Shutting down 20/20

[Guest guest]

Please send me and every one else on the list the address to email 20/20 and

Barbara Walters who I now have no respect for. Following is the letter I

intend to send.

Thank you for reading this letter, if you even have enough integrity or

courage to finish it.

You added to the ignorance of millions of people who saw your show on toxic

mold. Many of them may become ill due to toxic mold. They will not seek

treatment or move because they do not want to be mocked the way you mocked

those with this illness. They will continue to be exposed and become more

and more ill until like many with long term exposure they lose the ability

to work or function without help.

I along with others who have been exposed and know the truth will not

believe anything coming from your show or those associated with your show

and we will spread the truth about your lies as far as we can. There are

many of us with many friends and family who have seen us suffer. My goal is

to shut your show down due to a loss of audience unless the ones who laughed

and made statements take my challenge.

I want to challenge those who laughed at toxic mold sufferers to spend six

months living in one of Melinda Ballards rooms with toxic mold(without

bringing vitamins, foods or anything else they would not take on a daily

basis with them). It is time the mockers, who believe the lies they are

told or are simply ignorant, put their health where their BIG mouths are.

Any person or group who is spreading misinformation about this subject is

doing grave damage to thousands of people. As for the guy who just cleaned

his mold up with bleach. You idiot, if you are going to do a story on

something get the facts. You " journalists " have become so lazy you do

absolutely no real research on your subjects anymore, and I am not just

talking about mold. For instance you fool, are you not aware that there are

thousands of different strands of mold? Obviously not or you would know

that most, like the kind in your home or your bathroom grout, are not

harmful to humans. You might also know, if you did proper research, that it

takes high concentrations of even the toxic molds to make humans(and their

pets by the way)ill. You might also know that like other illnesses it takes

different concentrations and different amounts of time for people to become

ill. You also appear ignorant of the fact that all humans are different and

affected by any illness differently. But, as I have seen way too often with

" journalism " these days you went for sensationalism, offered evidence that

was corrupted by those in whose best interest it is for molds not to cause

illness, and treated a very dangerous and serious subject with total

disrespect. Hope your ratings were good you just lost my demographic, as

did The View since Barbara Walters produces that too.

I had never hear the words toxic mold when I became ill. It was not sudden,

the symptoms became worse over time. As an attorney I am trained to

research subject matter before jumping to conclusions. When I continued to

become more ill I began to notice that I did not have the allergy

symptoms(which were only some of the symptoms) after being away from my

apartment for several hours, but as soon as I reentered the apartment the

allergy symptoms immediately reoccurred and did not stop until I had been

gone for hours again. So, even without ever having heard the words toxic

mold, I knew there was something in the apartment making me very ill. I had

not brought anything new in during the time of the illness so could not

figure out what it was. After leaving the apartment for a week(and having

no allergy symptoms during my absence) I returned to the apartment and the

allergy symptoms reoccurred upon my walking through the door. That night on

the news was a story regarding toxic mold. Because I had leaks that had not

been repaired in the apartment, I went to look where the water had been and

sure enough there was mold growing outside the cabinet. The leak occurred

between the walls. So the mold had come all the way through the sheet rock

and grown underneath the cabinet and gone through the wood of the cabinet to

appear several feet from where the water had come down between the walls.

When the maintenance supervisor took the wood cabinet out he called to me

and said, " Do you want to see what is making you sick? " He stated he had

seen this situation I was in " many times before " . He showed me all the mold

behind the cabinet on the outside of the sheet rock and under the cabinet,

and on the inside of the cabinet. The mold had grown in between walls

filling the wall space and began coming through the sheetrock. It was in

the space between my ceiling and the apartment above mine where the leak had

originated. The maintenance man told me, " As sick as you are you should

just move. " I hated leaving my apartment after five years but knew he was

right. I moved out in two weeks. The problem though was I had been exposed

for more than a year at that time. Even after treatment to kill the high

levels of three separate strands of toxic mold in my body the levels of two

are still very high. As long as the toxic mold is in my body it continues

to do its damage.

I challenge anyone who does not believe that toxic mold causes terrible

illness to live in a room that has know toxic mold in it for six months

without leaving the room! The reason for not leaving the room is that in

many cases where couples had toxic mold the one staying home began to show

symptoms long before the one who was gone for long periods. Of course, for

the ignorant of you I will spell it out, that is because the one who left

the house did not receive the same exposure and took longer to show symptoms

of illness.

In conclusion you added to the ignorance of millions of people who saw your

show. You harmed those who have already become ill due to exposure to toxic

molds. Along with having to deal with their illness, loss of work, loss of

homes, loss of memory and other body functions, they will now have to deal

with the millions of ignorant people who saw your show and will mock them in

the same way you did. Have any of you ever had a loved one become ill? If

people did not understand their illness did you see how much more difficult

it was for them? Did you see how much more they suffered? It is easy to

say I have cancer. People know what that is, but when cancer first became

diagnosed people did not understand, mocked and minimalized what those with

the illness were going through. If you have watched loved ones suffer from

illness just think how much more they would have suffered if the majority of

the population was ignorant of their illness and the populace was being told

by " news shows " they were mentally ill and their illness did not exist.

mMany who watched that show will become ill due to toxic mold. They will

not seek treatment or move because they do not want to be mocked the way you

mocked those with this illness. They will continue to be exposed and become

more and more ill until like many with long term exposure they lose the

ability to work or function without help.

It is a very sad day when people who are ill are being mocked for saying

they have this illness. What has happened to our humanity? Where has our

dignity gone? How far will we go to " get that rating " ? You may as well

change your name to The Jerry Springer show. You have really sunk that low.

Sincerely,

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