This is My Biggest Problem

   Description is in the blog posts below:

Bloody Health Blog: High Cost of Living in Poison Part Two

Bloody Health Blog: High Cost of Living in Poison

Bloody Health Blog: Living in Contamination Part Six

Bloody Health Blog: Living in Contamination Part Five

Bloody Health Blog: Chemical Residue is a Plague

Bloody Health Blog: Differences Between Living in Subsidized Housing and Regular Apartments

Bloody Health Blog: Living in Contamination Part Four

Bloody Health Blog: Living in Contamination Part Three

Bloody Health Blog: Living in Contamination Part Two

Bloody Health Blog: Living in Contamination Part One

Bloody Health Blog: Medical Error Part Two

Bloody Health Blog: Medical Error Part One

Open Letter to Environmental Protection Agency

  I strongly feel that there is a problem with the usage of chemicals that leave a residue in the Cincinnati, OH area.  This is particularly a problem in low-income areas and in subsidized housing.  I think subsidized housing would be a good program if some key problems were resolved.  In a factual and non-ideological way I really think there is a problem with these kinds of harmful chemical exposures in this area.  

I have experienced  problems with harmful chemical exposures over and over again and have detailed this on my blog.  I personally have been under surveillance for 7 years now.  I think the fact that these kinds of chemical exposures cause harm to humans is already known by some government officials on some level.

I feel that this problem is something that requires a large organization to resolve.  I do not think individual people or local landlords are able to resolve this problem.  I feel that resolution or progress towards resolving the problem of harmful chemical exposures would relieve a significant burden for many Americans.  These chemical exposures that leave a residue are nearly impossible to clean up. 

Ways to Avoid Harmful Chemical Exposures

 Cedarwood spray can be used in place of harmful pesticides to kill bed bugs.  It also kills roaches.  Unlike Diatomaceous earth, this product does make a massive mess in one’s apartment.  As far as I know cedarwood spray does not cause any harm to people. 

Inner city housing often has problems with bed bugs.  I have found that the best way to kill bed bugs is to get cloth mattress covers for one’s mattress.  These do not rip like vinyl mattress covers.  Putting all of one’s clothes and bed sheets in the dryer kills the bed bugs.  It can also be helpful to put tape over electrical sockets that are not in use so that bed bugs do not get in them.  

Dish Soap and peppermint oil can be used to kill spiders.  I used this in my home in Indiana.  I used to get wolf spiders in the fall season.  

In many cases chemical exposures can be avoided by wearing nitrile gloves.  Nitrile gloves can be worn when one is pumping gas or working on one’s car.  

Union for Disabled People

 There needs to be a union for disabled people that is run by disabled people in the United States.  Too often the needs of disabled people are ignored.  Many health problems are caused by medical error, chemical exposures and on the job accidents.  It's more likely for a person to be victimized when they are disabled and cannot defend themselves as well.  The many burdens of society should not be heaped unto the underprivileged.  

Since some disabled people cannot work they may be seen as disposable.  

Chemical Injury References

  References about Chemical Injury:

1.  MCS_-_Scientific_Medical_Evidence.pdf (dr-bradford.com)

2.  MCS_-_Scientific_Medical_Evidence.pdf (dr-bradford.com)

3.  Chemical Injury Information Network (ciin.org)

4.  Environmental Health Network: EHN

High Cost of Living in Poison Part Two

  8.  Laundry: I am having to pay a lot more money for laundry than I normally would.  I have had to wash my clothes and bed sheets over and over again for years to try to remove the chemical residue from them.  This is a vain effort because they always end up getting contaminated again.  I find it particularly degrading when I lie in bed at night and can taste chemicals in my mouth.  Thus I tend to do my laundry more often.  I have probably spent over $100 doing my laundry since last November when I had another chemical residue exposure in my home.  This also makes me more vulnerable to theft because sometimes people steal my laundry.  

