Please consider being a friend, even to someone you don't know

This past Saturday, my husband drove me into town.  It was mid afternoon and high on my list of when to "never leave the house because there are too many people out and about". 

He parked 9 spaces up from the front of the Walmart, for the first time since I have known him.  We
ALWAYS park WAY OUT so there aren't too many vehicles parked close by. 

I waited in the truck because I knew it wouldn't be healthy to walk into the store during the afternoon rush.  I keep an eye on everything going on around me so I can grab my mask if someone gets too close.  He left the windows down as it was nice out and went into the store.  The thought crossed my mind to move the truck further out, but then again, how would he find it when he came back out, right??

I was good until just before my husband came back.  I was wafted by a horrible perfume... looked up and out the windows to pin point the culprit.  There, three cars up from ours was a lady walking around her car, she REEKED... I started to cough... my eyes started watering... my head started to pound... HOW CAN ALL THIS HAPPEN IN A MATTER OF MOMENTS!!???? 

You know, people look at me funny, disbelieve me, outright make fun of me and think I am over reacting.... JUST ONCE I would like them to live in my shoes....

That three minutes of exposure to this womans' perfume, 3 cars away in a parking lot... with the breeze blowing it directly into my vehicle left me with stinging eyes... I coughed all that afternoon, couldn't sleep well, coughed all the next day (coughing up little grey globby things from my lungs), the headache wouldn't go away and here it is, Monday and I still have it... I didn't sleep well again last night... at least I haven't been coughing again... Maybe two days was long enough??

SO, two or three minutes of exposure to a strong REEKING perfume and I am on my second and a half day of suffering for it.  I wonder what each exposure is doing to my already damaged intestinal tract and wonder how long it will be before I have to start treatment for damaged lungs or another attack of COLITIS???

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE.. consider being a FRIEND, even to someone you may not know... rather than using fragranced products or wearing FRAGRANCE when you leave your house!!

I will be posting websites and the names of products currently on the market as I find them that are FRAGRANCE FREE, UNSCENTED (truly) and SAFE for you to use.