Re: re: congress to address toxic mold issue

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Ok OK I am sharing again. This email I wrote to our local newspaper, The Portsmouth Herald this am. I have emailed sixty miniutes, CNN, local tv stations,no answer. Is everyone that afraid of this subject and the federal government? Thanks for letting me share..Janet s

My name is Janet s and I live in South Berwick Maine. I have been fighting the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and US Dept of Labor Workerrs comp since last April. I am severely allergic to mold from a TOXIC MOLD building basement on the shipyard. An Environmental report stating this place is full of Stachybotrus and Aspergillus, Fusarium and many more was HIDDEN for NINE months. I started with sinus, then hives then asthma and now wear a 3m mask all the time as I smell mold in the dirt outside. The shipyard has tried to prove me crazy, now that I called OSHA they have put out paperwork that you need latex suits and respiratory quals to go down there, but the US Dept of Labor says I am lying, mold showed up last season, I used too much nose spray. I have tests, doctors letters, shipyard emails, all documentation.I live in my apartment safe rooms with hepa filter air cleaners right now on admin leave. OWCP wants me to see THEIR doctor and get tested but I have two doctors letters stating that if I am, I may possibly worsen my deteriorating condition. I do not walk well from a high dose skin test in Boston from a doctor who says NO ONE gets sick from mold. He says it is hocus pocus. This is Dr. Aiden Long at Mass General. I even have a witness testimony to that. I ended up on ER again the other night from asthma attack.They want me to sign off on disability. I cant. HOW DO THEY get away with hiding something that SAYS people should be told, that this place was unacceptable, that is was serious enough to cause respiratory disease? I now live on inhalers and NEVER BEFORE had asthma in my life. I worked in this black mold basement eight years then last three above it with holes in the floor for wiring and open stairwell and freight elevator. I have all documentation to prove. I hired a lawyer for a civil suit but not one lawyer in area will help with workman's comp when they hear it is the Shipyard. They say thanks but no thanks. Human Recourse Office there has quite a reputation. They have sent letters to OWCP an d Senator Snowe that is full of untruths. I have involved Senator Snowe. My agency and OWCP send lies.I chop up the letters and send them back. You would not BELIEVE the lies and cover ups from the Federal Government. Anyway, I am a single mom who has lost her whole life and very sick and bitter and fraustrated.They have given me till Dec 31 to make a decision. OWCP hasn't said no yet and as of Dec. 31 I have to take disability, go on leave without pay as I am now on administrative leave, or go back to work where I get sick and this high dose testing I had done has gone deep into muscles. I can barely walk never mind drive. This doctor is what Workman's comp wants to believe, yet I have a years worth of testing and medical information from doctor here which has all been submitted. Its not fair. I even have pictures if this place. Disability is a slap in the face for a smart 38 year old woman whom at the shipyard is a Technical Information Specialist for 16 years with Secret Clearance. Disability is half of my income the first year, then goes down even lower. I have a National Honor Society daughter to send off to college next year. From this, I have had to buy a new car as old one had leaks and was moldy so gave me asthma attacks.No one seems to grasp what mold and mold spores in the air can make people very sick. I wear my 3m mask everytime I leave my house. I cannot go in public places as I smell mold in vents, I couldn't even go to my mothers for thanksgiving as I am so hyper sensitive that her hose makes me sick. No one will tell my story and the Shipyard is trying to hide this. You have to have latex suits and respirator quals to go onto this basement now, but according to Workman's Comp and the shipyard, I cant be sick from this. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Sincerely,

Janet s

55 Front Street Apt 5

South Berwick, Me. 03908 207 384 2242 Gingersnap1964@...