Ever hear of an Environmental Sensitive?

A renter called me with an unusual request; she wants me to change out the #6 breaker in the electrical panel box.

According to her, she had what seemed like a heart attack while in bed Tuesday night. She did what any normal person would do in that situation, she called a friend of hers who, again according to her, is an “Environmental Sensitive”, to come over in the morning and go through the house with her to find the cause of her distress. Between them they went through the entire house and determined that the culprit was the #6 breaker and that is had a minor defect that caused it to emit electrical impulses that triggered the heart attack like symptoms.

I am not sure why it has chosen now, 14 months into her lease, to do whatever it is that it is doing. It looks like one of the original breakers so has been doing its job for the last 27 years without incident. This breaker controls the outlets in the kitchen, not the bedroom, and is located in the electrical panel on the exterior of the home on a wall that is not the bedroom wall and is, in fact two rooms away from her bedroom. But all that aside she is adamant that this breaker is the cause of her near death experience.

She is a good tenant, takes care of the place, doesn’t throw parties irritating the neighbors and pays her rent in a timely fashion so I will change the offending breaker out for her but still…...

I have looked up what an Environmental Sensitive is (actually, all I could find was on Environmental Sensitivities so I had to interpolate) and so am wiser now than I was 24 hours ago. I was just wondering if anyone out there is one, or has known one, or dealt with one, and can relate to what this woman is going through?