So I finally figured out why I'm getting sick all the time and why I had a long lasting cold the last time I lived where I'm living now. There's black mold in my basement. Luckily, I live in the clean half, but it's growing in the laundry room on the washing machine and in the sink that the machine drains into.
I know I can usually trust my immune system because after a foot surgery I had when I was 20, I was cooped up in a house where both my mom and my sister had an awful bout of the flu. I stayed healthy during and after the exposure. Since I started high school, I rarely caught anything more than a small cold or allergy related issues. The one time I had serious symptoms, it turned out to be a ruptured cyst, which is why I was surprised that I caught 2 colds in the last 2 months.
Black mold exposure causes cold like symptoms as well as headaches and chronic fatigue. Specifically, it affects your mucus membranes, so your eyes might feel irritated as well. Luckily, I did some research and there are ways to clear it out of your system without looking for prescriptions. I've already had 3 or 4 of them yesterday. Raw garlic and oregano oil are potent anti-fungals but they can also kill bacteria. Chlorophyll was also on the list. They recommend cutting sugar out of your diet and to drink herbal tea and bone broth. To get rid of it around the house, you can use white vinegar or hydrogen peroxide and of course follow that up by adding a dehumidifier to the affected room.
In other news, the last few days have been amazing. Having the sun out and seeing the beautiful blue sky, I was feeling rather euphoric that the rain stopped for more than 10 hours. The last couple weeks in May felt like April and it started feeling like the sun was a very occasional visitor. Having always lived in a state where it rains once a week or once every two weeks, it was depressing to feel like I was living in Seattle, Washington. I've been able to bike to work since the sun came out; I don't like risking splashing muddy water onto my pant legs while biking through the inevitable puddles. I might have even gotten a bit of a tan yesterday which is always pleasing since I'm, practically speaking, nearly as pale as Snow White and am so prone to sunburn I can get one while watching half a football game.
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