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Aber, ein neuer Tag, ein neues Glück! Gestern ist vergessen. Heute ging ein anderer, kurzer und prägnanter Text an Ophra.

An Monique vielen herzlichen Dank für diese großartige Aktion.

Die Welt muss es wissen, muss es akzeptieren und muss sich klar sein, dass man endlich vernünftig darauf zu reagieren hat. Sonst ist klar: Die Welt ist das Irrenhaus – nicht wir …

Dear Oprah,

I am XXXXXX from Germany and want to tell you my MCS Story:

Since I am a baby I suffer from Chemical Sensitivity and many Food Allergies. When I was around twenty, I found out that I can’t tolerate most medications and had several anaphylactic shock reactions. I moved to a new apartment with wool carpet. What I didn’t know was that the carpet was treated with pesticides against bugs. Life threatening collapses are part of my daily life since that time. It took very long until I found out that the name of the disease I have is MCS.

For me it should take until 2004 – a friend of mine explained me that wool carpet is treated with pesticides. 30 years I went to one and the same allergologist. She believed me and tried to help but when I came and told her “I guess I collapse from pesticides in wool stuff”, she said: “Something like this doesn’t exist!!!”

Some later I found out that my illness is called MCS. Then the next struggle started. It took me months until I found an environmental physician. And still this doctor wasn’t able to diagnose my MCS! I did some detoxification therapy I had to pay by myself.

In my daily life I have to suffer from many hardship’s the society gives to me. Nearly everybody thinks MCS is only something in my head. But I am here and I can’t participate to normal life and even worse – sometimes I get attacked from others. My intolerances in daily life are extreme since I can’t tolerate medications and scented products, also because I can eat only a few foods. I can’t stay around people wearing wool clothes since most of this wool is treated with the same pesticides I got so sick from. Can you imagine how hard winters here in cold Germany are for me? The collapses are severe, they leave me paralyzed and all my organs shut down too beside the ears. I always pray that nobody calls the ambulance since emergency doctors would give me some kind of shoots and this would be my end.

It would be wonderful if you could make MCS and all what it means a topic in your show. You can be sure that people from all over the world would be more than thankful and many, many would find out the name of their disease which they suffer from since years or some since decades.

Sincerely and my best wishes for you,

Dear Oprah,

My name is Silvia Mueller, I am from Germany and chemically sensitive since 18 years because of pesticide exposures at my workplace without my knowledge. I founded CSN – Chemical Sensitivity Network csn-deutschland.de an organisation for people with chemical sensitivity and chemical injury. We have members from all over the world and the number of members is rising. These people get no help, no adequate medical assistance, nor are there special living spaces. Because of all this each year people with MCS commit suicide.

We are asking you for help, please speak about MCS in your show, help us to rise awareness about this avoidable disease from which around 12-30% of the population is affected. If the people get aware about MCS they can be able to change their habits, avoid dangerous chamical exposures and have a good chance not to get chemically sensitive. If you have MCS you need to live like in a prison, have nearly no social contacts anymore and your best friend is your air purifier. We, the people with MCS, don’t ask for Millions of Dollars, we only ask for acceptance in the society and the same help all other people with handicaps get.

Best regards from Germany,
Silvia K. Mueller

Uwe Wald

Siegfried Fischer

Vielen Dank Monique für die super Aktion,

Zebolon

habe nun dort mitgemacht. Es war sehr schwierig, da ich die bis ca. 2000 Zeichen nicht gezählt habe und mußte ganz schön kürzen und das ein paar mal. Die Idee finde ich prima.

Viele Grüsse von

Galaxie!

Ich, 43 Jahre, habe MCS = Multiple Chemical Sensitivity und mein Sohn, 6 Jahre, auch. Wir benoetigen Wohnraum, Lebensraum, Lebensrechte, Anerkennung, Schutz und eine Zukunft, geeignete Schulen, Ausbildung und Arbeitsplatz. Wir wollen auch leben, lachen, Glueck, doch wir muesen in Zwangsisolation leben, oft verzichten und leben in fuerchterlicher Armut.

Wir brauchen Hilfe und ein Haus in Alleinlage.

So wie uns, geht es vielen in Deutschland. Es gibt viele MCS-erkrankte Kinder. Ich sehe viele kranke Kinder und Jugendliche, die aber keine Diagnose bekommen, geschweige denn eine Therapie, zum einen weil es nur noch wenige echte Umweltmediziner gibt, zum anderen weil die Bevoelkerung nicht aufgeklaert wird. Die Erkrankten laufen von Arzt zu Arzt und wissen nicht was sie haben und vergiften sich immer weiter. MCS wird nicht publiziert. MCS ist nicht im Gespraech.

Mein Appell an Sie: Machen Sie MCS und andere Umwelterkrankungen international bekannt. MCS existiert. MCS kann jeden treffen. MCS-Erkrankte benoetigen staatliche Hilfe.
Ich danke Ihnen

Vielen Dank an Monique van den Broek für diese Aktion!