THERE IS NOTHING LIKE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE TO BRING HOME THE MESSAGE THAT MOLD WILL HURT YOU.. It is time to post another true life experience story from another who has been injured by mold.. Again I would like to remind you that if anything sounds familiar to you in this story,,, you might want to consider mold as a possible cause and seek some help.
I've been sick and misdiagnosed for 9 years. Conventional Dr's told me I was depressed, that I was just tired and ill from having 4 children, that it was allergies. The last one told me I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and there was nothing I could do except take anti-depressants and excercise. A friend of mind told me about a place in Atlanta. After spending a few grand there and not getting any better, the Dr. had enough sense to look at me and tell me "there's something in your enviornment doing this to you." He wanted me to go see an ENT in Atlanta. I laughed it off. Been there, done that. Even went to the University of Birmingham as a test subject with the immunology department. I was part of a study to try to find out what was wrong with me. I couldn't get the thought of this ENT out of my mind. So, we made an appt. and went. As soon as I walked into the room, the ENT reacted to me and left the room. He came back with an oxygen mask on. I couldn't believe my eyes. He said we had mold spores on us and we were making him sick. This ENT Dr. is highly respected and has found the connection between chronic sinusitis and fungal exposure. He has studied it for decades and has written research papers and taught other Dr's on how to treat. We tested our house and immediately found the problem. Our house was only SIX years old! Nice subdivision. NO visible mold, but boy was it there. We have evidence upon evidence of water intrustion. I also tested positive for mold mycotoxins via Real Time Labs. I have a genotype that will not allow me to expel of mold toxins. We paid to have our house remediated, but it failed...as the root problem was not addressed. Misplaced weep holes in the brick and the land was graded wrong...so every time it rained...water was seeping in under the slab and bottoms of the walls. I had wondered why a new baseboard all the sudden separated from my girl's wall. Just so happened a ground level weep hole was on the exterior of that wall. We couldn't sue our builder. Alabama is a "Buyer Beware" state. We sent our builder our inspector's report but he wrote back saying it was not his problem. We lost our home and all of our belongings. We have 4 children. During the time we lived in that house, their symptoms ranged from chronic bronchitis, headaches, unexplained stomach pains, speech delay, hyper activity, mood changes, hormone damage, etc. Many of those symptoms cleared when we left that house. As for me, I am the sickest one in our family. When we left that house, I got worse instead of better. Why? Because hypersensitivity set in and I can now pick up the tiniest bits of mold and when that happens, an inflammatory response gets set off in me and I get very ill. Our way of life has changed. We have to basically seclude ourselves b/c mold is everywhere here. It's in our schools, businesses, churches and no one is doing anything about it because they don't believe mold can do this to a person. |