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Bene Barrymore, 77, a talented artist and poet feels that she just "cannot go on" if she has to spend another pesticide spraying season living in her car due to her extreme sensitivity.  "I just can't go through this again", she lamented. 

Environmental illness is a pervasive problem in our world today. Sufferers of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) react to the ever increasing chemicals in our environment - they may have an intolerance to perfume, fertilizer, pesticides, car fumes, plastics, paint, glue and the many other manufactured products that are widely used in our society today. Reactions range from headaches, itchy eyes, tingling tongue, dizziness, lethargy, intolerance to foods, asthma, breathing difficulties, fainting, anaphylactic shock or even death. 

Barrymore, who has MCS, has no other option than to run when the landscaping companies call her in order to alert her that they are about to spray.  If she remains her skin will burn, her eyes will blur and water, her breathing will become severely congested and labored and soon she will be nearly incapable of coherent thought.  "I was on the phone sobbing.  I couldn't even find the place where I was to sign a form."  Her heart will beat so rapidly that she fears for her life if exposed.  Living on a fixed income, she ends up spending a chunk of it on storage for her belongings should they become tainted while she is gone.