Jordana
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This is the second day I've gone out on a mile walk.
I don't feel good doing it but at least I *can* do it and it also helps me sweat, which might bring down the afternoon fever a little bit.
The reason I thought it might be a good idea is because I have an intracellular bloodborne infection that affects my nerves. LLMD I talked to said that since it was an infection increased blood flow would increase drug delivery.
But TF has said that Burrascano says NO AEROBIC activity, so I'm not sure if I'm helping or hurting myself. Thoughts?
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- Walking is not aerobic, unless you're into speed walking (or a speed that is just too fast for your body at this time).
Walking is excellent at a pace that works for you - walking has always been on the "good" list. You can control the speed and that's the best part. Even strolling can be fantastic. Strolling has been sorely overlooked. If walking feels too fast, stroll, stroll, stroll. -
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Jordana
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. Great to hear, thank you.
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- When at all possible, best to walk / stroll in nature. Even in a city, try to avoid the main streets due to the vehicle exhaust, and neuro busyness / noise.
Even one street over has better air quality. You can check the air currents for your location so that you can walk on the "correct for good air" side of any major thoroughfares. DEQ and also bicycle groups / shops will know the best air pockets in any town / city.
Also consider museums. Tai Chi, Qigong also very nice. -
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Jordana
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Yes. It's a pretty, treelined area around here but I was annoyed by the landscaping army. Not much to do about it when you're already out there.
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it raises my body temperature and my feet are not blocks of ice anymore.
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- The landscaping army, ugh.
Aside from noise that can cause hearing damage, the exhaust from the typical 2-stroke leaf blower is 100x more noxious than from a car. So do all you can to avoid even being a block away from gas powered leaf blowers even for a while afterward, if possible. The exhaust can hang around a while.
Here's what might help. To determine their schedule so as to avoid while they are there for sound and lung, nose, eye safety reasons. Their schedule may not be set in stone but likely at least for a particular window of time.
During autumn such schedules can be fluid, though, with extra days added as leaves fall. Big sigh.
Of course, if private homeowners have forgotten what rakes are and instead are wielding their own obnoxious power to move leaves from one point to another a billion times that's just going to be hit or miss.
Good thing is that some private homeowners will have an ELECTRIC leaf blower and those are usually quieter and not so lung blasting in distance the debris flows - and the exhaust is just not there (Yippee!).
If they have hired a crew, it can be harder to figure out but then you could ask someone you might see around as to if they have a basic schedule.
If a public space, some kind of governmental or neighborhood body organizes their hiring. It may take a few calls, from the bottom down (neighborhood association first. If they can't help then on to the town / village Parks & Rec department.)
Another contact point: You can also find the name of the crew on the side of a truck (if their truck stays with them) or maybe on label on the back of a leaf blower.
Always take ear plugs &/ or noise cancelation headphones
and at least clean tissue you can use as a quick mouth / nose cover as you turn around from where they are. If you encounter debris flying around, be sure to do an eye drop rinse with you get home - and maybe carry some with you. -
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yes I walk in a public park and when they're mowing and blowing I've had to turn around and come home. those commercial yard machines really stir up everything.
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I complained about them even before I got sick! Especially the gas blowers, which might as well be jackhammers.
Today, walking past them I was thinking...ugh God what's in that dust, Elizabethkingia or an undiscovered prion?
Being without an immune system is really a pain.
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- Not just the dust they stir up (bird / rodent droppings, lawn chemical residue, etc.) but the gas exhaust is very toxic with heavy metals and petroleum byproducts.
And the way those small engines ineffectively burn the oil, with lack of exhaust control measures required to some degree on vehicles,
well, all that adds to the toxic nature. That exhaust and the debris they kick up can lodge deep in the sinuses and the lungs. And eyes, too.
And we wonder why lung disease among all ages is so prevalent. Vehicle exhaust has not been properly thought out but the lawn equipment really does register as 100x more toxin producing than vehicles.
Only very minor changes to that in recent years but nothing can stop the fact that debris on the surfaces gets all stirred up so it's not just the exhaust. It seems zero thought went into this machine other than for appearances of property and, yeah, time saving (but at what cost?).
I studied this a while back, went to my town's meeting - and wound up having a seizure when someone unexpectedly snapped a flash photo of a high school group that presented before I was to.
then the EMTs, housed on the same premises just appeared en masse - and their walkie-talkies triggered another seizure. I was the freak show that day - on CC TV and everything. But they were not going to listen to me even were I to have appeared as polished as a UN ambassador.
In weeks following, the city council looked over my material packet with what I thought impressive science about the emissions (and the decibels) said they all use leaf blowers in their yards and are not about to stop. So, too bad. They would not consider any changes in the city.
And the fact that the workers are so rarely wearing proper hearing protection or proper breathing filters is a concern. Regular masks cannot work for that kind of exhaust / debris floating around.
They would need very specific masks which are uncomfortable for the hours they work and likely their employers are not all that concerned with their safety and health.
School grounds, playgrounds, parking lots, these crews are all around so can be hard to avoid. Yet, when one frequents certain places, determining schedules is one action that can help for avoidance. -
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Jordana
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Keebler your story reminds me of how many birds were dead on the ground here before anybody got even the slightest bit worried about West Nile Virus.
No one listens to the canaries until they stop singing...
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- Around that time I also contacted the board of a major children's hospital that was doing a big campaign to raise money for research on childhood asthma. They had a formal and impressive public awareness campaign of what they were doing to counter other lung disease in children.
Not one word, though, about avoidance of leaf blowers. I called and spoke with one of the top people on the -- word loss . . . well, told, no they would not consider adding that detail at all and kids just needed to be vigilant about using their inhalers. Apparently, their campaign was funded by an inhaler company. -
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This might be helpful to you or not. You referred to your feet as "blocks of ice." My feet get that way sometimes but if I take Japanese Knotweed and Houttuynia, they warm up again.
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Jordana
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Sad, Keebler.
I don't have the "cold foot" problem but interesting for randibear.
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