Fw: [MCS-CI] Please help me and my 8 year old son

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more on Jo and her indoor air problems. Carol , you might want

to touch base with her - since you know more about this than any of us. We

need to find her a really excellent IAQ person who knows biologicals inside

out. Any suggestions?

barbara

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From: Birtha2@... <Birtha2@...>

bherk@... <bherk@...>

Date: Sunday, February 14, 1999 11:27 AM

Subject: Re: [MCS-CI] Please help me and my 8 year old son

>Barbara,

>

>Thank you for your concern. Yes, our home has a bounty of mold. It is a

>large house and every room where I have removed sheetrock, each piece has a

>speckled appearance on the back. My pediatrician thinks that it is

>aspergillious. Also, when our son arrived (surprise gift on our 19th

wedding

>aniversary), we built additions on both sides of our home and apparently,

>there has been leaking through the walls at the site of attachment. Too,

the

>builders cut through a drain field and water came up through the slab in

our

>laundry room, located beneath Marcus' room. Since caulking the entire

outside

>of house, and many, many more costly control measures, the air quality

seems

>worse now than ever before.

>

>We live in Northern Virginia about 50 miles from D.C., and Barbara, I would

>have taken Marcus immediately away from this house had I not visited other

>homes in other states and we both experienced symptoms in all the places

we

>stayed. We are desperate and I do believe our home is the catalyst and Dr.

>Rea's Clinic certainly would help. We spoke with an enviornmental

engineer,

>but told him since there were so many obvious problems, we would first try

to

>resolve them ourselves...to no avail apparently.

>

>Thanks again,

>

>Jo and Marcus