9.  Health products:  I do spend more money than most many every month on vitamins, minerals and other health supplements.  I also buy healthier food, which is more expensive.  When one has chemical injury it is helpful to go on an elimination diet.  One cannot tolerate as many foods as most people.  One of the main things in my diet is brown rice noodles, which are expensive.  I cannot recover from the health problems that I have because I live in a contaminated apartment.  Thus I will not recover from the food sensitivities that I have.  I will continue to buy expensive food items every month.  Disabled people with food sensitivities cannot go to food pantries because they are sensitive to the food that is there.  Thus we continue to pay through the nose for food every month.  

My efforts to improve my health are in vain because I live in a contaminated apartment.  

10.  Computer:  My computer was recently broken from having to clean it all the time.  I had to buy another computer.  If I had not been living in a contaminated apartment I would not have had to replace my computer.  

11.  Receipts:  Sometimes items need to be returned.  I find that I cannot save receipts because they end up getting chemical residue on them.  This keeps me from returning some items and costs me more money. I have not been able to keep receipts for these damages that I have had to endure.

12.  Kitchen items:  In my home I have a blender, a cooking pot for my stove, a microwave and a strainer.  I also have a brita water purifier.  I have had to repeatedly replace these items in an effort to avoid consuming chemical residue that spreads throughout my apartment.  I have found that the worst damage to a person occurs when they consume chemical residue in their food.  Chemical residue can get in one's food if it gets on one's kitchenware.  

I had to get rid of all of my plates, bowls, and silverware.  This is because I do not want to get chemical residue on these items.  I have to buy paper bowls, plastic silverware and plastic cups.  This becomes expensive every month.  

13.  Cellphone:  One of the items that tends to get contaminated in the worst way is my cellphone.  I have repeatedly had to replace my cell phone because it gets contaminated with chemical residue.  I find that no matter how much I clean the phone the chemical residue cannot be removed from the phone.  Cleaning the phone ends up breaking it over time and I have to replace the phone.  

14.  Nitrile Gloves:  I have spent a small fortune on nitrile gloves since 2015.  I have to wear nitrile gloves when I am making my food so that I do not get chemical residue in my meals.  I am also having to clean my home everyday and use nitrile gloves for this.  

I am already on disability and thus these expenses are a massive burden.   When I look back and think about all the times I have been screwed over in my life it really makes me feel terrible.  

What is the point of working hard and trying to build a life for oneself if it can all be destroyed like this? 

High Cost of Living in Poison

 In 2015 before I was first harmed by chemical exposures I did not have much debt.  I lived a frugal lifestyle.  My only debts were for student loans and also medical bills.  It was odd that I had medical debt given that my health problems were caused by medical error.  Ever since 2015 I have been driven into bankruptcy and extreme poverty.

I have had to pay through the nose for: 

1.  Cleaning supplies:  I am having to clean my home everyday in a vain attempt to reduce the chemical residue in my home.  This requires me to buy paper towels, hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol (this has made me sick).  This also wastes a lot of my time.  I could write a whole separate post about how much time and energy is wasted by having to live in this kind of environment.  

2.  Living in this contaminated environment has caused me to have to purchase a home infrared sauna, which was $560.  I only get about $900 a month from social security for my disability.  This disability is not getting better because I am living in a contaminated apartment.  

3.  The chemical exposures I experienced in 2014 required me to put most of the items in my home in zip lock bags.  I also bought three hepa air filters for my apartment to try to remove the desiccants from the air.  The biggest problem was the desiccant dust got all over my home and was impossible to remove from my personal property.  

4.  Damages to my home:  Before all of this happened I had a nice home to live in.  I had lived in Erlanger, KY for 4 years.  My entire home was basically destroyed gradually by all of these chemical exposures.  I had many books, CDs, movies, 2 Ipods, those are all gone.  I had memorabilia of family and friends this is all gone.  I kept a lot of binders, notebooks and file boxes with notebook paper in them.  This is all gone.  Almost every single possession that I had from before 2013 I have lost.  The only items that I still have are computer back-up disks, whatever is saved in my e-mail and clothing.

