A British woman cannot use an electric kettle, keeps her washing machine in a concrete outhouse and cannot have neighbours with wireless internet because she is allergic to electricity.
Janice Tunnicliffe
spends every night playing Scrabble by candlelight with her husband because she
claims to have a rare condition called electrosensitivity.
She cannot bear to be
anywhere near electromagnetic fields of any kind and, as a result, she cannot
watch television, listen to the radio or talk on a mobile phone and has been
left completely isolated from the modern world by her condition.
Mrs Tunnicliffe, 55,
was struck down with the illness after receiving chemotherapy for bowel cancer
three years ago.
Since then she has
suffered constant headaches, chest pains, nausea and tingling in her arms and
legs whenever she is near electrical devices or items that emit a signal.
Her only relief in
this time was when her village, near Mansfield
She said:
"Different things give me different feelings but it's mostly headaches and
nausea. iPhones make feel really sick within about 20 minutes of being near one
so even though I might not realise someone has one straightaway, I soon find out.
"Wifi makes me
feel like I have a clamp at the back of my head which is squeezing the life out
of me. It's completely draining and a home hub can totally immobilise me - I'm
left unable to move my arms and legs."
Mrs Tunnicliffe’s
normal existence was turned upside down when in February 2008 she was admitted
to hospital with severe abdominal pains and vomiting.
After three days of
tests, it was discovered she was suffering from cancer and surgeons operated
immediately to remove a six-inch tumour from her bowel, plus 14 lymph nodes.
Fortunately, despite
the size of the tumour, her cancer had not spread, but it was decided that she
should have chemotherapy after the surgery as a precautionary measure.
But it was then that
her unusual problem started and she began to feel ill whenever she was near the
myriad electrical and wireless items in her home.
She said: “Personally,
I think there must be a link with the chemotherapy and the ES, but no one is
going to admit that.
“I used to go for long
walks every day and while I was out of the house I would be okay. But when I
came back I would start to feel unwell again very quickly and slowly I started
to put two and two together.
"After the
cancer, the doctors recommended we enjoy a nice holiday somewhere and the whole
family went to the Greek island
of Kos
"While I was
there was I was fine, but when I got home I felt ill again almost straightaway.
It wasn't until afterwards that I considered it might have been because of all
the 'electrosmog' we were experiencing at home.”
Mrs Tunnicliffe has
even had to cover her windows with a special metallic material to deflect
errant electromagnetic waves.
Graham Lamburn,
technical manager at Powerwatch, an independent organisation which promotes
safer environments, said so far the medical profession has been slow to recognise
electrosensitivity as an illness as its causes are as yet unknown.
The Council of Europe
Committee on Monday called for a dramatic reduction in exposure to phones and
other wireless devices.
Source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8520405/Meet-the-woman-allergic-to-electricity.html
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