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Satori-5 webmaster Gordon D McHendry on a rare good day in 2000...

Hi

         Originally I had lumped my "Thank You's" and "Credits" onto the one webpage. I had thought then that this arrangement would cover my needs in those respects just fine. But as summer passed and I repeatedly found myself on the receiving end of more and more peoples kindness I soon began to realise that one webpage was never going to be up to the job of giving some kind of form to my gratitude.

         First there are all the kind people who rallied round with letters of support for my DLA Benefit Appeal. I have of course already thanked each and every one personally, either face to face if this was possible, or by letter or email if it wasn't. Each one of their supporting letters will be posted online in the appropraite Satori-5 correspondence supplement [edited of course to preserve each writers privacy] in due course as a basic part of my continuing attempt to put my "unbelievable" ME/MCS/HRS story into the public domain before it puts me in the ground. Meantime, however, I would just like to acknowledge and thank again here, as a group, all those kind and supporting people. Your help did make a difference. Thank you all.

         Then there are all the people who offered support, and/or advice, or just a friendly ear, by email or telephone [and some do so still]. All very much appreciated - and I want to acknowledge that here also. Additionally, I suddenly began to experience a new form of unexpected kindness. Some people started sending me helpful things as gifts. At that point I knew for sure to that to do the whole "Thank You's" and "Credits" webpages properly then I would have to split them into two separate webpages - so that is what I have done.

         With winter almost upon me again as I write [October 2003] and I just don't have the time, the health, or the energy now to mention everyone individually in the "Thank You's" that follow below. I really do wish I could - but I just can't. However, I will do my very best to mention as many of you kind and helpful people as possilbe - as and when I can. There is just so much needing do be done in Satori-5 now, on so many fronts, and just so little time, health, and energy resources with which to do it. If I haven't managed to mention you here - then please forgive me.

My sincerest thanks to everyone - for everything.

The Spirit in me honours the Spirit in you

Namaste

Yours Sincerely

Gordon D McHendry


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Crystal

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     The top-slot here has to go to my friend Crystal Green for hosting a Satori-5 "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity [MCS]" page, absolutely free of charge, on her alternative health/spiritual healing website "The Healing Network". To her great credit Crystal runs this non-profit site as a community service and it is well worth a visit.

You can check out this generous site for yourself at:

Crystal Green - of The Healing Network website.

www.healingnetwork.co.uk
Note: See also entry on the alternative health section of the Web-Links webpage

     If you visit with Crystal remember to pop into her Guest-Book and say hello before you leave as she is a lovely lady and really does enjoy hearing from everyone who drops in.



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Jan

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     Another huge thank-you to my dear friend Jan Ogilvie - another lovely lady - for loads of proof reading throughout Satori-5. Typo's, spelling mistakes, bad grammar - sooner or later she catches them all. A big "Ta" lass!

     As a fully qualified and experienced Reiki Master and Massage Therapist Jan is very much involved in the alternative health field and, having personally experienced her skills in both these departments, I haven't the slightest hesitation in recommending her to you.

You can visit Jan's website by clicking on the following link:

Jan Ogilvie - of the Freedom For You website.

www.jangilvie.co.uk
Note: See also entry on the alternative health section of the Web-Links webpage

     Caring, gentle, and skilled in her crafts, you'd be doing your sense of wellbeing a favour - and giving yourself a big treat at the same time! Jan can also be contacted via the Reiki page of Crystal's website "The Healing Network" [above].



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     This acknowledgement is for all those kind people who have taken that little extra bit of time and trouble to share their thoughts in the Satori-5 Guest Book. To each and every one of you please know that every single entry is deeply valued and that it makes my day to discover them.

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     When struggling under very difficult circumstances and against disabling levels of chronic illness those guest book entries that offer empathy, or support, or encouragement - really do make a big difference.

     It is as if the concern or appreciation expressed in them somehow has the power to transcend space and time and actually make the going-on easier for me. An extra-special "thank you" therefore to these exceptional guest book entry authors. May the warmth of your humanity return to you again many-fold whenever you find yourself in those inevitable darker times that visit us all at some time or another.



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Woody

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     A few months ago I started receiving a series of very kind and helpful emails from another MCS sufferer  [based in London I think]  that were full of very resourceful advice on how to survive with MCS in sub-zero temperatures. This person name was Woody and, having lived in Canada for many years surviving in temperatures as low as 50 degrees below zero, his advice had all the valuable practicality that comes naturally from hard personal experience.

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     Unfortunately for me while Woody's ideas for using sleeping bags and multiple layers of clothing etc were indeed excellent for surviving and sleeping in sub-zero temperatures they were simply not viable for the degree of MCS severity from which I suffer. I have long given up on trying to find a sleeping bag, even of the so called "organic" variety, that does not make me rapidly and seriously ill due to either the flame retardant chemicals used  [including the natural one - Borax]  and/or some other kind of chemical added at some stage or other during the manufacturing process. Same problem now with clothing - especially with multiple layers.

     What I particularly appreciated with Woody was his repeated determined efforts to help sort me out with some kind of solution - despite often being quite ill himself. We never, in the end, found a 'solution' - but God bless you mate for trying.



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Theresa

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     This gift, the book "Breaking Out of Environmental Illness"  [illustrated below,]  came as a welcome and pleasant surprise from Theresa Dunford, wife of the writer Barry Dunford. Thanks again Theresa both for the book, which will help with my ongoing research, and your prayers.

