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10 Responses to “Tell Us Your Mold Story and We Will Post It.”

1. Darlene Says:
   April 25th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

   Since becoming very ill from toxic molds being in my apartment’s HVAC system, and in the apartment builing in which I live, my goals are to try to help in getting all stories out there of the many others that also suffer from across the states. I have been very ill for a little over a year now, in which mold has made my life a horrific disaster. Quality of life, I honestly don’t know what that has meant since becoming ill. Not being able to go anywhere for lengths on time, just being able to get up in the mornings have become such a struggle. Since becoming aware of what I was actually breathing in from my central air/heating system, (aspergillus, pencillium, phoma type molds, yeasts, etc. tested by a professional mycologist) life is an every day struggle. As far as management for the building being aware of the issue, well they have had a copy of my mycologist reports since last year’s testing took place. What I have come to find out, is this mold issue has been in the building and problems a lot longer than I rented from them and nothing but washing a few apartment walls and repainted was called the remediation. Only one apartment recently that had some molds coming out of the walls, well the painters came in, cut out portions of the walls, took out portions of the insulation, put portions of new wall board and new piecese of insulation, painted and that was their remediation. On this particular occasion, when I had walked down this hallway, there was a big gray cart with the moldy wall pieces laying on the top. Yes, this sent me back into urgent care being treated for yet another overwhelming hit. Although, I can’t say that any of my days are great, since still living in the toxic building that consists of disabled/handicapped and elderly people. I have asked over and over, why doesn’t anyone take this story to the media, well I have tried and turned heads is what I got. Although I must add that once televevion station almost took the story, but backed down before coming with the reasoning that the editors just decided not to take the story. Is it because it is a HUD subsidized building complex, who knows. These people know it just isn’t the few of us that have medical documentation to prove our illness, but what if the entire 300 or so people from the two buildings got sick, and I bet some are and don’t even acknowledge that it is caused from the molds. A recent metting a few months back, with the vice president of management confirmed their were others that had complained about the molds issues for a few years, (both buildings), how does this slip by and noting is actually done except for the painters or on staff maintenance man trying to remediate molds problems in the walls or the HVAC system. My health has deteriorated so much, not ever having a respiratory illness before, now having asthma, COPD, RAD, Bronchitis, skin rash, shortness of breath, cough, raspy voice, chest tightness, heaviness in the chest, fibromyalgia that has exacerbated, the list just goes on and on. The many medications including nebulizer treatments, inhalers, oxygen tank, and many pills….there is just no end. I cant have a life, I am always to exhausted even to play with my little grand-daughters let alone do anything else. My children are seeing their mother deteriorate before their very eyes, I am only fifty and feel like I am 100. It just never ends….I don’t want to die from this,but with the project housed voucher from HUD, I can’t rent any where else. What happens to the 300 people between both buildings. We all are not safe here. Who will help us speak out, after all we could die from these toxins. Here is little of what is happening with the toxins that are affecting us here. I would like to help in getting more stories out by putting them on my oped news, and on myspace with some others. If I can help by putting these stories out there, please feel free to email me stories at dsb06@yahoo.com or send them to http://www.myspace.com/fightdeadlytoxins

   I want to be involved by helping others get their tragic stories out more into the public eyes. We need to be heard, and if the only way I can be heard is through the internet sharing my story, I hope others will let me post their stories as well. This is a national health crisis, and needs more attention from all of us.

2. admin Says:
   April 27th, 2007 at 10:28 am

   Thanks Darlene, I went ahead and published your story as a full post. Good luck with your battles, both health and home.

3. Darlene Says:
   May 7th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

   Thank you so much for posting my story that I had written here. Yes, as with many that are ill from molds, our fight does not seem to be over in the long run. In just reading the news paper yesterday, I still find on occasion how people leave their homes because insurance companies do not seem to help (in opinions), people are forced to leave homes and even protest in front of that particular company. I feel some of us are not left with many choices, so we have to do what we can to try to save what is left in our lives, if anything. Once again, thank you very much for posting this story for me. It is well appreciated, we need all our voices heard, and help to spread the word how these deadly toxins affect lives and destroy them.

4. donna Says:
   June 6th, 2007 at 12:04 am

   Our dream home that we built has ended up being a NIGHTMARE. The day after closing we had a water leak that the plumber didn’t tighten a supply line. That started the TOXIC MOLD ISSUES. A month later preparing to have a birthday party for a friend of mine I noticed a spot on the ceil which it ended up storming and caving the ceiling in and MORE toxci mold on the wall. As well as the windows not being sealed or the vents in the attic. Lots of ways to have major mold GROWTH that has Created very serious issues. I had surgery and 2 of the children have had to have surgery and we have to give breathing treatments to a child of ours that never had been sick. RECOMMEND: Even if it is new construction hire a inspector, we were told that we didn’t need one due to all the the inspections that we would have to have to get the certificate of occupy. Had I know that they would just sign off due to new construction I would have done an inspection on our own and the inspector would have found all these problems and we wouldn’t have closed on the house. Now we are stuck in it as we cna’t sell it in the shape it is in and we will loose a lot due to the disclosure laws. I Pray that they will by the house back in the litigation.

