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Some unedited memories of my accidental mold sabbatical

I was sharing with a friend what my initial accidental sabbatical was like. This friend is a 20 year best friend of mine, and right now he is in the midst of his sabbatical.
This is really unedited and not proof read, but it is kind of a summary. I also tell the story of my accidental sabbatical in a YouTube video.
It is funny that some of the other videos on my channel have over 100,000 views, but this really important one only has 3,000 views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bUFrFMGdNs

“its interesting, I felt worse on my accidental sabatacal than I did at home, I think. That trip to san diego for ozone. man, I was so sick. But there were some variables, like, I unknowingly went to MT in san diego. Looking back now, it is super obvious that I was having MT symptoms in san diego, though i didn’t know it at the time.I also was so desperate for any improvement that I was taking tons and tons of antibiotics. I remember calling a bunch of doctors from san diego and begging them to save my life.I also had massive herxing from the ten pass ozone, it was like deep brain herxing that would cause me to be crying for hours, grieving, missing my kids. I mean 20% of it was real emotion, the rest was just wacky herxing.and then after that I flew to monterey to be with the family, and I was still SO sick… and of course monterey has heavy MT. Gosh, I never was OUT of MT. And I started bee venom therapy for Lyme in monterey (man, that is the BEST therapy you can possibly do if you have lyme… by far). So that trip to monterey was also kind of destitute. But by that point I was having some signs that I was unmasking. I think the ozone unmasked me like 10x more than a normal sabatacal. Leila picked me up from the monterey airport, and I was reacting to her van SO badly. I swore someone poisoned the van while I was gone, but I had only been gone 10 days and it didn’t seem logical that that could have happened. Eventually I felt like I pinpointed the badness to cora’s car seat, and I was so adamant to get rid of it that I actually threw it out the window! LOL (Of course not while she was in it). and bought a new car seat at 11pm. But I wouldn’t say I was reacting to monterey toxins so much, more the specific toxins from tahoe that leila had brought down.And then as we were drving home, I remember dipping into the tahoe basin in meyers and feeling strangely “weird.” Actually, felt it in the mountain pass on the way, on Echo. And then when we got home, I walked in my house and said “something is weird in here.” Leila now tells me that I had said this a bunch before, after other trips (not sabatacals). And so i guess that wasn’t super conclusive either.Of course, by the time I got in my bed later that night, THAT is when the sabatacal was super conclusive. It was raining, and I think all the mold in the house was going NUTS. I began to like almost shudder in bed. It was so bad that I went and slept in a corner of another bedroom that I usually never went in, for relief. That didn’t work and so I went out to the car. I literally was only in the house for about 2 hours.And then after that, the house was totally intolerable to me. I never really went in again, for more than like 15 min. And I compulsively and desperately bought like 10 air purifiers, all different kinds of them. But just like mold avoiders said would happen, after only running the air purifiers for like 15 min, they became so concentrated with mold that they themselves became the worst object in the room. cleaning out my home office, which no one else but me could do, was such a nightmare. Maybe the very worst object was my computer which I sprayed out with spray air to try to de-mold, and that slammed me so bad.Staying at my parents house, every time Leila would bring objects from our house over, they would destroy me.but overall by that point, at my parents house, I was already going a little better and could tell that something major had happened. It actually kind of reminded me of the time I went to Italy 20 years ago for an experimental Lyme treatment, and little did I know at the time, it was like a sabatacal, and I actually came home from Italy and SLEPT AT MY PARENTS HOUSE FOR 6 MONTHS. I don’t know if I ever told you about that. That moldy house I was in back then was a different house, but apparently my body had become sensitized to it as well. I never could explain to myself why I wanted to sleep at my parents house for SIX MONTHS, and I never knew about mold or sabatacals. And by the way, I don’t really give a shit if I am spelling sabatacals wrong, the word drives me crazy and I can’t type it.So I guess in both of those “accidental ” sabbatcals, there WAS some conclusive evidence, but it would have required a greater awareness in order to identify. Man, if I had figured it out 20 years ago I would be in such a different boat.But anyway, maybe this story will help you figure out your own situation. I also tell this story on my youtube channel.So perhaps you will have some inconclusive results while at the hotel, etc., but maybe when you get HOME, you’ll have something more dramatic happen.”

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