That's part of what we're looking forward to, certainly, although in some ways it's not as improtant to us as the idea that we will be able to control our environment.
We will be able to create safe spaces where we can put items that need detoxifying, and create other safe spaces where there will be nothing either inside or coming in from outside that can make us sick.
Right now, when we buy books or electronics, we have to do most of the detoxifying inside our living space, in a room that we have to keep aired out - but there's always some leakage. Our washing machine is in the kitchen, so when we wash new clothes or sheets or towels the five or six times that are necessary to get out the perfumes and chemicals picked up from being in warehouses or stores, the fumes get into the rest of the house. And so on.
In the new place, we can set up a detoxification space outside for large items like new furniture. We can make a room in the basement for detoxifying smaller things, and make it and the laundry room air-tight and install fans that would vent the air outside. We can keep our windows shut on smoggy days, or when the neighbours are doing laundry, without toxic fumes from other apartments seeping into our living space. We can seal off the furnace room so it only vents outside.
All of these things that will make it possible for me to be able to breathe more easily - and just maybe, if my exposures are dramatically reduced, I might stop getting sicker all the time - and maybe even get a little better, once my system isn't being stressed by so many chemicals every day.
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Date: 2007-10-20 05:56 pm (UTC)We will be able to create safe spaces where we can put items that need detoxifying, and create other safe spaces where there will be nothing either inside or coming in from outside that can make us sick.
Right now, when we buy books or electronics, we have to do most of the detoxifying inside our living space, in a room that we have to keep aired out - but there's always some leakage. Our washing machine is in the kitchen, so when we wash new clothes or sheets or towels the five or six times that are necessary to get out the perfumes and chemicals picked up from being in warehouses or stores, the fumes get into the rest of the house. And so on.
In the new place, we can set up a detoxification space outside for large items like new furniture. We can make a room in the basement for detoxifying smaller things, and make it and the laundry room air-tight and install fans that would vent the air outside. We can keep our windows shut on smoggy days, or when the neighbours are doing laundry, without toxic fumes from other apartments seeping into our living space. We can seal off the furnace room so it only vents outside.
All of these things that will make it possible for me to be able to breathe more easily - and just maybe, if my exposures are dramatically reduced, I might stop getting sicker all the time - and maybe even get a little better, once my system isn't being stressed by so many chemicals every day.