Re: Sharon/Re: When do you give up?

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You are welcome, Robin. Glad to hear it helped you.

Sharon

In a message dated 8/14/2010 1:32:16 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,

listspub@... writes:

Thank you so much for saying this Sharon.. I am doing the same thing..

being very cautious.. I dont want to take chances. But I am also trying to be

careful as sanity allows. I needed to hear this. Thank you.

Robin

>

> Hey,

>

> From what I understand, the vast majority of remediations go well. Even

> among those that do not go well, the vast majority of properties are

> remediated to the point that they are able to be re-inhabited by the

occupants.

>

> The problem is not just the buildings or remediation for people on this

> board. It is the fact that people on this board have become so sensitive

> that a remediation that could accommodate them, in many cases, becomes

darn

> near impossible in a timely manner.

>

> Over time, the remediated buildings become " settled " , making them more

> tolerable to the sensitive. How long? How sensitive? Hard to say.

>

> The point is, this is not black and white science with concrete rules

that

> apply the same to all people or all buildings. Collectively we are

> outlayers. Individually, we are outlayers among outlayers. While it is

good to

> gather info from others' experiences, you have to find your own path. No

> one's body is exactly like yours. No one's belongings are exactly like

> yours.

>

> For my family, we did walk away from our house and threw out many

> belonging. Whether we HAD to or not, I will never know. Maybe if we had

waited a

> couple of years, it would have been just fine. But for us, to find the

> answer to that question was just not worth the risk we would have had to

take

> to find if it was safe or not. I wasn't willing to put my daughter with

CF

> back into a potentially hazardous situation so I could see if my

> possessions could be saved.

>

> For us, it wasn't a matter of science or mold spores or what HAS to be

> thrown away. It was simply a risk/value analysis in an equation with

many

> variables. We made our decisions based on our risk assessment and moved

on.

> For us, it was the right thing to do - even if some of our stuff we

threw

> out could have been saved. I don't miss my old queen size bed one bit.

> But I sure would have missed my daughter if we had erred in our risk

> analysis the wrong way.

>

> With that said, several years later some of the stuff that used to

really

> bother me and went into storage, is now in my new house. It doesn't

bother

> me at all now.

>

> Sharon

Sharon Noonan Kramer