Re: Mold growth has smothered common sense

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Subj: Ill From Toxic Mold

Date: 7/5/03 5:08:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time

From: Gingersnap1964

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Dear Mr. ,

I just read your story on the Sick Building Support Group Web Site. Let me send you something to tell you this is a REAL problem. I have lost my whole life. Mine is from working in a moldy basement on a Government Shipyard. I have been denied Workers Comp and forced to take disability as a single mom. 40%. Below is a years condensed version of a letter to a Toxic Mold Attorney.

Thank you for your time,

Janet s

Yes, even way up here in Maine.

Subj: Very Ill from Toxic Mold in a Government Building and They are hiding it

I have become very hypersensitive to mold due to years of working in a wet 100 year old moldy basement. First I should say this a a government building on the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth ,NH.

My whole life is gone. I live as a prisoner with air cleaners, I now have asthma and do not last long outside without a three m mask,and I have NEVER had asthma in my life, live on inhalers, plants, and wet dirt are molds and cause asthma attack. I have been fighting this for over a year. I had a lawyer who decided he couldnt make it personal injury, only workmens Comp. OWCP has sent me to moldy clinics to be skin tested. As a result, I cannot drive as muscles are damaged in my legs. They have threatened me, called me a liar and said mold probably came last season.I am also now MCS. I cant stand cooking odors, fragrances, gardens,tar, exhaust fumes from cars.....there isnt much left. I have also sent my immune system out of whack. I am being introduced one food at a time by a dietician to help.

The Shipyard has had me out on paid administrative leave as long as I file retirement disability and go away. I have asked to work at home as I am a Technical Information Specialist with Secret Clearance, but they refused. I have been lied to, bosses have covered up....I have submitted paperwork to the Office of Special Cousel for abuse of authority and hiding a public health danger.

I go from doctor to doctor. I have to clean all the time. Rainy weather puts me in a safe room with air cleaners. I am only 39 years old with a child that just graduated. I have been on rounds of steroids, cannot go into most buildings as the old buildings have a mold smell that will cause asthma and set me back for weeks. If I get this retirement, it is only 40 percent of my pay. I am also on anti depression medicine and am seeing a pschychiatrist as well as a counselor.

They HID an Environmental report that stated the dangers untill I got sick. I have all papers, documents, letters that are lies to senators of my state that I chop up and fax back to the senators. Mostly Senator Olympia Snowe. No one wants to help. I lost my whole life, and need to move but cant find a building I can breathe in. I want a civil suit and money to build a home I can live in and to go to experts in this field that I cannot afford right now.I also have pictures of mold four feet up the walls.There is more. I would run out of room.

Can you help me with this?

Thank you for your time,

Janet STevens

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

THIS picture is BEFORE mold illness. About two years ago. Big difference.

I wanted to make this human and not just words.

I was in there an hour and came out looking like this trying to breathe after using rescue inhaler from this mold infested exam room and building

And here I put the mask back on as car fumes were affecting my breathing as well now that my immune system is screwed up from years of mold, erupting and now am multiple chemical sensitive. Like I wrote. I cant even handle cooking odors.

There was my fun day at the Concentration Camp that OWCP and Jerry FORCED me to go to and NO ONE HELPED STOP IT!!!

Thank you everyone...

Janet s