The ICI Experience:

20,603 Blogs Participated 23,327 Blog Posts (Results obtained using Google Blog Search) More general stats at http://BlogActionDay.org . I searched on "Blog Action Day" and the different chronic illnesses that I wrote about, also using Google Blog Search. Turns out I didn't have a whole lot of company. Here are my results. On Blog Action Day there were: 2* blog posts Fibromyalgia 2 on Chronic Illness 1* on Gulf War Syndrome 1* on Endometriosis 2* on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity 2 on Food Allergies 0 on Temporal Mandibular Joint Syndrome 1* on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 1* on Myalgic Encephelitis *including me Actually, some of my topics didn't get picked up by the search and I don't know why and I don't know enough to figure it out and correct it. The learning curve. I wish it would curve faster. It would be interesting to see if the number of people writing about environmental illness (EI) when asked to write about the environment increases as time goes ...

I'm writing about the environment today, for Blog Action Day. Years ago, coal miners took canaries down into the coal mines with them, because canaries are more sensitive to the poisonous coal gases than human beings are. When a bird started acting sick, the miners beat a hasty retreat. The canary usually died. The following is an excerpt from "Canaries In A Coal Mine", by Kevin Gregg, DC, from the Chronic Syndrome Support Association site : "Have you ever considered that those of you experiencing FMS, CFS, MCS and GWS symptoms might simply be canaries down the collective mine shaft? What if, like those canaries, you were simply the early warning system for this culture. What if your experiences were exposing mounting health risks for everyone? You are, I suspect, at the far end of a continuum that all of us are on to varying degrees. Placement on this continuum depends only on the degree a person is stressed, starved and poisoned by their life and environm...