5.  I cannot keep notebook paper in my home.  I really cannot make a journal or keep notes on anything.  Any use of paper has to be kept to a minimum.  Thus if I want to make note of something I have to put it in my computer.  My computer is under heavy surveillance.  This is degrading.  People have open access to basically everything I know.  

6.  Subsidized housing is a government funded program.  Thus government agencies pay part of the rent for people to live in these apartments.  I don't think it benefits government or anyone for people to be living in contamination.  

7.  I have had to stay at extended stay hotels many times since 2014.  I stayed at an extended stay hotel in Florence, KY for about 3 months in 2014.  This place was about $900 a month.  During this time I also had to pay $225 for subsidized housing.  Thus I was paying $1,125 a month.  The reason I had to pay rent to subsidized housing was so I could transfer to another apartment.  

I had to pay $1,125 a month for three months due to an accident that was caused by my landlord.  Does this make sense?  Do these people have self-discipline or restraint?  When someone else makes a mess, why do I have to clean it up?  

I moved into another subsidized apartment in late 2014.  I only lived there about 6 months.  I stayed in an extended stay hotel for a week in mid-2015 during the move.  This was between $200-300 for a week.  I was then evicted from shared housing near the end of May in 2015.  

I moved to Indianapolis and stayed in another extended stay hotel for a week.  This cost me between $200-300 once again.  Between 2014-2015 I stayed at extended stay hotels in 3 different locations that were owned by the same organization.  When I moved back to Cincinnati, OH in 2019 I noticed that his organization had changed their name.  I am not sure why this is.  

Recently I stayed at an extended stay hotel in Cincinnati.  This was so I could get out of my contaminated apartment for a brief time.  I wanted to see how I would feel.  I did feel quite a bit better.  I feel that I am somewhat paralyzed on a daily basis by living in a contaminated environment.  I did have to take the bus back to my contaminated apartment several times.  This was so I could use my home infrared sauna.  The chemical injuries I have endured have caused me to need almost daily sauna visits for up to two hours.  I've been bound to the bloody sauna!

Living in Contamination Part Six

 Many of the mail boxes in my building do not actually close.  One of those is my mailbox and this resulted in the theft of my mail late last year.  I told the maintenance guy here that someone stole a gift card that my aunt got my for my birthday.  He asked me if I,  "needed food?"  Is this person stupid?   I asked maintenance not to use any chemicals during the repair.  For some reason this was not possible.  

After maintenance came in and examined the mailbox I could tell that he had chemical residue on his hands.  The chemical residue got all over the inside of my mailbox.  As a result this, all of my mail now gets chemical residue on it.  I now have to wear nitrile gloves to get my mail.   It would appear that this person is exposed to chemicals on a regular basis, consciously or unconsciously. This really seems very strange and bad. It is difficult to imagine how the planet could possibly be screwed up in this particular way. How has this happened?

When I was living in a studio apartment in Indianapolis, IN I did not ever have to worry about maintenance exposing me to chemicals. The maintenance man at my apartment was a friend. He was a wiz at auto mechanics and computer repair. He worked on cars regularly, which obviously involves chemicals. He did not use nitrile gloves. Not once did this person ever expose me to chemical residue. Why is this? It seems like people in subsidized housing are doing something wrong here.

In these situations where I am been exposed to chemical residue, I have been almost completely alone. I am on list servs for people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. Few people have ever experienced anything like this before consciously. Many of the people seem to live on the west coast where there are more strict laws about chemical exposures. I have yet to find an expert that really understands this situation in any effective way. How the hell would I know what to do in a situation like this? I am an innocent primate. This chemical residue problem has destroyed my home and my health.

Living in Contamination Part Five

 This is a horrible story that does not seem to end.  Every time I think I am safe from chemical residue exposures, another one happens.  Organizations and institutions need to take note of this problem and make the necessary changes.  Exposing people to harmful chemicals should be avoided.  People in maintenance and construction, who use these kinds of chemicals, need to become aware of this problem.  This is for their own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others.  The individual should not have to hover over maintenance personnel and make sure they don't expose people to chemicals.  Maintenance people should not expose people to chemicals on their own volition.  When I walk down the street do I need to put up a sign for cars that says "Don't hit me?"