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     To Satori-5 visitors: Should you feel that you may wish to purchase a copy of this book for yourself, or for someone you know that suffers from ME/CFS, Allergies, or Multiple Chemical Sensitivity [MCS, TILT, CI], here are the full publisher details:

"Breaking Out of Environmental Illness"
By Robert Sampson M.D. & Patricia Hughes B.S.N.
Bear & Company Publishing
Sante Fe
New Mexico
ISBN: 1-879181-41-x

     Finally, in closing I would just like to mention that Theresa's husband Barry has written a book entitled: "The Holy Land of Scotland". Full details about this book can be obtained directly from their own very interesting website called:  Sacred Connections . Both are well worth the checking out.



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Audrey

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     Big thanks here to Audrey Adcock of the North Devon and Mid Devon M.E. Support Groups for sending me a copy of the excellent A4 booklet: "What Is ME? What Is CFS? - Information for Clinicians and Lawyers" by E.P. Marshall, M. Williams, and M. Hooper. Printed in December 2001.

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Thanks again Audrey - I owe you one.



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Cassandra & Chris

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I know them only as Cassandra and Chris.

Cassandra and Chris

     This grateful entry is in acknowledgement of a rather exceptional event. Having discovered Satori-5, and having learned in it of my temptingly "unbelievable" predicament, an MCS sufferer and her partner - both living in America - carefully packaged up a box of synthetic-chemical free clothing and shipped it across the big pond to me here, in sunny Scotland - as a gift - given in the hope of relieving my severe MCS difficulties.


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     Just look at the degree of care taken in the packaging of this gift. Their concern was to avoid any kind of chemical contamination en-route and boy it would have to have been some kind of ninja-chemical to have got past that lot :) Needless to say - none did. Outstanding on every level.

     Simply saying "Thank You" here, however sincerely, seems awfully inadequate. Not just for the surface comforts that your sweatshirts and t-shirts and warm woolen socks will undoubtedly give me this coming cold winter - but also for a deeper, interior 'warming' of my spirit, and a 'warming' of my sense of hope that had itself grown rather cold these past 10 months or so in the sheer bleakness of my prospects.
Gordon: In cosy gift sweatshirt - Nov 2003.
     Cassandra and Chris - the caring and generosity of your hearts has reached across an ocean to me and I will never forget it. God bless you both. The sweater I am wearing in the photo above is your chemical-free one - and it fits a treat :-)



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Puma

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     I am in the process of trying to move my whole computing life, particularly my website development of Satori-5, away from Windows and its draconian and covert shenanigans - to Linux the free "open-source" [nothing hidden] alternative.

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     Having tried several flavours of Linux I opted for the extremely attractive Mandrake 9.1. After gleefully fomatting Windows XP to death on my notebook [God - that felt soooo good] I installed Linux-Mandrake and hit a problem or two getting up and running - and mouse problems afterward [particularly the notebook mouse-pad]. Enter the ever helpful Linux community.

     This took the excellently helpful form of two guys called "nil" and "arvindt" from the "Linux Forum". Great people. Great place. They stuck right with me until the problems were sorted [thanks again guys]. So, if you ever have any Linux problems - just head right over there:

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Cheers Puma!


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Rolf

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      The gentleman in the photograph below is Rolf Gordon. He is the owner of the Dulwich Health Website. Several months ago he was a complete stranger to me until I received an exceptionally kind letter from him via a dear lady friend who had mentioned me and my ME/MCS illness to him. In his letter Mr Gordon breifly explained that he believed that geopathic stress had played a large part in my getting ill - and was still doing so! Then he made me a rather bold and very generous offer; he offered, if I was willing, to try and get me better "at no cost" to me!

Rolf Gordon: Click picture to visit Rolf's personal website.
      Mr Gordon went on in his letter to tell me of a small list of products he would like to send me [at no cost at all to me remember] some of which are photographed below. I read the list with surprise as it seemed to me, even then, that the total cost of the goods he was describing to me was rather substantial. I soon confirmed that this was in fact the case by visiting his informative and very interesting website - link below. In truth I really was taken aback by this very kind and caring act of unsolicited generosity.

Oxytech Product: Click picture for more details.     RadiTech Product: Click picture for more details.     Are You Sleeping In A Safe Place - by Rolf Gordon: Click picture for more details.

      I wrote back to Mr Gordon expressing my appreciation of his uncommonly kind offer and shared with him my own views on the various possible causes of ME and MCS. I ended the letter by gratefully accepting his offer of help and, after the Raditech device had went missing for a while in the hands of the carriers, the goods duly arrived on my expectant doorstep.

      Immediately I was struck by the sheer physical presence of the Raditech unit. I had expected something smallish - perhaps about the size of a standard electrical extention of the strip-socket variety. Boy, was I wide of the mark on that one! In fact the Raditech device was much larger and much heavier than expected. Mr Gordon had again surprised me by sending me the largest, most powerful, and most expensive Raditech device from the range of units available! And I was gobsmacked by this! Incidently, all the images in this Thank-You entry are clickable web-links to allow you the easy opportunity of persuing futher information.

      So, I eagerly began using the products as advised and found them to be a definite help - particularly the Oxytech and Raditech. Then, just as the Oxytech supplement ran out, Mr Gordon phoned me to see how I was doing and I had the pleasure of enjoying a substantial conversation with him. Apart from his obvious generosity I found Mr Gordon to be a warm and very caring person. He not only arranged for a further supply of Oxytech to be sent out to me but added two other products in as well that he though would also help: Pharma Nord's "Bio-Culture" and "Bio-Qinon Q10" - all of which subsequently arrived promptly at my doorstep!

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      I continue to be gobsmacked by Mr Gordon's kindness and generosity and hope that I have not embarrassed him in any way by creating this public thank-you entry. It was important to me that I do this as a more concrete expression of my gratitude than simply saying it in writing or over the telephone - although I did do those as well :-)  And of course thank you too Jan!



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