Why You Should Choose Me to Write About Life with Chronic Conditions

(This post is basically a project "pitch" to a funder who demanded both a document and a link, but if anyone else wants to fund a similar project, why not? For spreading awareness of the chronic condition I've inherited, any publicity is probably good publicity. I'm not sure why the webform stipulated a video link; there is no video link for this web site or any of its members--GBP did have a cell phone that took videos once, but it died in 2012.)

I’m a celiac. What I have is not the kind of “gluten intolerance” that’s breaking out all over, these days, but the real thing found almost exclusively in certain Irish families.

My story used to be about how all I have to do to stay healthy (since you build up fantastic strength and fortitude by being an undiagnosed celiac) is to avoid social eating.

There are also the stories of other celiacs and gluten-sensitive people I’ve been able to help, and people with different sensitivities, intolerances, and genetic quirks I’ve been able to support, at least morally.

Currently, though, my story is about how I’m being made sick again—and watching other people being made sick—by the insane use of glyphosate, a weedkiller, not only on wheat fields but directly on food as a preservative...and in the air...and in the water...(And I don't mean ill; I mean sick. Nufsed.)

Other “pesticides” and “bioengineered food” products affect other people too. I’m interested in their stories too.

From the Soros-funded “protest” websites? This week, a whimper about “disordered eating” as an emotional problem. The writer’s friend has confirmed Hashimoto’s Disease but the writer wants to construe her food avoidance as an emotional problem, rather than an unguided experience that although she can’t predict why (since pesticide residues aren’t on the labels of food!) some foods make her sicker—which is something Hashimoto’s Disease patients often do observe. I cry foul. Eating things that make you sick, feeling sick for no obvious reason, causes some kinds of emotional problems. It is not primarily an emotional problem.

I’m a motivated activist about this. I’ve not been doing travel and interview articles because I’ve not been paid to do them. I can do them--just add money.