{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0028","number":"0028","name":"Valerie Stuart","organization":"","posted":"2026-09-21T04:00Z","received":"2026-09-21T04:00Z","body":"    I was an office administrator, sat next to servers and routers for years. I noticed if I spent the whole weekend in my bedroom (shared rental) I'd feel unwell. I retired in 2020 and got really sick like I was being poisoned.  Doctors couldn't figure it out and I was having thoughts that I'd have to leave this world if it continued.  An EMF expert came to my home and said my 2 cordless phones were putting out 60,000mw of RF each. I start feeling sick at 60mw.  At night, the house router was on the other side of the wall, a few feet from my head and he said with the smart TV at my feet, it was like baking in a microwave oven. I got rid of cordless phones, hard-wired my devices and changed to ethernet and felt a lot better.  \n    However, I can't go to libraries, concerts, church, some restaurants and coffee shops with lots of RF or strong routers.  I get dizzy, my energy goes down, then I feel nausea and like my whole body is being poisoned.  I visited a friend in the hospital and was sick within 15 minutes and had to leave after 20 mins and I was weaving as I walked out, I was so sick.\n    I went to a talk in a library and started feeling sick.  Another woman told me she was feeling sick too.  I looked up and saw there was a huge wi-fi router above our heads.  After about 10 mins after we moved away, we started feeling better.  There was a coffee shop about 20 of us met at, and 5 of us would get sick because the router was running such high wi-fi frequency.\n    It's very sad and depressing for me to not be able to go to the senior center to play cards or hear talks and I often can't go to card games.  I can't take a bus, train or airplane trip with everyone's cell phones and the RF on the vehicles. Can’t ride in friend’s EV cars and so I haven’t been able to take a trip for 15 years.  \n    My life is very limited now.  I can no longer work in offices and am in financial hardship because there are few places I can work because most require being near wi-fi equipment.  I do some caregiving, but I often feel sick if I have to work close to a router and their phones and computers.  I’m 72yo and it’s taking a toll on my finances and physical and emotional energy.\n","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0028","tags":["health-experiences","exposure-places"],"source_hash":"913339702d947d34751518494c43dbe681d4e5814537d8869c3d07df50e48351","slug":"health-experiences-comment-0028","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0028","body_sha256":"b65b5f46c31275fc28142114dd4bae1771baee7486018207a30510a18da31a7a","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"wifi","topics":[{"id":"wifi","evidence":"I was an office administrator, sat next to servers and routers for years. I noticed if I spent the whole weekend in my bedroom (shared rental) I'd feel unwell. I retired in 2020 and got really sick like I was being poisoned.  Doctors couldn'"},{"id":"neurological","evidence":"I was an office administrator, sat next to servers and routers for years. I noticed if I spent the whole weekend in my bedroom (shared rental) I'd feel unwell. I retired in 2020 and got really sick like I was being poisoned.  Doctors couldn't figure it"},{"id":"optical","evidence":"mart TV at my feet, it was like baking in a microwave oven. I got rid of cordless phones, hard-wired my devices and changed to ethernet and felt a lot better.  \n    However, I can't go to libraries, concerts, church, some restaurants and coffee shops with lots of RF or strong rou"},{"id":"access","evidence":"d up and saw there was a huge wi-fi router above our heads.  After about 10 mins after we moved away, we started feeling better.  There was a coffee shop about 20 of us met at, and 5 of us would get sick because the router was running such high wi-fi frequency.\n    It's ver"}],"summary":"The commenter reports illness around routers and cordless phones, improvement with wired connections, and major restrictions on work, travel and community activities.","reviewed_at":"2026-09-22T01:54:07Z","review_method":"AI source-text review; explicit topic passages; 2026-09-22","review_source_sha256":"d41800ef84da0a2785d8375d5e922a8f04a24e29ac9ee59aa77e2a88434921d2","source_url":"https://rfsafe.net/hhs-comments/data/catalog.json","scope":"Original comment body; attachments excluded"},"forum_topics":["wifi","neurological","optical","access"],"primary_topic":"wifi","forum_title":"The commenter reports illness around routers and cordless phones, improvement with wired connections, and…"}