Re: Live, did other people in your building get sick?

[Guest guest]

Jill,

Ide have to say that at least part of that is because they are not in a dark

small closet with no ventalation. Circulation and even a little light seem to be

key sometimes it seems. That is probobly why closets get musky in the first

place.

Just a thought...

From: jill1313 <jenbooks13@...>

Subject: [] Live, did other people in your building get sick?

Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 2:08 PM

Was it just your apartment or a building wide issue? Did others get

sick besides you and your wife?

Most people in my bldg are fine. Whatever mold issues are in my

apartment, and other apartments, I suspect my sensitivity is partly

from lyme. I'm sensitive to many molds. OTOH, I washed all my towels

and have them folded up in my livingroom on the bureau and they're not

getting that musty smell. It seems like being against the wall, even

in a " fake closet " that I made from a curtain rod to the left of m y

front door in the foyer area where there is a space where you also

could just build a closet---even there, without air circulation and

near the wall/ceiling, things get musty.

Its kind of weird. You'd think they should get musty out int he room

too? But they don't so far. Of course my livingroom is starting to

look ridiculous with folded towels, a folded wool fill futon and wool

felts I haven't turned into a bed yet, drying racks with clothes on them.

[Guest guest]

I've left the doors ajar to my closets.

Also the closet I " made " has a curtain rod above the molding but a

full foot below the ceiling, and just a cotton curtain hanging. So it

should get ventilation.

I get the impression the wall cavities themselves have something in

them. Who knows.

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[Guest guest]

Yes, vemy ex-roommate (girlfriend until I got really sick the first

time) got celiac disease,

at the time I did not make the connection..

A previous downstairs neighbor had dramatic worsening of existing

diabetes, and very bad neuropathy,

I don't know much more except I saw him pass out on the street in

front of our building, pass out cold,

and hit his head, hard on the street. He lost a lot of blood. An

ambulance had to be called.

He was in the hospital for a few days. He blamed it on his diabetes.

Other neighbors were obviously sick but I didn't ask why. They looked

*that* sick.

Their apartment REEKED of mold.. The people in that apartment really wanted to

avoid complaints because they probably realized they would never find

another apartment with their income.

So, I then kept the information related to them and the photos I took

in their apartment of

the mold inside *their* walls out of the complaints I made.

But, later on I realized that they were not unique. The inside of the

walls had serious issues.

Some of the people in the building may have been HIV-positive. I don't

know, and never asked.

It was a nice neighborhood, VERY safe, very colorful, lots of shops and cafes,

most buildings very well kept up, also, not cheap at all. Most of our

newer neighbors

were professionals, not urban poor. The older neighbors tended to be

much more marginal.

It was a neighborhood in transition, as they say. Rapidly being gentrified.

But this building was probably at least 1/2 to 1/3 seriously ill.

Mold may not have been the only cause, but it was clearly effecting

others. The lower down you went,

the closer you were to the nasty (stachy) basement. The roof was also

flat and old.

The building flexed when the wind blew. We were on the top floor.

Our relatively healthy next door neighbors had headaches, 'allergies',

more recently I don't know,

Although I have their phone numbers and email addresses I have not

tried to find out what is happening there now.

[Guest guest]

" A previous downstairs neighbor had dramatic worsening of existing

diabetes, and very bad neuropathy, "

Do you know what ever happened to this person?

[Guest guest]

No, he was eventually evicted, and I never saw him after that.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:10 PM, C A <semco_semco_semco@...> wrote:

> " A previous downstairs neighbor had dramatic worsening of existing

> diabetes, and very bad neuropathy, "

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> Do you know what ever happened to this person?

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