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Reports a diagnosis of electromagnetic hypersensitivity and escalating symptoms around computers, phones, televisions and electrical systems. Describes lost career opportunities, repeated collapses and difficulty avoiding exposure in a nursing home, and calls for retaining landlines and limiting stronger wireless infrastructure.
- Electromagnetic sensitivity: “diagnosed me with what is being called electromagnetic hypersensitivities.”
- Housing, work & access barriers: “wasn't able to do the work with a combination of multiple physical disabilities”
- Neurological symptoms & sleep: “physical symptoms including dizziness, pain in my skull, a sense of passing out”
- Power lines, wiring & solar: “electricity leaking through walls of this old nursing home”
- Li-Fi, fiber & alternatives: “I'm also concerned that there's talk about ending landlines in the united states.”
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I began developing physical symptoms including dizziness, pain in my skull, a sense of passing out, after taking advanced courses at the University of minnesota. I was supposed to be a computer software trainer. But the more I was exposed to high-end computers as they got stronger and stronger, the more my body started reacting. I developed in ovarian cyst for the first time after using a keyboard on my lap because of physical disabilities I couldn't sit up right and I had to sit sideways..... My first experience with a wireless mouse that worked on several gigabytes versus a wired mouse that I'd used for several years, my first experience with a wireless mouse is that it actually caused scarring on the right upper part of my arm. I stopped using it. Eventually with help from a friend and assistance from techies in the disabled community, we were able to put together a computer system that I was able to sit several feet back from. Using a wired mouse. But this was just the beginning of increasing problems. Remember, I was supposed to be a computer software trainer and I ended up with a bachelor in science from the University of Minnesota but wasn't able to do the work with a combination of multiple physical disabilities increased including increasing sensitivity to the technology as it got stronger. As I found myself nearer to cell phones that were becoming prolific (I was still using a landline telephone), and were being used by people in my life, I found that I could physically feel the energy from them that felt very uncomfortable and actually painful, within 15 to 20 feet of their use. When I found myself in a nursing home at the beginning of the pandemic after I lost my apartment due to multiple disabilities and a lack of PCA help, I was inundated by technology all over the place. Large flat screen TVs in public areas that I found myself not being able to be around, I didn't put a TV in my room at all, (when I was in my apartment I still was watching a small cathode ray tube TV, 6 ft away from it)... Anyway, people had cell phones all over the damn place, laptops, large TV screens, every single patient seemed to have some kind of large TV in their rooms, and if my room was next to a person's where the flat screen TV was up against my wall, I physically felt the electricity and I couldn't sleep. Exposure to all of this technology became more and more problematic. Eventually I started actually collapsing near the nurses station where there was so much technology in use and which was right near one of the gigantic large flat screen TVs used by the public community here. I actually started collapsing. I do have a history of autoimmune and inflammation diseases for several decades, and a history of brain damage going back several decades as well. But never collapsing. I got tested for epilepsy. I do not have epilepsy. However the electricity they used in the room to do the testing was so intense, I actually collapsed outside of the room before we could even do the testing. The problem is that I had become so ultra-sensitive to a combination of radio frequencies, EMF fields, RA's, electricity leaking through walls of this old nursing home that couldn't handle high-end technology, or proliferation of cell phones, and I just became sicker and sicker. My functional medicine doctor knew that this was a real physical ailment and diagnosed me with what is being called electromagnetic hypersensitivities. She knows it is real. It was terrible when some of the staff here started believing that I was acting out emotionally by collapsing on the floor. No, my brain and nervous system and all the cells in my body were reacting to the excessive exposure to all these different kinds of energy fields that were pummeling my body. So she gave me the diagnosis. And hold the staff unequivocally that this is real. So they stop pretending this is emotional. This is a real physical ailment. Unfortunately I've been forced to use a cell phone because there are no landlines in this nursing home except for staff. Which puts me in an exceptionally dangerous situation. I'm also concerned that there's talk about ending landlines in the united states. Which I believe would be a really dangerous as more and more people are realizing that excessive cell phone technology is dangerous. We are destroying ourselves, our bodies, probably other things in nature. When I don't absolutely have to use my cell phone as I am now to dictate this, I will put my cell phone on airplane mode and turn it off. And I have become concerned about the proliferation of cell phone towers and that cell phone companies are trying to keep increasing their power. Right now I am on a 4G cellphone and I don't want it to get any stronger. You need to do something to stop this danger that is being caused to all of us. Like cigarette companies making money off of our health problems 50 years ago, you need to stop these technology companies from doing the same.
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