Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 9:11:27 GMT -5
NEW YORK CITY: GOOD (4)
I’ve not been to NYC since doing extreme avoidance, but used to visit there a few times a year. I almost always felt really good while I was there (much better than in Chicago), provided that I wasn’t staying in a big hotel. Presumably it's better there in warmer months, but I recall having some pretty successful trips in the winter too.
In Spring 2008, about six months after moving out of my moldy house and abandoning all my stuff, I visited for the first time in about a year. (My "core health" -- e.g. my reactivity -- had gone down since my last visit, but I was doing well enough with avoidance to make the trip.) I started out feeling really good there for a couple of days, but then slid all of a sudden (while taking a walk on the Upper East Side). I am not sure if it was from getting a Vitamin C IV (maybe the dose was too high by mistake and caused a Lyme herx) or from running into an outdoor mold plume. I think it was the IV though (it was about an hour afterward), since I stayed sick for a few days and didn't get any better from showering.
I'm hesitant to go on airplanes now, but I think I would likely be fine on a visit to NYC once I got there. It's peculiar that it would be one of the cities that I feel best in, but (like Tokyo) it does get a lot of air circulation as a result of how it's situated. And while there's certainly a lot of pollution there, maybe there's not as much industry as some places.
There also are lots of moldy hotels in NYC, of course. I always stayed in smaller hotels rather than big ones with recirculating air, because I "liked them." (Before I understood about toxins, I thought I felt better for emotional reasons.) Hotels I did well in were the Gershwin (in the Garment District), the Hotel Metro (in Midtown) and the Lucerne (on the Upper West Side).
Other than the hotels, I'm not sure most of the buildings in NYC are horrifically moldy. I did okay in one of the Broadway theaters on my last trip there (before experiencing that sudden decline), for instance.
Of course, NYC is not a good place for extreme reactors. But it's doesn't seem to me to be as bad as one might think, for moderate ones. I know one Moldie who (since abandoning a bad place and all of his contaminated stuff) has been okay in Brooklyn as long as he's very careful about where he lives, for instance.
I've spent all my time in NYC in Manhattan. I also visited Brooklyn Heights once (in spring), and it felt fine too. I have no idea how I would feel in any of the surrounding areas, therefore.
BERKSHIRES: GOOD (4)
During the summer of either 2003 or 2004, I paid a brief visit to the Berkshires. I went to a play at their theater festival and visited the home of Edith Wharton. I stayed in a small hotel that Edith Wharton lived in for a while. I felt really good during that trip.
I’ve not been to NYC since doing extreme avoidance, but used to visit there a few times a year. I almost always felt really good while I was there (much better than in Chicago), provided that I wasn’t staying in a big hotel. Presumably it's better there in warmer months, but I recall having some pretty successful trips in the winter too.
In Spring 2008, about six months after moving out of my moldy house and abandoning all my stuff, I visited for the first time in about a year. (My "core health" -- e.g. my reactivity -- had gone down since my last visit, but I was doing well enough with avoidance to make the trip.) I started out feeling really good there for a couple of days, but then slid all of a sudden (while taking a walk on the Upper East Side). I am not sure if it was from getting a Vitamin C IV (maybe the dose was too high by mistake and caused a Lyme herx) or from running into an outdoor mold plume. I think it was the IV though (it was about an hour afterward), since I stayed sick for a few days and didn't get any better from showering.
I'm hesitant to go on airplanes now, but I think I would likely be fine on a visit to NYC once I got there. It's peculiar that it would be one of the cities that I feel best in, but (like Tokyo) it does get a lot of air circulation as a result of how it's situated. And while there's certainly a lot of pollution there, maybe there's not as much industry as some places.
There also are lots of moldy hotels in NYC, of course. I always stayed in smaller hotels rather than big ones with recirculating air, because I "liked them." (Before I understood about toxins, I thought I felt better for emotional reasons.) Hotels I did well in were the Gershwin (in the Garment District), the Hotel Metro (in Midtown) and the Lucerne (on the Upper West Side).
Other than the hotels, I'm not sure most of the buildings in NYC are horrifically moldy. I did okay in one of the Broadway theaters on my last trip there (before experiencing that sudden decline), for instance.
Of course, NYC is not a good place for extreme reactors. But it's doesn't seem to me to be as bad as one might think, for moderate ones. I know one Moldie who (since abandoning a bad place and all of his contaminated stuff) has been okay in Brooklyn as long as he's very careful about where he lives, for instance.
I've spent all my time in NYC in Manhattan. I also visited Brooklyn Heights once (in spring), and it felt fine too. I have no idea how I would feel in any of the surrounding areas, therefore.
BERKSHIRES: GOOD (4)
During the summer of either 2003 or 2004, I paid a brief visit to the Berkshires. I went to a play at their theater festival and visited the home of Edith Wharton. I stayed in a small hotel that Edith Wharton lived in for a while. I felt really good during that trip.