5. admin Says:
   June 6th, 2007 at 11:41 am

   Richard, go ahead and cut and paste the story into a comment section and we will post it.

6. Neysa Kokinos Claytor Says:
   June 13th, 2007 at 5:23 pm

   Thank goodness you are all there and providing info & support on this issue!!
   My experience is classic: On 11/01/06, I leased a HUD/USDA subsidized apartment, and became ill within 3 weeks. Having been exceptionally strong & healthy all of my 52 years, I spent 6 months in an environment that had been water damaged twice (1999 & 2002)w/out remediation.Like everyone else but the wealthy,I have been misdiagnosed medically & psychologically, evicted,homeless,face losing everything,and am in despair.This is hell on earth,when the EPA,CDC,FEMA,OEMS,etc. are informed but are not taking advocacy stances. I knew the lady who lived in the apartment before me; she passed away in 2006,diagnosed w/emphysema,lung cancer,allergies,also classic.She was a kind,intelligent woman;her suffering was needless. Equally appalling is the refusal to adhere to HUD regulations by the owner&mgmt.agents as well as the Public Housing Authority.This inaction & subsequent evictions,etc. is “Victim Blaming”.When a person is made ill from an environment they did not create & is forced to question their sanity or the reality of the basis for illness, it is CRIMINAL.Time for major rally/lobbying~ I’m e-vailable:januarymoon1@yahoo.com, ready to act & advocate however.
   Peace,
   Neysa K. Claytor

7. Jillie Says:
   July 7th, 2007 at 11:19 am

   I work in the Alternative Healthcare industry. I learned something last week that is VERY disturbing…

   http://jillieofthevalley.vox.com/library/post/where-is-the-outrage.html

8. susan Says:
   July 8th, 2007 at 4:51 pm

   I’m here writing this because there is a part of me that still clings to the hope that my nightmare of toxic mold will one day end. I am only one voice and so far have experienced over and over again, not being heard or being dismissed by doctors, an insurance company,my local health dept, the State Dept of Health, My local Red Cross and numerous other organizations, institutions that all respond with. We don’t deal with issues of toxic mold. My story starts with living and raising my 4 children in my country home that sits on 5 acres that is now uninhabitable. There is an $800+ a month mortgage payment on a house we can’t live in and the insurance company doesn’t cover mold. The cost for remediation is far too costly to afford so the house justs sits there while I try to figure out some way to resolve this nightmare. I can no longer work due to chronic ongoing health problems, COPD, fibromyalsia,empphysema, and I am only 44 years old. I lived for 4 months with an extemely painful rash on my stomach, went to countless doctors begging for help/relief because I had no idea what could be causing this rash. I had biopsies done and were sent to a lab that came back inconclusive. This was after 3 months of getting very little sleep, due to the pain that seemed to get worse each day. When I mentioned the possibility of toxic mold to the dermatologist, he totally dismissed my comment and said that mold doesn’t cause rashes. I have no idea just how many doctors I saw within that four months still unsure what I was dealing with until someone suggested having air testing done after my 7 year old daughter had her first nose bleed at my kitchen sink. This was the last time my daughter stayed in our home. Between the rashes my children would break out in whenever they were in our home and the rash I had that never went away, I had the air and surface testing done and the deadly toxic mold was found under my kitchen sink where my daughter got the nose bleed. There were high levels of mold throughout the house and we had to evacuate our home immediatly. The was the second time that I’ve experienced this kind of loss. The first was when my parents house burned to the ground and all of our family memories with it. The difference between that experience and this one is that people did reach out then and now after this experience and reaching out for help over and over again with no results it leaves me feeling more helpless, more devasted and broken. Heartbroken. I sit here with a lump in my throat just wanting to go back to the life I knew before all of this when I was raising my children in the only home they have ever known, when I was healthy and could play with the children and could plant in my garden and tend to my home. To those of you who have experienced the pain and agony and the devastation you feel at having to tell your children that they can no longer live in their home, when you close the door not knowing when if ever you will return and how you are going to financially afford it, my heart goes out to you. I wish I had one answer for us all. I go to my old home and stand outside and grieve with the longing for home, for God to make a way for us to go home. I hope that one day there will be some good to come from this and quite honestly right now I searching for what it could possibly be. I am grateful that we got out of there with our lives because I know there are those who haven’t been as fortunate. The last five years have involved one loss after another starting with my sister and her death from lung cancer, my father being diagnosed with altzheimers, a pending divorce, the loss of our home and my health. At this point I am searching for hope and doing the best I can to cope with life as I know it now. After in excess of 400 phone calls to get help, I still have received no direction on what to do. I would like believe that there is something I can do, somewhere I can turn to get the help I need and any suggestions would be a blessing. Please, those of you that are feeling the same sadness, frustration, longing to go home know that you are not alone and I am waiting for prayers to be answered.

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10. Ron Says:
    January 20th, 2009 at 11:23 am

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