The past year has seen us do an immense amount of healing and go through lots of transitions. We ended 2020 with an uptick of mystery toxin blowing in with the storms at the ranch we were camping on, and we left mid Jan after our tent got contaminated. That was our transition into hotels,…
There’s lots to be thankful for despite the storms
We’ve been at the rental house a little over a month now. Sorry that I’m not an awesome updater of the blog. It’s been a busier time getting settled, figuring out a schedule that works, remodeling, and all the storms. I’ll preface the remodeling section with don’t watch a bunch of HGTV, it makes you…
Good news
We got all the mishaps from the farm sitting incidents taken care of: Chester, Savy, and the house all smell fine now. The rugs I think will even be salvageable. Lana takes the rugs to the car wash on occasion anyways so that’s her plan for them and then bringing them back inside. Snowy, the…
Adventures in Farm-sitting
Our Airbnb hosts had to tend to an emergency so we offered to help with the farm while they were out of town. Since they’ve been gone Chester has been sprayed by a skunk twice. The first time he clearly didn’t take a direct hit, the second time, he did. A dish soap bath cleared…
The Transition
We looked for short term rentals and were struggling to find that so we decided to try an Airbnb. We’ve been there for a week now and it’s going well. Their house is in great outdoor air, but would likely not be a mold avoiders first choice bc they’d get caught up in the indoor…
Next steps
We’ve exceeded our benchmark to move out of hotels. We kept our room for 5 weeks and left bc of a combination of factors, not because the room went bad. The town we were staying is goes above tolerance when there are storms and we ended up going to the city yesterday to check out…
The biggest win of mold avoidance!
I’ve been struggling with chronic illness for most of my life, and have known mold to be the cause for the part few years. I knew it was part of my story before, but not the root issue. I thought it was the autoimmunity and the chronic Lyme, and by addressing those parts of the…
Back to our first hotel home
Shortly after my last update, we decided to leave our hotel in MS bc they couldn’t properly maintain their hot tub. It never had a chemical smell to it at all though I was told they refilled the water daily and they put in a chlorine tablet. After we both got slammed by toxins one…
A long needed update
I have no great reason to have not updated you guys sooner, but here I am sitting in the hot tub writing an update. We have moved around FL trying to find something to work, but didn’t succeed. I really wanted to be able to go back to the hotel we like to stay at…
Ah…. Back in FL!
We drove for 3 days and arrived back in FL Sunday night. The rain pattern has changed so FL is a go! Yay! We’re back at our home hotel again and enjoying being with our hotel family again. Today we went up to the fifth floor and sang happy birthday to Mona. We have such…