My plans: What to do with my moldy family & friends

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We will be moving in a few weeks. I am only taking car, kids, dog, husband...

who will be communting back and forth.. states apart.

We will be exchanging the car.. selling and using a car that my father is taking

out of his sales fleet at his business.. and using until we locate another

vehicle. We will see if we can shave the dog.. lab, german shephard.. so not

sure how that will go.. but she will be washed weekly and not be allowed on

furniture, beds.. not sure what else I can do. Outside will be too hot for her.

Complicating factor (besides dog) is that my parents and my sister both live in

water damaged homes.

Air counts are reasonable in sisters house (depending on how you look at it ..

below 700 per cu meter mixedmolds) but we all know its the kind of mold, flavor

or aspegillus, etc and ratio that matters as well as hidden molds like stachy.

Cant control that other than I sent her an ERMI kit and I am trying to help her

obtain a good remediator.

My parents house was remediated and we are working with someone trustrworthy to

help guide us here.. there may have been an improper remediation and stachy and

other WB critters were most likely let loose.. the air count was 7 spores per cu

meter of stachy with follow up inspection about 6 months later. First follow up

showed none .. realizing that air counts can not be too accurate but this little

bit is a sign of a problem.

So I have a contaminated family to deal with when we get to our " safe " place..

there is no way to do this with any sanity if I worry to much, but common sense

tips would be helpful.

I cant ban them. I cant isolate. I can have them remove shoes.. I can put

coverings on furniture they might sit on and wash.. ?? I cant not travell with

them in their cars, which they do keep immaculately clean.. or prevent my

children from doing so..

We have friends who also lived in a WDB.. I saw mold growing on one piece of

furniture.. they moved to southern cal and my friend thinks some of her symptoms

are getting better.. same furniture, but she did get of the piece with mold. No

telling if other pieces also have mold.

Would I prevent my kids from playing with their friends.. going over, coming

over if we happened to relocate out their way?

There have to be ways to deal with these kinds of thing? I can see if the

biotoxin pathyway is compromised and constant exposures prevent it from settling

down, as well.. ??

It seems there is WDB syndrome out there.. its like lyme ticks.. you cant get

away from them.. I worked out a solution that gave me some level of peace with

the ticks.. we are checked every night and if we find a tick we take it off, put

in a baggy with a damp cotton ball, with permanant marker write who was bit,

where, date and store in a bag in fridge. If symptoms come up, we have a tick to

check. If the tick was not caught in 24 hours.. you can usually tell this the

way tehy are embedded.. then we send it off to a lab to be checked for lyme

immdeiatedly. This is a common sense plan that fits out reality today.. we live

in a tick infested area and I cannot ban my kids from playing outside.

Thing I have in mind.. washable covers for furniture. Shoes off when come in

house. Good help vac and clean often. Keep car clean, possiby line with plastic

on floors. have kids, husband change clothes after being in WDB/homes of

family.. ?? and shower when come in or at least before go to bed.

My sister has a pool, so they are going to want to be there.

I will be monitoring my biotoxin pathyway markers and starting CSM.

Thanks for any insights..

Robin