Stress, especially constant stress, can wipe out your immune system and make you VERY susceptible to pretty much everything you come into contact with (on kids, door handles, shopping carts, etc). Keep it up and you can end up with cancer and heart disease and autoimmune disorders, and other crap. Not trying to scare you and I KNOW this situation isn't your fault. I just hope you and Steve can work out a plan to get out (even if it's a 3-month or 6-month plan or whatever, make a plan).
There's also a MUCH higher incidence of immune problems when people live in basements. Even in my own experience, I lived in a basement only one time in my life (and refused to after that), I was sick the entire year I was there.
And yeah, your diet definitely has a lot to do with it. Of course, you're kind of in a rock & a hard place. :/
I wish I had some magic wand I could use to take all your sick and stress and bad stuff away. :( I can give you a long-distance/internet hug though! *big monster hugs*
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Date: 2008-10-30 07:08 pm (UTC)There's also a MUCH higher incidence of immune problems when people live in basements. Even in my own experience, I lived in a basement only one time in my life (and refused to after that), I was sick the entire year I was there.
And yeah, your diet definitely has a lot to do with it. Of course, you're kind of in a rock & a hard place. :/
I wish I had some magic wand I could use to take all your sick and stress and bad stuff away. :(
I can give you a long-distance/internet hug though! *big monster hugs*