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delshannon@rock.com - 19 Dec 2005 20:17 GMT

I have some mold in my carpet at the entrance to my apartment where
parts of the ceiling
fall this past summer following a tremendous rainfall. There was an
opening in the ceiling
for about three years until it grew larger. I wonder whether this mold
can be contributing to my discomfort that began this past summer? I
thought I had lyme disease, restless legs
syndrome, etc. I had slept on the living room floor up till a kind
friend gave me a mattress,
boxspring and bed frame that he had to throw out anyway because he was
evicted from
an apartment across the street. I've since put up the bed in my living
room but will have to
move it into the bedroom soon so the living room can be remodeled. I
have a small apt
so it won't be easy; also have items in a storage room in the basement
where the steps
aren't easy to climb down carrying items; there is only one railing.
Landlord won't put another
railing because he thinks the space will be narrower!!

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amanda - 20 Dec 2005 01:25 GMT

> I have some mold in my carpet at the entrance to my apartment where
> parts of the ceiling
> fall this past summer following a tremendous rainfall.

I didn't even finish reading the rest because I wan tto tell you my
experience. I am extremely sensitive to mold. I got lingering low
grade fever from the school builidings at the university I was going
to. The student health center was quiet about the word "mold" while I
was suffering. They even sent me to a lab for some unrelated chemical
tets. (mkes me angry when I think about it.) I cleaned my not so cheap
apartment thoroughly and I couldn't see the pretty building where most
of my classes were at as a dangerous zone and didn't contemplate the
possibility of the building full of mold even when I wasn't having the
fever during school breaks.

It wasn't until after much suffering - my immune system became so weak
fighting this all the time that it made my recovering from breast
surgery so hard while the surgery weakend my body and made me more
susceptible of mold - that I put 2 and 2 together and told the health
center that the "mold" in these building were thwe cuase of my fever.
No one even acted surprised and each of the staff started admitting
about the mold problem.

Even though you are not susceptible greatly at this moment, and your
body may be fighing it well, why take a chance? Beside, your guests
might not be like you.

After my conclusion of the mold affects on me, my body could be used as
an instrument detecting mold as the minute I get in a room in that
humid city, say an optical place, or a car shop that has mold, I would
start having fever immdiately. The skin test for Allergy shows
negative on all allergens tested.

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amanda - 20 Dec 2005 01:36 GMT

Don't sleep on the floor. Make sure that the bed and mattress are mold
free.

If landlord doesn't clean your place, call the enviornmental agency or
any organization you can complain about the quality of the unit.

The management at my place did air-duct cleaning for me after finally
threatend them to inform environmental agency. I was getting weird
feeling (not fever) like my eyes were so sleepy but I wasn't sleepy
after moving into that place but it was before I started school.

I got them to do carpet shampooing do with a special condition of going
over with just water after the shampooing to make sure of getting all
trace chemical. Since then, I learned about Dry-Chem Cleaning that uses
a very mild solution. Witht hat I don't have to worry about the carpet
not dryign thoroughly and developing mold.

You must act quickly. You don't even need to go to a doctor and get
skin allergy etsts and all that first to get them clean the place and
prevention for forming mold. Do google search for mold and Houston and
will find a lot of articles.

BTW, I started using Sharper Image Ionic Air Purier in my bed room.
Needs no filter; just clean by wiping blade. I just have a nasl
condition and so this small ozone form the machine helps me. Without
making your dwelling place clean first, no air purifer would help you.

Good luck.

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delshannon@rock.com - 23 Dec 2005 20:18 GMT

> Don't sleep on the floor. Make sure that the bed and mattress are mold
> free.

I am not now, though I slept on the floor for quite a long time
before feeling quite lousy this past summer. My right leg had burning
sensations due to rashes (boils, carbuncles on it) and it might have
also been due to athlete's foot fungus I had in my right big toe; the
nail looks quite white from the infection, I have now for a week taken
chlor(?mazole) as a cream to dissolve the infection. I was told to keep
taking it (I also put it on my left big toe, which had an open wound I
suspect from the athlete's foot fungus, too. I will need to move boxes
and items I have at one side of my living room into the bedroom so they
can repair the opening in the ceiling at the entrance to my apartment;
there is mold on the rug at the entrance as well.

> If landlord doesn't clean your place, call the enviornmental agency or
> any organization you can complain about the quality of the unit.
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> condition and so this small ozone form the machine helps me. Without
> making your dwelling place clean first, no air purifer would help you.

Thanks for your reply!!!!!!

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