generalizations and exceptions

I'm used to dire-looking circumstances turning into months or years of horror, so I'm pleased to report that today I learned that some EIs can, with a little help, pull themselves out of some fairly dire-looking circumstances in just a matter of days. This time it took a reasonably experienced EI and people with a very similar injury to provide support, but the situation turned around nicely, and we made a friend. And I will add that despite the fact that my very best friends in the world right now are almost exactly the same age as my parents, it's nice to have some friends your own age.

Here's a gross generalization, as long as I'm thinking about it: almost all of the EIs I know who are my age got in trouble with mold, and most of them are men. I know a lot more people who are older than I, and of that mostly-female crowd, only one or two of them got sick from mold. They seem to be a pesticide/building materials/other stuff group.