I recently broke my hip.  I fell on some ice on the sidewalk near the building that I live in.  The sidewalk had not be cleared and was unusually icy.  It was like walking onto an ice skating rink out of the blue.  I think part of the reason I broke my hip is because my body has been damaged by chemical exposures for over five years now. 

I was in the hospital for about five days and my leg had not healed.  I then stayed at a nursing home on the west side of town for about 2.5 weeks.  At the end of the stay I was given a walker to use for awhile.  Right before I left one of the people from maintenance thought the walker was the property of the building and cleaned it with some kind of industrial cleaning solution.  I saw this and told him to stop.  He had already made a mess.  The damage was done.  This cleaning solution is another one of theses chemical exposures that is impossible to remove and spreads by touch.  The massive burden and damage caused in situations like this cannot be underestimated.  Who wants to be poisoned everyday?

I told building staff that this was a problem and that I wanted another walker that had not been screwed up.  They had the maintenance guy and his supervisor talk to me.  They said the chemical could be removed with water and soap.  This was not true.  They also lied and said the walker was cleaned with the solution before the guy from maintenance wiped it down.  I don't think this was true either.  There is too much of this attitude that, "Experts know what is best for you."  If that is true then why is my home covered in chemicals?  The experts have really failed on this issue.

The maintenance supervisor then took the walker into the shower and washed it off with soap and water.  This did not remove the chemical residue or make much of a dent in the problem.  I had just gotten out of the hospital and was in quite a bit of pain.  It was very difficult to deal with these two people by myself.  They would not give me another walker and I was stuck with the one that they had contaminated.  I could not leave the site without any walker at all.   

I then went home and this of course got all over my apartment and everything in it.  That is disgusting and horrible.  It is despicable that this keeps happening over and over again.  I would rather someone come into my apartment and take a shit on the floor.  At least I could clean that up.  

All people are sensitive to chemicals on some level.  Only some people have multiple chemical sensitivities.  I think that these kinds of chemical exposures would affect any person.  People do not know everything.  Many people have not heard of this problem.  Simply because people have not heard of something does not mean that it does not exist in the world.  This problem is not new.  I cannot describe how horrible and disgraceful it is to go through things like this.  To be disabled and deeply exhausted and then have maintenance people contaminate my home and property, then run away and leave me with the burden.  This has got to be stopped 100%.  I think if society were not so fast paced there would be fewer problems like this.  People need to have more time to collect themselves and rest.

Throughout history I don't know how many societies have managed to make their citizens sick.  That is a horrible burden to leave any person with.  People with chronic health problems are certainly not going to be some kind of active citizenry.  The people are not the ones causing chemical exposures, the problem is caused by organizations.  Organizations have wealth and resources that could be used to resolve this problem.  People do not have those kinds of resources.  Some people have fulfilling lives, go out on the weekends and have relationships with other people.  Some people are burdened by the many problems of society and do not lead fulfilling lives at all.  

I think every time one of these chemical exposures happens there should be 100% restoration of the damage caused to a person's body and property.  This is a burden that should be handled by organizations and not by individual people.  Individual people should not have to be harmed by the mistakes of government or corporations.  Such organizations must have accountability.  If someone makes a mess, I think they should clean it up.  Suffering is often caused by ignorance.  No one wants to suffer due to the ignorance of other people.  

In situations like this I think the amount of suffering caused by things like this is underestimated, unheard and unrecognized. Nobody ever says, "I want to be repeatedly chemically injured and have it drive me into poverty and destitution.  Then I want to spend much of my life attempting to clean up chemicals that cannot be removed."  I am Ryan's liver.  I do not want to be harmed by chemicals it keeps me from growing as a person.  

Of all the burdens a person could take on for a society I think these chemical exposures are over the line because they make people sick.  I could dig a ditch or do some other kind of work.  I don't think I should have to do this.  I did not cause this problem.  If I were not tied down in this horrible way I could use my energy and resources in a more fulfilling way.