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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 23:11:25 GMT -5
We are trying to include as many threads as possible for ratings, but listing every country in the world is a challenge!
If a place where you've visited is missing, please let me know and we will add it.
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Caves
Jul 24, 2011 23:08:35 GMT -5
Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 23:08:35 GMT -5
I had a good experience visiting Wind Cave in South Dakota. I was scared to death to go inside but am really glad that I did! (This was November 2010.)
I tried to go to the cave at Mojave Desert Preserve, but my heart started beating fast right at the entrance so I bailed. This was April 2009.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 23:02:14 GMT -5
This is a duplicate from the "Read This First" section of the board.
The main goal of the board is for us to share evaluations of different locations with one another. Hopefully we will be able to calculate average ratings for different places as well as to collect in-depth information about our experiences.
Rating locations is easy! All we need are three pieces of information for each place:
* Where you went * When you were there (month/year) * Your numerical rating
Please use the following scale to rate locations on how you felt (compared to how you feel on average):
5 - Excellent 4 - Good 3 - Fair 2 - Poor 1 - Awful
So a 5-star locations is a terrific one, and a 1-star location is a terrible one.
Because this is an exploratory project, knowing your diagnosis is important. Please share that as part of your report, or include it in a post in the "Introduce Yourself" section (at the bottom of the board). It also would be helpful to know other places you have lived or traveled, as a comparison point.
If you have time and are willing, it would be great if you were to provide as much other information as you can about the places you've been, including:
* exactly where you went * what you did * where you stayed * specifics of how you felt
Details may turn out to be important, so please share!
However, if all you can provide is just a numerical score, that would be great too.
If you felt particularly good or particularly bad in a location, but think that it was likely due to something other than the Locations Effect, please make a note of it.
Thanks very much for your contributions!
Best,
Paul (Pol) Beith Lisa Petrison
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 20:03:55 GMT -5
Please include reports on Western Australia (including Perth) here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 20:03:19 GMT -5
Please share reports on Victoria (including Melbourne) in Australia here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 20:02:47 GMT -5
Please share reports on Tasmania (including Hobart) in Australia here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 20:02:05 GMT -5
Please share reports on South Australia (including Adelaide) here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 20:01:26 GMT -5
Please share reports on Queensland (including Brisband) in Australia here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 20:00:45 GMT -5
Please share reports on the Northern Territory (including Darwin) in Australia here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:59:52 GMT -5
Please share reports on New South Wales (including Sydney) in Australia here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:59:02 GMT -5
Please share reports on Australian Capital Territory (including Canberra) here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:58:05 GMT -5
A report from 2002: Hi, I am 45. I contracted M>E when I was 24, it lasted in a chronic bedridden way until I was about 31. Then for 10 years I worked full time in a very demanding job. Let me tell you I was amazed to ever get back to work! I also had a child (!) However, I have always had residual leftover symptoms from the time I had Chronic M>E. Bad back pain, tire easily, and have developed early onset oesteoporosis (I think this is related to the stress of my body coping when I was severely ill) My skin has always retained some overall tenderness (I am sure some of you know what I mean). My brain fully recovered from that foggy feeling (thank God) What I did to get better was to move to a part of the country with high sunshine and dry days. I found wet, grey weather added to my feelings of being unwell. I live in Nelson, in New Zealand. I think living in smaller cities helps. As far as climate goes, Nelson is about the best place I can probably live in NZ - but I find cold winters hard still. -Delia health.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFS_CFIDS_ME/message/226?l=1
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:53:12 GMT -5
Please share reports on North Dakota here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:50:19 GMT -5
Please share reports on West Virginia here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:50:00 GMT -5
Please share reports on Virginia here.
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Vermont
Jul 24, 2011 19:49:41 GMT -5
Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:49:41 GMT -5
Please share reports on Vermont here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:49:21 GMT -5
Please share reports on Tennessee here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:48:51 GMT -5
Please share reports on Rhode Island here.
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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 health.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFS_CFIDS_ME/message/199?l=1
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Oregon
Jul 24, 2011 19:48:03 GMT -5
Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:48:03 GMT -5
A report from 2003: I ran out of places to stay in Seattle after a year of homelessness, so I accepted an invitation from friend in Ashland, Oregon to spend a month with him (it could've been two months but the Seattle Housing Authority is requiring me to return to Seattle in July for an appeal hearing). The climate here is wonderful for me so far. Sunny, warm, and dry. Just he way I like it! I'll keep you all posted on my progress. But so far I've taken out a membership in the YMCA and am swimming and lifting weights on a regular schedule. I bought a new bike and am cycling around town. I still need lots of rest and recovery time but when I'm feeling up I really feel great. And when I feel down, it's not the suicidal depression inducing dysfunction that has plagued me the last few winters in Seattle. I just feel tired and so I rest until I feel like getting up and moving around again. -Will health.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFS_CFIDS_ME/message/308?l=1
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:47:43 GMT -5
FAIR (3)
In November 2008, I drove south through eastern Oklahoma toward Texas. I spent a night in a hotel in Tulsa.
I felt reasonably okay while in this state -- much better than I did after I got to Texas, and better than i did in the Midwest earlier in the week.
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Update: On a sunny day in early 2011, I drove south on I-35 to Oklahoma City, then west toward Amarillo (TX) on I-40. It felt okay to me, not great. (3-FAIR)
My suspicion is that the biggest problem in this area is stuff that blows up from Dallas. It's hard to imagine that toxins could blow this far, but I actually think that they may blow even further (into Kansas). Maybe one day, someone (not me) will find out for sure.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:46:34 GMT -5
Please share reports on New Hampshire here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:45:45 GMT -5
Please share reports on Mississippi here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:43:49 GMT -5
Justin, a healthy friend of mine, wrote in April 2012:
I was looking for a hotel near Towson MD where I could stay while going out to pick up my son from college. After my last experience at a place so full of mold I couldn't breathe, and I'm not particularly sensitive, I cast a wider net, read the reviews. It appears that almost every motel/hotel within a nine mile radius of Towson has mold (one contractor reported black mold specifically), faulty plumbing, wet carpets and other indicia of toxic mold. I finally located a Courtyard about 9 miles away from the college that had all positive reports and sounded habitable, more than I meant to spend, but hey, it's only my health, right? I think you might add the greater Baltimore area to your list of brownfields or black zones or whatever you call areas unfit for human habitation. If it gets to me, it's pretty damn bad.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:42:00 GMT -5
Please share reports on Connecticut here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:41:18 GMT -5
Please share reports on Arkansas here.
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Alaska
Jul 24, 2011 19:40:57 GMT -5
Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:40:57 GMT -5
Please share reports on Alaska here.
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Alabama
Jul 24, 2011 19:40:36 GMT -5
Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:40:36 GMT -5
Please share reports on Alabama here.
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Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:39:36 GMT -5
Please share reports on Zacatecas here.
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Yucatan
Jul 24, 2011 19:39:12 GMT -5
Post by Lisa Petrison on Jul 24, 2011 19:39:12 GMT -5
Please share reports on Yucatan (including Mérida) here.
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