical
investigation should be conducted to rule out other possible
environmental factors before making assumptions that modern technology
must always be the cause.
Don Maisch
************************************
I'm facing a death sentence
Western Daily Press December 17, 2007
Tina Rowet.rowe [at] bepp.co.uk
Allergy victim Gillian McCarthy, who has vowed to kill herself rather
than quit her ramshackle wooden hut, faces eviction in the new year.
Yesterday the woman said to be "allergic to the 21st century"
condemned South Somerset District Council's decision as a "death
sentence."
The council is preparing a specially-equipped caravan for her in an
orchard in the village of Keinton Mandeville, 10 miles from her
current home, at Shepton Montague, near Wincanton.
Pollen alone could kill her
But Miss McCarthy says the caravan and the new site are totally
unsuitable and that pollen from the apple trees alone could kill her.
Speaking from her damp- and mould-ridden home she said: "This is
madness. I think they want to kill me. The new site is an apple
orchard and I am particularly susceptible to apple pollens."
The 53-year-old former nutritional biochemist suffers from multiple
chemical sensitivity syndrome, which means she is allergic to dozens
of substances, including the gases given off by many modern building
materials, and chemicals present in almost every area of modern life.
Her GP, Somerset Primary Care Trust and Somerset Social Services, is
convinced that her present home, which is in danger of collapse, is a
health risk.
The council, which has refused to extend planning permission for the
wooden building, says the caravan is a temporary solution while it
tries to establish a blueprint for a permanent home. It says it has
been unable to do so because Miss McCarthy has refused to accept the
medical expert that the Health Authority wishes to examine her.
Miss McCarthy has applied to have a specially-designed house built on
the Shepton Montague site, but the council says it cannot be sure that
all its features are needed until Miss McCarthy agrees to the
assessment.
Meanwhile Oliver Dowding, the organic farmer who owns the site, is
happy for her to stay, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity International
has launched a campaign to stop her being moved.
In the mid-Nineties Miss McCarthy lived in a tent in a Dorset field to
avoid chemicals but became so ill that health, social services and
housing authorities worked together to find her a better home.
South Somerset issued a planning enforcement notice in June giving
Miss McCarthy until late November to respond. It says she has failed
to do so.
Independent Extra January 4, 2008
Cold Blood ITV1 First Cut: Allergic to the 21st Century? CHANNEL 4
BYLINE:
Robert Hanks r.h...@independent.co.uk
mailto:r.h...@independent.co.uk
....
In First Cut: Allergic to the 21st Century?, Anne-Claire Pilley
interviewed a number of people who reckon they are being killed by the
modern world. Some were "electrosensitives", allergic to the "electro-
smog" of radio-waves and electricity generated by urban civilisation;
others found it was chemicals - fabric conditioners, hairspray, paint
- that set off their somewhat vaguely described symptoms. Gillian
McCarthy claimed that she caught it both ways: for 15 years she has
lived in isolation somewhere deep in the countryside in a freezing-
cold, mouse-infested timber shack, for the sake of her health. She
insisted on Pilley and her crew bathing in special soap and wearing
only cotton clothes washed in bicarbonate of soda before allowing a
visit. Even then, she met them wearing a gas-mask and swathed like a
bee-keeper. It is just about possible that all these people are
correct in their self-diagnosis, but it's far more likely that they
have found an outlet for other anxieties; Pilley's film, though
enjoyable, was a bit too even-handed. But there is this to say: none
of them watched television at all. Does that sound like irrational
behaviour to you?
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=838
[ http://www.google.com/search?q=Gillian+McCarthy&ie
http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/browse_thread/thread/3b553e85ef55808
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=allergy
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=sensitivity ]
Allergic to the 21st century?
Allergy victim Gillian McCarthy faces eviction in the new year
The following two articles about Gillian McCarthy being allergic to
the 21st Century have been doing the rounds recently but may I play
the devil's advocate here and suggest that perhaps a far older scourge
is at the root of her health problems.
Note in the articles that it is mentioned that for the past 15 years
she has been living in a "damp- and mould-ridden home".
It has long been known that mold spores (mycotoxins) given off by
household molds are highly toxic and can lead to symptoms virtually
identical to chemical and electro-sensitivity. Effects from exposure
to toxic mold can result in any of the following symptoms: Headaches -
memory loss - problems focusing or concentrating - chronic fatigue -
nose and throat irritation - persistent cold-like symptoms - burning,
itching or watering eyes - dizziness - nausea - tremors - heart
palpitations - shortness of breath (during mild exertion) -
exhaustion- after routine activity - serious swelling in legs, ankles,
feet - serious swelling in torso or stomach - prolonged muscle cramps
and joint pain - sensitivity to- odors - cancer - women who are
pregnant could experience multiple problems, even miscarriages. (Taken
from http://www.sdmold.com/more_on_health_effects.html )
The earliest mention of molds as toxins is in that historical
collection of writings, the Bible. In Leviticus under the heading
"Treatment of Contaminated Houses" 14:33 -57. To quote in part:
"The owner of such a house (contaminated with mildew) must then go to
the priest and say "It appears that my house has some kind of mildew."
Before the priest goes in to inspect the house, he must have the house
emptied so nothing inside will be pronounced ceremonially unclean.
Then the priest will go in and examine the mildew on the walls. If he
finds greenish or reddish streaks and the contamination appears to go
deeper than the wall's surface, the priest will step outside the door
and put the house in quarantine for seven days...."
