How do you create a positive life when you can no longer work, shop, or socialize without serious consequences to your health? People with sensitivities to low-level chemical exposures must answer this question.

This book is a collection of personal stories describing the lives, losses, hopes, and coping strategies of people with MCS, an environmental illness impacting people of all ages. In narratives laced with courage, humor, and hope, they tell how they have overcome helplessness and isolation to build new and satisfying lives.

These stories dispel the myths associated with MCS, and will help others to articulate their experience to family, friends, co-workers, and health care providers.