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Hello

My name is , my family and I

lived in a house (that we rented) in Ridgefieldpark NJ it had water

leakes,ect (due to landlord negligence) my family and I were getting

sick, my 6 year (now 7) old is the worst affected and going to the

doctors all the time.

One evening while my daughter was taking a shower upstairs we

head running water in the kitchen, when I looked me saw a river of

water and muck coming from my cabinets. We told our landlord about

all that happened and we needed a plumber, she told us that it was my

children splashing water or leaving the curtain open and said she

would not send a plumber. After we removed the ceiling debris we

could see that there was mold that extended up to the next floor.

My girl friend came over and we were going to use bleach to get rid

of as much of the mold as we could up inside of the ceiling inside of

the cabinet, That night my husband rushed me to the emergency room

because I couldn't breath I remained in the hospital for ten days

under constant medications and frequent tests. When I was released,

the hospital did not know what caused the problems but they were able

to finally return and stabilize my blood oxygen level at about 88%

and release me with 7 different medications to take

Finally my husband convinced her that a plumber was needed.

Apparently there had been a leak that was there for sometime, it was

from the pipe going from the valves to the shower head inside of the

wall and had remained hidden until the ceiling above the inside

cabinet gave way.

The doctor suggested to get it tested I read some of the websites

he suggested, after reading some of the horror stories we decided it

was a good idea. . we had a swab from the mold above the cabinets and

an air test done on the main floor of the house, it came out with

stacybroyors and numerous other micro toxics in the indoor air, the

inside air count was three times over the counts on the outside air

base line count. In addition stachybotris (as well as a few others)

were only found inside of the home.

my husband and I went to the local health department and they

said my son has been sick for to long for it to be from the house,

The health inspector did begrudgingly do a walk through of the house

to see the peeling paint on the upstairs bedrooms ceilings (there had

been roof leaks for a long time that the landlord would put a band

aide on and they always leaked again)

The inspector told us that there was no danger to anyone from the

mold that it was harmless and to clean the area with bleach and cover

the ceiling in the cabinet with plastic. SHE TOLD US THAT AFTER WE

TOLD HER ABOUT MY HOSPITAL STAY AND GAVE HER THE COPY OF THE LAB

REPORTS AS WELL AS THE RECOMMENDATION ON TREATMENTS BY An INDUSTRIAL

HYGIENIST!!! Do to the danger of creating airborne particles that

would cause heath problems for people and animals as well as

spreading the mold everywhere.

WE REMINDED HER ABOUT THE REPORTS AND HOSPITAL STAY AND THE

INSPECTOR TOLD US THAT THE MOLD COULD NOT HAVE CAUSED THE ILLNESSES.

We moved out of the house DEC. 1 2001 but still are not better

I still stuffer headaches and my son has had a sinus infection for

over a year. my son seemed to start feeling a bit better with less

problems after we moved, recently the land lord started renovations

on the house, but did not hire an industrial hygienist, the school is

less then 2 blocks away and my son started getting sick again, while

talking to other parents I found out a lot of the kids had been

getting sick as well with the same type of symptoms as my son. We

talked to the principal and found out she too was having the

headaches and dizziness also, the principal contacted the local

health department and was told that school was cleared and there is

no heath risk (I don't believe that)

We have been trying to find help on what to do for our situation

but after months of searching for doctors, agencies, lawyers, or

anyone who can help us with out any luck.

If you know any information that might help in someway please email

me at SHELLY5214@...

Thank You