CHAPTER 14
MOLD BLOOM
The basement suite in Mount Pleasant had mildew up the bedroom walls and a black velvet mold coating on the two foot deep window casement, when I moved in. There had been a small cannabis grow operation there obviously. But I left the mold and mildew there, believing that people were paranoid to be afraid of something natural like mold. Boy, was I naïve.
Years later, my face swelled up. My mouth was like a shiny red apple. I had a solid red rash on my hips. I went to a clinic, and the doctor gave me bottles of cough medicine with antihistamine in them. I soon learned to buy straight up antihistamine at the pharmacy. I forget how I figured out it was mold causing my symptoms, but when I did find out, I used bleach, vinegar, baking soda, borax, pine sol, detergent, and the heat of the dryer, to get my clothes clear of mold. Nothing worked. I’d spend the whole day doing laundry, and the next day, I’d open up my closet, only to be wafted with the smell of mold.
Eventually I remembered a woman I used to help with her cooking, who had fibromyalgia. I remembered that when she’d do her laundry, she’d take a bottle of ammonia with her. So I tried putting a lot of ammonia into the washing machine, and finally my clothes were truly clean! I cleaned the bedroom walls and window casement, threw out all paper products, but now my system was allergic to mold and suddenly I was allergic to pressure from bag handles on my arm, allergic to pressure on my rear end from sitting on a log in the dog park. Sometimes I didn’t know what I was reacting to, but I was on antihistamines for about a year.
Then, the strangest thing happened. I got a really bad flu bug. I suspect it was the swine flu that was going around at the time. It lasted for 5 weeks. I was bedridden for much of it. There was a pile of tissue paper on the floor, yellow from phlegm. But at the end of it, no more allergies! The flu had corrected my immune system. I stopped taking antihistamine. The bottle’s best before date came and went, and I held onto it just in case, but I never had to take another antihistamine tablet.
Before I move on from the topic of mold,…I developed a skin condition on my clitorus and its hood, called lichen sclerosis. I diagnosed it myself, and did a little research online. I figured, by putting two and two together, that mold had caused the disease, and I knew that thyme oil kills mold. I happened to have a bottle of it. I was reading the daily horoscope, and read something very unusual in mine. It said that if I’ve come up with a crazy idea, don’t do it, unless I got it between such and such a time, in which case, do it! Ordinarily, I only read horoscopes for fun, but this time, I listened to the advice.
I went home from the internet café, and opened up the bottle of white thyme oil, and proceeded to apply it to the affected area. I rubbed it in, and drooled in pain, for a couple of days, sitting in a chair. I think Calvin, an ex boyfriend, came by with some beers, and I drank some while giving myself this treatment, and he brought up the fact that I’d had a gynecological problem when we were together too.
That had been a completely different issue. I think it was from taking 1000mg of vitamin c without water, after a night drinking Calvin’s hard liquor (at his insistence). I had blood in my pee, and couldn’t feel emotion, shockingly. Then, for weeks, my hands would hurt if I didn’t drink a ton of water all the time. Also, my meatus would hurt, if I didn’t drink loads of water. The problem passed in weeks, thank goodness.
Back to the thyme oil treatment: After a couple of days staying in the chair rubbing thyme oil into my clitorus and its hood, in pain, a new layer of pink healthy skin formed, and the outer layer peeled off like a translucent plastic film. I’ve been healthy ever since. Lichen sclerosis is considered to be incurable by the medical community. I cured mine, believe it or not.