"On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If
the mildew has spread on the walls, he is to order that the
contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place
outside the town. If the mildew reappears in the house after the
stones have been torn out and the house is scraped and plastered, it
is a destructive mildew and the house is unclean. It must be torn down
- its stones, timbers and all the plaster - and taken out of town."
A house desecrated by mildew, mold, or fungus would be a defiled place
to live in, so drastic measures had to be taken.
If any clothing is contaminated with mildew---any woolen or linen
clothing, any woven or knitted material of linen or wool, any leather
or anything made of leather---if the contamination in the clothing or
leather, or woven or knitted material, or any leather article, is
greenish or reddish, it is a spreading mildew and must be shown to the
priest. The priest is to examine the mildew and isolate the affected
article for seven days?"
So if it were possible to resurrect a 2,000 year biblical priest he
would probably know what Gillian's problem is.
If Gillian got out of the toxic hovel she lives in, she might find
that the 21st century is not as bad as she thought. Bizarre that she
has been living there all these years for the sake of her health!
Unfortunately in a few cases of chronic illness the sufferer
eventually tends to identify his or her sense of self with the disease
and it becomes all encompassing, with a fixated belief as to the
source of the illness. I know of a remarkably similar case here in
Australia of a woman who's naturopath diagnosed her unexplained
chronic illness as being allergic to all sorts of modern synthetic
chemicals. She went through something similar to Gillian until she
went to a doctor who ordered a series of tests. The tests found that
she had diabetes and after getting proper treatment for that condition
all her symptoms went away.
What all this suggests is that such cases an open-minded and critical
investigation should be conducted to rule out other possible
environmental factors before making assumptions that modern technology
must always be the cause.
Don Maisch
************************************
I'm facing a death sentence
Western Daily Press December 17, 2007
Tina Rowet.rowe [at] bepp.co.uk
Allergy victim Gillian McCarthy, who has vowed to kill herself rather
than quit her ramshackle wooden hut, faces eviction in the new year.
Yesterday the woman said to be "allergic to the 21st century"
condemned South Somerset District Council's decision as a "death
sentence."
The council is preparing a specially-equipped caravan for her in an
orchard in the village of Keinton Mandeville, 10 miles from her
current home, at Shepton Montague, near Wincanton.
Pollen alone could kill her
But Miss McCarthy says the caravan and the new site are totally
unsuitable and that pollen from the apple trees alone could kill her.
Speaking from her damp- and mould-ridden home she said: "This is
madness. I think they want to kill me. The new site is an apple
orchard and I am particularly susceptible to apple pollens."
The 53-year-old former nutritional biochemist suffers from multiple
chemical sensitivity syndrome, which means she is allergic to dozens
of substances, including the gases given off by many modern building
materials, and chemicals present in almost every area of modern life.
Her GP, Somerset Primary Care Trust and Somerset Social Services, is
convinced that her present home, which is in danger of collapse, is a
health risk.
The council, which has refused to extend planning permission for the
wooden building, says the caravan is a temporary solution while it
tries to establish a blueprint for a permanent home. It says it has
been unable to do so because Miss McCarthy has refused to accept the
medical expert that the Health Authority wishes to examine her.
Miss McCarthy has applied to have a specially-designed house built on
the Shepton Montague site, but the council says it cannot be sure that
all its features are needed until Miss McCarthy agrees to the
assessment.
Meanwhile Oliver Dowding, the organic farmer who owns the site, is
happy for her to stay, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity International
has launched a campaign to stop her being moved.
In the mid-Nineties Miss McCarthy lived in a tent in a Dorset field to
avoid chemicals but became so ill that health, social services and
housing authorities worked together to find her a better home.
South Somerset issued a planning enforcement notice in June giving
Miss McCarthy until late November to respond. It says she has failed
to do so.
Independent Extra January 4, 2008
Cold Blood ITV1 First Cut: Allergic to the 21st Century? CHANNEL 4
BYLINE:
Robert Hanks r.h...@independent.co.uk
mailto:r.h...@independent.co.uk
....
In First Cut: Allergic to the 21st Century?, Anne-Claire Pilley
interviewed a number of people who reckon they are being killed by the
modern world. Some were "electrosensitives", allergic to the "electro-
smog" of radio-waves and electricity generated by urban civilisation;
others found it was chemicals - fabric conditioners, hairspray, paint
- that set off their somewhat vaguely described symptoms. Gillian
McCarthy claimed that she caught it both ways: for 15 years she has
lived in isolation somewhere deep in the countryside in a freezing-
cold, mouse-infested timber shack, for the sake of her health. She
insisted on Pilley and her crew bathing in special soap and wearing
only cotton clothes washed in bicarbonate of soda before allowing a
visit. Even then, she met them wearing a gas-mask and swathed like a
bee-keeper. It is just about possible that all these people are
correct in their self-diagnosis, but it's far more likely that they
have found an outlet for other anxieties; Pilley's film, though
enjoyable, was a bit too even-handed. But there is this to say: none
of them watched television at all. Does that sound like irrational
behaviour to you?
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=838
[ http://www.google.com/search?q=Gillian+McCarthy&ie
http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/browse_thread/thread/3b553e85ef55808
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=allergy
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=sensitivity ]
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Update On Gillian McCarthy, UK Scientist Dying From Neglect
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=1800&end=1820&view=yes&id=2114#newspost
Gillian's solicitor has applied for planning permission for The Stop
Gap site in an attempt to prevent her being evicted from it soon into
an even more dangerous alternative site. Please help Gillian by
writing to support her planning permission application to South
Somerset District Council, UK.
Gordon D McHendry, MCS International
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