Homesick: Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities

Streaming video - 2013

Imagine your house is making you dangerously sick. Common products like paint, carpeting, new building materials and insecticides are now your worst enemies. Your bones ache, you're feverish, you suffer from extreme headaches, disabling fatigue, mental confusion, asthma and nausea. The longer you stay in your house, the sicker you get but you can't imagine how or where you're going to find a safe home. You are one of the missions suffering from the silent epidemic of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS). ..In Homesick, Susan Abod hits the road to learn whether other people with MCS are finding safe housing. On her journey to the Southwestern United States, Susan meetins people from all walks of life. Their living quarters ra...nge from a house on stilts to tents and a teepee. ..Join Susan as she explores a little known world and discovers how peole are coping with this growing epidemic. more