| Mold is something we all know about, or do we? I | | | | Us like many people in this country thought of |
| thought I knew about mold. It smells musty, it | | | | mold as a musty odor and gross black or green |
| looks gross, and it's found everywhere. Right? | | | | or some other color that is growing on a wall or |
| Well that is true, but it should not be in our | | | | other surface. What people do not know about |
| homes, in the walls, and under the floors, or in the | | | | molds and funguses is that high levels of the stuff |
| basement, or attic. Mold can make some people | | | | can make a lot of people very ill, and in some |
| very, very ill, and in some cases it even kills! The | | | | cases can be deadly! Some of the symptoms of |
| story below is our story. Our hope is that by | | | | toxic mold exposure is, Nasal Congestion, Irritation |
| telling what we have been through and we | | | | of the eyes, nasal passages, Inflammation of the |
| continue to go through, that others will learn about | | | | sinuses, Irritation of the skin, Breathlessness, |
| the dangers of mold, how to deal with it and | | | | Headache, Runny nose, Fatigue, Cough, Sore |
| when to leave it altogether. | | | | throat, Hoarseness, Inflammation of the ear, |
| 5 years ago we moved to what we thought was | | | | Bleeding Lungs, Nose Bleeds, Memory Loss, |
| "Our dream home". We had a couple of acres of | | | | Arthralgia ( Pain in the joints without swelling ) and |
| land to grow our gourds and a place for a veggie | | | | the list goes on. |
| garden. A nice 3 bedroom 2 bath house. All | | | | I have always had a sensitivity to just about |
| nestled on a 194 acre farm. | | | | everything, certain plants, pollens, dust, chemicals, |
| In January of (2005) we all became very sick. | | | | medications, etc. We moved to the house |
| High fevers, lungs full of gunk, head full of gunk. | | | | mentioned 6 years ago. The second Spring we |
| Our youngest daughter got a horrible infection in | | | | were there I noticed that my allergy to tomato |
| her ear that looked like white mold was growing | | | | plants, had gotten much worse, and I could no |
| all inside her ear. The doctor gave her antibiotics | | | | longer mow the grass without breaking out in a |
| which did NOTHING for her! It took two weeks | | | | red rash all over my face and arms that itched |
| for the infection to be totally gone. After the | | | | and burned something horrible. Over the past 5 |
| antibiotic did not work for our daughter, we all | | | | years it has gotten almost unbearable. Not that it |
| started taking Olive Leaf Extract. Olive Leaf is a | | | | is excruciatingly painful. It's just aggravating to |
| natural, (God's) antibiotic. It does not build up in | | | | burn and itch just because you picked a few |
| the body as antibiotics do, and it will treat viral | | | | tomatoes, or mowed the grass. It's even more |
| infections as well as, bacterial and fungal infections! | | | | frustrating though, when the same thing starts to |
| After starting on the Olive Leaf we all started | | | | happen when you dust or sweep, when it never |
| feeling better, but not 100%. We remained | | | | was a problem before. |
| "almost well" for weeks and weeks. Then one | | | | My allergies have grown and are now magnified to |
| day for some odd reason I don't even remember | | | | the point that I'm almost constantly itching, |
| now, we moved our bed from where it was and | | | | sneezing, coughing, have a runny nose, headaches |
| when we did, we found black mold growing on | | | | all the time, swelling and extreme pain in my legs, |
| the wall. The mold was growing on the corner | | | | ankles, feet and knees as well as my wrist and |
| walls where our bed was up against the wall. We | | | | hands and especially throughout my entire spine. |
| immediately threw the mattress and box springs | | | | My whole body hurts. I have horrible pains in my |
| out, because the mold was all over them. With | | | | chest, ribs, and back. It hurts so bad in my chest |
| this discovery we began to understand WHY we | | | | at times, that in the beginning, I questioned if I |
| had all been so sick for so long and WHY we | | | | wasn't having a heart attack! |
| were not getting entirely over it. We also began | | | | My hope and Prayer in writing our story and |
| to understand why the outer east wall of our | | | | publishing it on the web, is to help others to see |
| bedroom had always looked like something was | | | | the dangers of mold exposures. Mold is very |
| eating the drywall under the paint. Moisture and | | | | dangerous, and anyone who tells you otherwise is |
| mold was eating the drywall and had been since | | | | flat out LYING! Sorry but it urks me to no end |
| before we moved in. I also began to understand | | | | when doctors try to tell patients there is no |
| why our older daughters room had always | | | | danger. Yes folks doctors all over the country are |
| smelled musty and moldy, and why she always | | | | trying to say mold is safe. Oh please! Tell my |
| seemed to get sicker than anyone else in the | | | | family and the other thousands of family's deathly |
| house. There was a serious mold problem with | | | | ill from mold that it is safe. Think about it folks, |
| our home and it was making us all sick. We then | | | | mold is dangerous. Do you think the mold |
| started researching mold on the web. We learned | | | | remediation teams would wear space suits to |
| more than we had been ready for. | | | | clean it up if it were safe? Not a chance. |