Long time MCS/ES community member Susy Mallin needs our support now.
She has managed to survive years of brutal conditions due to the severity of her MCS/ES, but all this has taken a big toll on her, and she is out of energy to keep struggling just to exist.
She needs medically safe, low toxicity housing on the Sunshine Coast area of BC where her family lives, housing that is affordable on a senior’s fixed income, a home where she isn’t exposed to chemicals, fragrances, smoke, pesticides, and other pollutants all the time. For these reasons, she can’t live in any multi-unit buildings.
You might see the issue with this need.
Housing is unaffordable for so many now, especially for people with medical needs for “healthy” housing, made with inert, low VOC materials.
People with MCS/ES don’t have a social safety net, our ability to live really does depend on community support, on you.
Please donate generously so that Susy can spend her remaining years in some relative peace.
Please be on the lookout for housing that could be suitable for her.
In a world that has otherwise made it abundantly clear that she, and others with more severe MCS/ES, aren’t really welcome, and who don’t care how much preventable suffering is imposed and endured, let’s show Susy that humans care enough to make it possible for her to exist, to be able to live out her natural life in dignity, and hopefully even be able to return to sharing her art with us.
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Read more, and donate here:
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-susys-life
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Silver jewellery made by Susy when making jewellery was still possible.
Please share widely.
Thank you for anything you can contribute.
An UPDATE on Susy’s situation (March 11th, 2023)
Seriously "Sensitive" to Pollution 
Too late for Sophia, she had no other choice, but our actions and donations can give Susy a choice…
…”She died after a frantic effort by friends, supporters and even her doctors to get her safe and affordable housing in Toronto.”
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-chemical-sensitivities-chose-medically-assisted-death-after-failed-bid-to-get-better-housing-1.5860579
There are still other’s like Susy.
Most don’t get any media attention.
(Look at the ads and maybe you can see why.)
Denise is still with us because people were generous after her story appeared in the media, so she could afford a safe enough unit in a hotel (not a real home, but it has kept her alive). To date, a medically safe enough (for MCS), affordable, wheelchair accessible home has not been made available for her.
She has also been exploring ways to get a surgery she needs in the US, as it isn’t done in Ontario, but that is obviously a very complicated and expensive option.
People can donate here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/housing-not-MAID
Woman with disabilities nears medically assisted death after futile bid for affordable housing
“She was diagnosed with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS), which triggers rashes, difficulty breathing, and blinding headaches called hemiplegic migraines that cause her temporary paralysis.
The chemicals that make her sick, said Denise, are cigarette smoke, laundry chemicals, and air fresheners. She is at risk of anaphylactic shock and so has EpiPens at all times in case she has a life-threatening allergic attack.
Denise is also a wheelchair user after a spinal cord injury six years ago and has other chronic illnesses.”
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-disabilities-nears-medically-assisted-death-after-futile-bid-for-affordable-housing-1.5882202