Abbreviations - PIR

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Barb & Members,

Please do not even think for one moment that you are stupid, because

you don't understand something. As long as I've been on this board

there are times when new terms and/or abbreviation show up that I

don't understand or know. Please do not be afraid to ask. I

apologize that I have not made a file of abbreviations and hopefully

in the near future I will find the time to do it. I am constantly

being pulled in many different directions and if someone would like

to help with this, as far as compiling this information to make

things easier I will be more than happy to add it to our files.

I am reposting Carl's post on the terminology and impact of PIR.

KC

Personal Impact Rating (PIR).

PIR is a 6 point scale based on the overall impact exposures have on

your life, irrespective of what causes the problems, what type of

problems or by how much exposure.

PIR 1 - No impact. There are no absolutes but some people insist

nothing affects them. The only time that is true is when you are

dead.

PIR 2 - They recognize impact and a need to do something but they are

easily distracted. Besides, they can ignore it and it will go away.

And that what all of us should do, they insist, just ignore it. An

example for me was tooth after a filling was replaced. The gum was

sore and the tooth reacted to cold. I'd start to call the dentist but

the phone would ring or I had an appointment or I had to go out of

town. I just didn't get around to it.

PIR 3 - It can't wait, you must do something now. But it is easily

remedied and you can (fairly) quickly get back to a routine. The

routine may have changed - get rid of the mold - but you have a

routine. For my tooth, it came and went for two weeks before it got

bad enough to stop my life and I had take care of it. All it needed

was a bite adjustment and I'm back to my routine. Slight

interruption.

PIR 4 - You have no routine because you react to so many exposure

sources so strongly that you are almost always sick, recovering from

exposures or avoiding locations that have made you ill in the past.

You experience many complaints, many doctors, many diagnosis and

many treatment failures. The impact is disruptive and life altering.

The remedy is life altering. Many in this group are at this level.

PIR 5 - Disability. You are too sick to work or take care of family

let alone yourself. Financial ruin is the rule. A number on this

group are a 5.

PIR 6 - The dispossessed. They are the individuals - three or four

hundred estimated - who can get slight relief only by isolating

themselves from as many exposures as possible. They live outside in

tents or porcelan trailors, sometimes moving to high desert regions.

I've had 9 clients reach this point in the past 19 years. Some of you

have experienced this level.

I will now add that once a 3 then always at least a 3 but it could

advance to a 4, 5 or even 6 if you don't reduce exposures and your

body weakens sufficiently. Not everyone will but there is that

potential. But a 3 can live as a 2, at least most of the time. Also,

once a 6 always a 6. But through self awareness, learning a few

management practices and with increased diligence you don't have to

LIVE as a 6. Even without a cure you might be able to reduce the

" impact " to a 5 or 4 or 3 with management. Yes, CSM and other

treatments can help tremendously. But they aren't a cure for exposure

anymore than there is a cure for preventing broken bones in a car

crash.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC