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Multiple Chemical Sensitivity can develop when the body’s
immune system breaks down due to one big toxic chemical overload or
small exposures over a long period of time. The overload breaks
through the blood brain barrier so minute particles of chemicals can
cause severe or life threatening toxic reactions. To survive most MCS
people literally withdraw from the world and although shattered and
grieving, endeavour to rebuild and adjust away from pesticides,
fragrances, plastics, petrol fumes etc. Some are alienated from non
supportive family and are outcasts of Society. For a lot there is
difficulty in finding chemical free food and pure water, careers are
lost, no more travel on public transport, no more days out shopping or
coffee with friends.
I was diagnosed with MCS. One of the adjustments was not
being able to go to Church due to fragrances. It is amazing how real
scriptures become when it is the only thing to hang on to. In one
incident I’d been affected by weedkiller residues coming into my home
from a neighbour spraying. I was so ill I could only lie on the
floor. I told God I didn’t like this situation but then kept repeating
the “God will not send anything more than I can deal with and with that
will give me a way out. I said this till I was able to get up. Other
times I’ve just asked God not to let me give up, or to give me the
strength to hang in there.
Another incident at another house, I was in toxic shock
from paint vapours and could feel myself tipping over the edge. I sat
on the bed and said to God that I believed the Scriptures to be true for
today as they were back when the incidents happened. The lady with the
bleeding knew she only needed to touch the cloak of Jesus and she would
be healed. I claimed Jesus’ healing for myself and symbolically put my
hand out and believed I took hold of Jesus’ cloak. I felt the effects
of the shock disappear. It was a miracle.
In one of the Sermon Notes that I had received, it said
not to reclaim the condition back by saying “my this and my that” when
we have asked God for healing. Our words are powerful. I now try to
talk in the third person context if talking about MCS. If I phone to
ask if a place has been pest sprayed I say it is better for my health
not to have contact with it, instead of saying how it would affect me.
I am getting better, Praise God! He has supplied all that I need to get
better. My immune system has kicked in!! |
