Re: In BIG trouble - furniture rampant with mold, not allowed to remove it. HELP!

[Guest guest]

Branislav,

Is there somewhere you can go to take a break from the toxins? I

think outside is probably best at your level of reactivity.

Sleeping in a tent in your backyard may even help, if the temp. is

not too cold. Sounds like your immune system needs a serious break

from this stuff.

I can totally relate to what you are experiencing, as I began to

react extremely to things, that no one else could sense, after

working in a moldy building for two years, then discovering I was

also living in a moldy house. Had to sleep in my own backyard in a

tent, while my cousin who was visiting me was just fine inside the

house.

I was reacting to mold spores in my clothing, purse, and the objects

within my purse. I ended up spending every cent I had hotel hopping,

and leaving my belongings behind, in the trash, including my credit

cards, sunglasses, driver's lecense, shoes, etc. I was reacting to

everything. Thought I was going to die. Went to the hospital a

couple times, but they thot I had allergies, and were basically no

help to me. I had rashes on my ribcage and my eyes would swell up

and hadtrouble breathing.

No one else could understand what I was going through. Neither close

friends nor family. They all thought I was suffering from post-

traumatic stress due to another event that had happened years

before, i.e., they thot I was going crazy.

I was a normal, healthy person before this happened to me. College

graduate, with a successful career, homeowner, etc. Very easy-going

personality.

Some day people will understand it better. You just need to do

whatever you can to take care of yourself, and feel better; get out

of the stress/survival mode.

Perhaps there is mold in the walls of your current house that are

causing you to be hypersensitive, also. Just something to consider.

It's been over two years for me since this began, and I can still

feel I begin reacting again when I get around the stuff that was in

my house. I can now go to places where I was reacting before, but I

need to be very careful regarding my exposure time, and keep track

of my levels.

Please be very careful.

Jules

[Guest guest]

" Branislav " wrote:

> I also translated my short email correspondence with which we

did via email a few months ago, and the reactions were the same:

>

> - " He is totally mad. "

> - " Ok just follow that man's footsteps, and the 'doctor's' - live

in a camper instead of a normal house... Good Heavens what the

Internet has done to you! " (as if I didn't have very similar

problems even before 1995, before the Internet came into existence)

>

Branislav, when I was virtually unable to stand up and I begged my

family to at least believe me and quit calling me a liar before I

dropped dead - no matter whether I lived though this or not, my

sister said " It's just your obsessive attitude. You used to obsess

about Hang Gliding and Windsurfing and having fun, and now you've

just chosen to obsess about mold instead. You're a loser who just

can't get a life " .

I think that as much as I wanted to die, I had to stay alive just so

I could prove my case and throw those words back in her face.

I spent every moment outdoors - but even that wasn't enough.

I had to learn to perceive mold plumes and avoid those areas.

I found a laundromat that felt good, I lay myself flat on the floor

to " perceive " any accumulations of mold to see if it was safe enough

to do laundry. There were so many that I couldn't tolerate, but I

kept looking until I found one.

I washed a half dozen sleeping bags - and as many towels.

Wrapped them up in plastic bags and when I was ready to try to

survive another night from Hell, got them out and stacked them up. I

rolled up the towels similarly in a stack. It took anywhere from a

few minutes to a few hours for each new " fresh surface " to become

contaminated.

When it did, I would thrown it to one side and keep a " fresh

surface " for a respite - as long as it would last.

If nothing else helped, I would prop myself up against a wall to

keep my face as high up from the most intense area of spore

accumulations where they occur on horizontal surfaces.

I can't believe any of this crap myself. How can I expect anyone

else to? But I did " whatever it took " to drag myself away from what

I could so clearly perceive - and if anybody thinks I have nothing

better do do than imagine all this nonsense instead of having fun,

I can show them pictures of the things I " chose to obsess about "

ever since I survived this living Hell - like backpacking the

Evolution Basin and climbing Half Dome in Yosemite to name but a few.

If I were you, I'd spend every moment away from that bad zone

to " break the response " as much as possible, and when you are forced

to be there - have a stack of " fresh bedding " that can be rotated

through the normal course of spore settling which forms an

accumulation on horizontal surfaces that occurs in the night.

Try to sleep as close to an open window as possible - no matter how

cold it gets. When you are at your absolute worst - and have the

greatest difficulty trying to arise, and just want to lay there and

give up, that is the very time when you must drag yourself outside

at all costs.

-

[Guest guest]

The only thing worse than having this illness is being subject to

other peoples will. My husband would have rather see me in the

hospital than move one piece of rancid furnitue from our house. piles

of wet green coated 33 records were allways piled up in the living

room. I allways thought divorce and loosing my home would be the worst

thing that could happen to me- but it turned out to be the best thing

for my health. Now I am recovering- healthier than I have been in 14

years- and my ex-husband is dead. These living situations are never

easy to resolve-I feel for you- and hope that you can find some way to

be safe.

>

> The length of this post may be misleading. I am feeling very

exhausted

> due to a problem that at this moment seems insoluble, and cause I was

> exposed to a lot of mold during the past 5 days. However this morning

> I managed to tak a shower and change clothes... and after a few hours

>