Re: RE : My Story and Immune and Toxicology Expert

[Guest guest]

Dearest Ginloi:

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your encouraging words!

You brought tears of relief and joy to my heart because I knew you

completely understood what I have been going through not only with my

son's illness but with the battle against the school district. We

truly have been blessed my son is doing much better. There is so

much I have not said that he endured for three years. It was very

frightening. There were many mornings my husband and I literally

wept and prayed for him because we thought we were going to lose

him.

I know what you mean when you said " angels continued to whisper

in your ear " . I too had God telling me to be persistant and don't

give up. I am so thankful I didn't quit even though I had at least

five specialists tell me " something isn't quite right with your son

but I think he'll be okay " . They would shrug or snicker when I would

discuss the moldy environment of his high school building. I heard

that over and over and over again. Thank God I found Dr. .

I knew in my mother's heart he was not alright so I continued to

trudge forward. Sometimes it feels like I am still going forward in

slow motion, but I will continue to move forward no matter what.

Again, as I said before, through prayer, Dr. 's medical

treatment and change of environment, my son is going to make it. He

still has a port-a-cath in his chest (we'll be getting that removed

soon; he can't wait) but has just recently and succesfully finished

treatment and continues to be careful with his diet. I forgot to

mention, my son is a very positive, determined young man and he has

great faith in God. I believe these attributes are big factors in

his path to healing. In fact, he is planning on becoming a nurse

because of all he's been through. He said he knows how it feels to

be sick lying in the bed and wants to help others.

I'd like to mention a teacher who is still in that building

suffering (and many other teachers and students). She is fighting

this battle right along side of me. She is very brave because she is

pretty much alone and right there every day in the front lines of

this fight. Other teachers are not as brave as she. The

administration of this school district is laughing at us. They have

been hiding this for nine years. I was told about the mold in the

school two years ago from a school employee because he was aware of

my searching for help for my son and thought the mold might be

affecting him. The school district has lied to me, cursed me and

they thought I was a fool. They have found out I am not a fool. If

you have any advice for me or the one brave teacher, I would greatly

appreciate it.

As I said before, I have three excellent lawyers from Parrish and

Shaw in Memphis working for me. Things are getting serious at this

point. The district is fighting us in every way possible. I have

kept a journal and photographs regarding this school's mold and my

son's condition for the past two years. Thank you for getting

involved as a lawyer to help all of us who are fighting this

monster. I know the mold fight is cutting edge in our country and

I'm ready to be part of this battle.

God Bless You All who are fighting the fight and praying for

healing. Remember....NEVER GIVE UP!

PS Thank you too KC for your encouraging response. It was good to

hear from you. Hi to Sharon.

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> Hi -

> I was so happy to read your post. It helped me feel more

vindicated. I am a teacher who blew the whistle on a school system

several years back and ended up in law school because of what

happened in my school. Loaded with aspergillus, etc., and now breast

cancer among the teachers and staff is rampant. Several have died.

Now, the staff looks at me very differently.

> Each new cancer diagnosis made them realize they were in a 'sick'

moldy building and I was NOT wrong.

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> It is wonderful that your son got treatment. I am sure you were

told you were nuts, your kid was deranged and a faker. Thank God you

saved his life, and surely you did getting competent testing and

medical treatment which is like a needle in a haystack in this

country.

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> Surely the teachers who almost never move out of a school, become

what I call " career exposed " to poison and you must know that

teachers as a group have a very high rate of cancer and autoimmune

disease. Schools are built on former dump sites. I call them " dumps

on dumps. " Teachers need stronger and better union support for

environmental issues. It is likely that kids, like my former

students have lots of asthma, newly diagnosed, but are lucky

to 'move' for middle and high school.

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> Teachers and staff can end up in a building for 35-40 years - and

if the job doesn't kill them, the building conditions surely will.

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> I had environmental 'officials' laugh at a child who had hair

falling out, skin rashes, etc., when I suggested that the 'mold' made

her sick. They said I would never prove it. Laughing at her was

what made something in me 'snap' knowing that the problem was bigger

than me, and that, the more they fought, the more I was right, and

the law might have some answers for me.

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> I was always evaluated with an excellent rating, until I got sick

and reported the mold, all the way to Washington, D.C. via my

congressman. I went from excellent to unsatisfactory and sent on the

fast-track to be fired. It must have been a large guardian angel

whispering in my ear to 'not be afraid,' because I knew my career was

on the line. I also knew that those kids in front of me with

headaches, newly diagnosed asthma, dry throats, pneumonia, hair loss,

bleeding noses and ears, just like me, would never know why they were

sick, if I did nothing about it.

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> Your son has endured a great deal. And, surely it is a lifelong

lesson, probably giving him skills he never thought he would have to

summon up, to be courageous in the face of such a despairing

situation.

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> The school mold situation is so different from any other. For

many reasons. The school is supposed to be teaching democratic

ideals. It is not a democracy. It is a top-down corporation, driven

by book contracts, food vendors, transportation companies and sadly

the teachers and kids are at the bottom. And, kids MUST go to

school. They are a captive audience. There are not many or any

choices.

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> In the residential setting, you may have some choices. You are

an adult. In the school setting you are a kid, at the mercy of

those 'experts' who will refuse to allow 100% fresh air in an HVAC

building and come up with ways to justify their jobs, by finding a

way to allow only a percentage of fresh air to be in the 'intake'

plenums and refuse to use precautions when repairing a school

building, or classroom.

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> Your child had no choice, except the one YOU created for him, by

getting him out. Teenaged years are tough ones to be separated from

your friends, and pulled out of your school. A new school is tough

to deal with as the " New Kid on the Block. " Hopefully, he can

complete his treatment and go on to college or career, 'defined' by

the strength his courageous parents have given him.

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> You are HEROS!

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