Guest guest Posted September 26, 2006 Report Posted September 26, 2006 My wife started at a company and at the time they owner of the building was trying to remove mold from certain areas of the building. After 6 weeks in this environment she started having attacks that were associated with having Meniere's disease. She now has complete hearing loss in her right ear, very loud tinittis, daily dizziness and at times vertigo. She now works for a different company and her health has improved but she still will have continued problems with Meniere's for the rest of her life. It seems pretty clear to us that the Meniere's was triggered by the exposure to the toxic mold, but we cannot find a doctor who is willing to put 2 and 2 together to give us a causality statement that it is " possible for this exposure to toxic mold to be responsible for my wifes condition " . And without that causality statewment no lawyer will touch us. We have seeked out experts and on one occasion we were told point blank by a specialist at Duke that she is unable to ever give a diagnosis resulting from a sick building, and that she would not be involved in any form of litigation. Even though in her own journals she has stated that there might be links between mold and Meniere's disease. I thought at the time she wouldn't help us because my wife wasn't one of her patients, so we traveled to see her, and the only thing this doctor wanted to do was either perform brain surgery or chemically kill her right ears balance function. It literally came to the point where we were sitting in her office and she said " Okay which do you want to do? Make an appt. when you are ready, goodbye. " Can anyone here help point us in a direction of a doctor who is willing to do the right thing even if it isn't the easy thing to do? Or know of any lawyers that deal with sick building or mold cases? Thank you for taking the time to read this. Quote
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