Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:48:26 GMT -5
A report from 2002:
I'm in New York, out in the country, in a 'feel great place'. I had the CFS/Fibro and this is one of the few places I actually felt good in. In fact, many people that come out to where I live, feel better. I had a friend of mine whose mother-in-law came over to visit and put her cane away for the duration of her stay. But she had to use the cane again when she returned to the big city. Many stories like that. And there are feel great places in Pennsylvania.
I used to make regular camping trips to the Allegheny National
Forest because it was a feel good place and it temporarily held back the IBS and CFS. The effect lasted three to four weeks and then the symptoms would return.
The inverse is also true. So being in a feel good place, and traveling to a feel bad place, used to induce the symptoms. Even more if I had something to eat at a feel bad place.
And here is another interesting observation. I've noticed that there are actually feel bad 'bands' en route to feel bad places. These are areas that I noticed on the road to feel bad places which are spaced about two to five miles apart and seem to create some form of brain dysfunction, usually memory loss. I had noticed this years ago, but it wasn't until recently did I explore this.
I was working in Buffalo, NY and it is about an hour drive from where I now live. So on my way to work, I would sing American Pie. Everything is fine until I start getting close to the city. About twenty miles out, I can't remember the words. This effect would last for about a mile and then everything would return to normal until I hit another band. I had tried this for about a little over a month with repeatable results, except for the fact that those 'bands' were not consistent in location, and sometimes the 'bands' didn't exist. None of this had anything to do with the weather, barometric pressure, or temperature, nor wind direction. The inverse was also true. Driving away from the city seemed to increase memory, although the effect wasn't as noticeable until I got back home. Also traffic speed seemed to slow down in feel bad 'bands'.
Once I detected those bands, I started to pay attention to what other drivers were doing. So normally everybody is speeding to some extent. Then we hit a band and traffic slows down. I have seen the traffic going as much as ten mph under the speed limit in those bands and then speed up again after leaving the band, then slow down again, then speed up again. It is sort of interesting if you know what to look for.
I moved out to the country from the city about 6 years ago on the advise of a friend of mine who also lived in the city and was suffering from similar symptoms. If I were still in the city, I'd be pushing up weeds in a cemetary.
So the good areas are anywhere in the Allegheny National Forest in western Pennsylvania and central/western New York specifically near and around the Letchworth State Park area.
Where I live the weeds grow bigger, the bugs are bigger, there is a diversity of wildlife, and the people live longer. My wife works with 3 people that are near 80 years old. My neighbor, who still plants a garden, mows his lawn (3 acres), rakes his leaves in the fall, and goes out driving all over the place, is 94. My neighbor on the other side of me is 95. I heard there may be people down the road from me that are over 100. This is got to tell you something! Could be the water, could be the air.
-Jerry
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I'm in New York, out in the country, in a 'feel great place'. I had the CFS/Fibro and this is one of the few places I actually felt good in. In fact, many people that come out to where I live, feel better. I had a friend of mine whose mother-in-law came over to visit and put her cane away for the duration of her stay. But she had to use the cane again when she returned to the big city. Many stories like that. And there are feel great places in Pennsylvania.
I used to make regular camping trips to the Allegheny National
Forest because it was a feel good place and it temporarily held back the IBS and CFS. The effect lasted three to four weeks and then the symptoms would return.
The inverse is also true. So being in a feel good place, and traveling to a feel bad place, used to induce the symptoms. Even more if I had something to eat at a feel bad place.
And here is another interesting observation. I've noticed that there are actually feel bad 'bands' en route to feel bad places. These are areas that I noticed on the road to feel bad places which are spaced about two to five miles apart and seem to create some form of brain dysfunction, usually memory loss. I had noticed this years ago, but it wasn't until recently did I explore this.
I was working in Buffalo, NY and it is about an hour drive from where I now live. So on my way to work, I would sing American Pie. Everything is fine until I start getting close to the city. About twenty miles out, I can't remember the words. This effect would last for about a mile and then everything would return to normal until I hit another band. I had tried this for about a little over a month with repeatable results, except for the fact that those 'bands' were not consistent in location, and sometimes the 'bands' didn't exist. None of this had anything to do with the weather, barometric pressure, or temperature, nor wind direction. The inverse was also true. Driving away from the city seemed to increase memory, although the effect wasn't as noticeable until I got back home. Also traffic speed seemed to slow down in feel bad 'bands'.
Once I detected those bands, I started to pay attention to what other drivers were doing. So normally everybody is speeding to some extent. Then we hit a band and traffic slows down. I have seen the traffic going as much as ten mph under the speed limit in those bands and then speed up again after leaving the band, then slow down again, then speed up again. It is sort of interesting if you know what to look for.
I moved out to the country from the city about 6 years ago on the advise of a friend of mine who also lived in the city and was suffering from similar symptoms. If I were still in the city, I'd be pushing up weeds in a cemetary.
So the good areas are anywhere in the Allegheny National Forest in western Pennsylvania and central/western New York specifically near and around the Letchworth State Park area.
Where I live the weeds grow bigger, the bugs are bigger, there is a diversity of wildlife, and the people live longer. My wife works with 3 people that are near 80 years old. My neighbor, who still plants a garden, mows his lawn (3 acres), rakes his leaves in the fall, and goes out driving all over the place, is 94. My neighbor on the other side of me is 95. I heard there may be people down the road from me that are over 100. This is got to tell you something! Could be the water, could be the air.
-Jerry
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