Help Desperately Needed

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I read these two (2) messages in another forum about mold. I thought

that the more people that read them, the better the chances that the

gentleman who posted them may find someone who can help. I know it's

a " long shot " , but certainly worth a try! The messages, exactly how

they were written, follow:

quote= " K_Ingram " ]My wife's father is in UCSF Hospital in San

Francisco due to a mold infection. He travels alot, and last he

traveled to Vietnam to stay for awhile. While in Vietnam he

explained that he had stroke-like symptoms and went to see a doctor

there, they prescribed him 2 things but he cant remember what they

were.

Weeks later he came back to the U.S. with the leftside of his face

paralyzed and everyone had thought he had a stroke at first. He was

finally admitted to the hospital where they found out he actually had

a fungal/mold infection that had began in his left ear then spread to

the leftside of his brain. It damaged the nerves to the point where

that side of his face was paralyzed. The hospital has him on

multiple antibiotics and has taken samples twice and done a number of

tests including spinal taps, x-rays, brainscans, etc. however it

still seems to be spreading.

The mold has taken over the entire leftside of his brain and is now

moving to his rightside. He is deaf in the left ear, blind in the

left eye, and has trouble speaking (slurred speech). He has always

had diabetes, so now this infection in combination with diabetes is

terrible. He has a 50/50 chance of living the doctors said, and it's

spreading so quickly that if they cannot stop the growth of this

fungus within the week, his quality of life and chances of living at

all are very slim.

I think it is some rare breed of mold that is native to Vietnam,

which could be why they are having so much trouble trying to stop its

growth, as the antibiotics dont seem to be working. The doctors have

also said that there is a chance that whatever the doctors in Vietnam

gave him back when he first began experiencing the symptoms could

still be affecting him and possibly keeping the antibiotics from

kicking in, but they cant figure out what it was that he was

prescribed over there.

I know this is a long shot coming onto the internet but any chance at

all is worth taking. I've spent the entire morning on google looking

up different search terms and searching tons and tons of different

sites looking for help with no luck. It seems to be near impossible

to find information on such an odd breed of mold, we're assuming it's

native to Vietnam.

ANY HELP WOULD GREATLY BE APPRECIATED BECAUSE THIS IS A VERY TIME

SENSATIVE ISSUE!