Toxic mold devastates family, causes myriad health problems

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[Attackatyourownrisk]

This is gross. This is the reason why a lot of people have unknown issues going on. The doctors should be equipped to diagnose properly. This is crazy.

[instasupermamka]

Finally someone is speaking about it in the news

[TheRockyCrowe]

Crazy how this could happen to anyone, the scary part is this could’ve gone on for years if they never considered the house itself to be the issue. Rarely do people consider their own environment .

[nygal]

I've lived in mold decades ... I'm homeless again and very sick . I was on pix 11 news trying to warn people..had a website and non profit..but honestly my body is broken to sick to do much now. List 3 homes and everything I had. .thank goodness more awareness is coming. This is a pandemic killing many people .

[daphnea]

This happened to some friends of mine. They were having trouble conceiving a child and the wife kept having painful hormonal issues for months upon months that screwed up her menstrual cycle. They found the mold, moved out, and just a month later all her problems resolved and they finally conceived a child!

[Zilear]

I lived in a house infested with black mold for 7 years while living in poverty. It almost claimed the life of my mother. Me and the rest of my family would’ve followed suit. We managed to escape poverty and the house before it killed us. We’re much healthier and happier.

[Waterdamagecu]

As a water damage and mold remediation contractor I see this almost everyday and I explain to my customers how bad it is. I’m glad I’m able to help people get rid of mold in their homes.

[itsweaponX]

Some people have a nose for mold. Whenever I look at a new home, I'm able to smell this musty smell whenever there is mold. It helps to detect mold when it is not visible. I met teenage kids of one family who developed asthma after living in a moldy basement home. Mold and mildew are toxic.

[lindsayrigali]

3 dead people in my unit. I came home to my husband dead on the floor at 40. Neighbor downstairs had pneumonia 26 times and died 6 months after my husband. A family moved in and the wife was 2 months pregnant. Her baby was born with no immune system. I got really sick in 2021. My landlord didn’t believe me for too long. The contractor told me he didn’t want to open up the wall and the property management company is too cheap. The doctors were just as negligent. I had to hire people myself. We had a huge crack in our fireplace. Our roof was leaking. We had rats and birds in our attic and walls. I can’t find a lawyer to save my life. I will not make it much longer. We have 11, 000 spores of aspergillus in our air. I have called the city, the county. I’ve tried lawyers. I can’t live like this. I am in so much pain and I can’t get help to save my life

[wlsnpndrvs]

My family was poisoned by black mold and unscrupulous landlord whom knew it was there and had every family live no longer than 2 years at that location. we were there six years and got infected with mold stunting my children's growth, and still affecting me to this day. He owes me my rent back as far as I'm concerned

[joseribamarjr]

Damn the woman had to faint for her husband to believe in her? Before that he was just telling her to "deal with it".

He sounds like a real keeper

[amandaregan]

Where do we share our personal stories so that information and understanding starts getting out there? This is much more prevalent than people realize!

[jasonpackson]

Going through the exact same experience as this family, but for 10 years now. Everyone in my family is sick, but no money to do anything about the mold. Our mold situation might honestly be worst then what this family is going through, since its in our walls entirely around the house, ac, and under the floorboards.

[SL-lzjr]

We don’t treat mold and mildew as seriously as we should. Most people just wipe it down and paint over mold, not realizing it needs to be entirely removed. It’s costly, of course, but the real cost is our health, our life. My parents live in a moldy home and I wish my parents would put the effort to fully eradicate it.

[maxdaly]

I dealt with this, it was awful. Fatigue, loss of balance, brain fog, trips to various doctors, then found the leak and black mold in the walls. After moving out I did hyperbaric oxygen treatment, 30 min / twice a week, 6 weeks. I felt great after that, I can’t definitively say it was my cure, or simply getting out was, but I’d do HBOT again, no doubt.

[lindafogarty]

That’s awful that poor family. I’m so glad they finally found the mold!

[DARK_AMBIGUOUS]

I grew up as a kid in a house that had mold and my bedroom had mold in the corner on the ceiling and from when I was born all the way through when I turned 11, My nose was always running and I could never breath threw my nose or smell stuff ever. when I was 12, it all went away and I remember just feeling way happier all the time because I could finally breath, I remember being at school and my nose would always be running but now I could finally be normal, I haven’t really thought about this enough to realize how big and serious it was to my life when I was younger.

[scyllastar]

The husband seems like a villain the way he said that with a smile

[debrat]

This is so common. I wish it was more widely known and understood.

[mamasquatch]

There is nothing anyone can do if they are poor. So many of us can't move or fix the problem. We just get sicker and suffer. Especially homeowner's with literally nothing left. Not only that the house isnt worth anything once mold has taken over. Cant even sell.