FRED from OR

My Interests:

appliance rebuilding sewing machines woodwork cooking organic agriculture, toxic-free living

Political Skills:

not many

Favorite Quote:

there are liars, damn liars, and statisticians - Mark Twain

About Me:

I have a sever case of the disability MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity) this limits my activity and interests tremendously. Hundreds of kinds of everyday things release vapors/gases that give me intense headaches that can last days. Most mail, magazines, printed stuff has vapors I cannot tolerate. Life for me is a minefield which requires tremendous patience, love, and ingenuity to survive. I have almost no social life because scent, fragrance on people clothes and "body care" products I cannot tolerate. I have a wife and two children on whom I rely intensely for basic necessities and spiritual inspiration. People like me are called mine canaries because of our forced awareness of ubiquitous toxics present in our sea of toxics in our human ecology, which we must recognize in order to avoid, suffering the pain from a momentary exposure.