Risty's Testimony

Hello Friend

I am so glad that you are here.

Take a moment from your hectic schedule to just breathe for a moment.

Life never seems to go the way we expect it to. We often get derailed as obstacles and trials come our way. It is hard to keep the joy when you feel trapped, sick, lost and hopeless. My life certainly has not turned out the way I planned.

My husband and I lost a baby, our fertility, our health, family members, our home and everything in it and our financial security. It can be so hard to keep that twinkle in your soul as you are faced with hardships. A lot of our trials could have been prevented, so I want to share my story with you, I pray that it will touch and help someone.

Below you will find my testimony, how toxic black mold and Lyme disease effected us and our journey to healing.

Here is our story…..

I lived in a house filled with toxic black mold. For 5 years and I didn’t know it.

I moved into the farm house during the fall. It was my Grandma’s house, not far from my parents. I had attended family dinners and experienced love and laughter there. It overlooked a valley filled with happy cows. It felt like home.

I was sick within weeks of moving in, I had a constant strep throat infection that lasted for months. I was exhausted, slept all the time, couldn’t eat and had to sit in the shower because I was too tired to stand.

Little did I know it was not strep throat at all….

My mother was diagnosed with cancer that next summer and I began to date my future husband. We were married in February, and my mother died that September. By this time I had gained a lot of weight, 4 pant sizes. People told me I was stress eating, only I was hardly eating at all. Little did I know it was inflammation from toxic mold…..

I began to lose my personality. I no longer felt like me. I did not laugh, I did not cry and I could not concentrate. My mind would not make complete thoughts, I couldn’t remember anything, it was if my brain was not firing as it should. I was listless, not really depressed, but I had no motivation to do anything. The medical doctors told me I was depressed and put me on antidepressants. A few months later they took me off of the antidepressants and stated “It’s all in your head” and referred me to a counselor. It was not “all in my head”. Little did I know mold disrupts the brain neuron’s synapses……

The panic attacks came next, out of the blue, unwarranted. I would panic that I was going to lose Nate.

They were accompanied by creepy nightmares. I was afraid to go to sleep. The medical doctors told me I was fine. Little did I know that mold can cause panic attacks and night terrors……

We lost a dear friend to suicide and a Grandpa.

We lost a baby.

Did I mention black mold has been linked to miscarriages…….

Next came a yeast infection that lasted over 6 months. I went to four different doctors. They advised me to wear cotton and told me I was fine. Yeast is a type of mold………..

I became so sick I could barely function. The room spun and I was extremely nauseous all the time. My balance was gone and I would stumble and run into things. My vision became blurred but the eye doctor said I was fine. The sunlight hurt my eyes so much I would squint with sunglasses on. I quit working. I sat in a chair most of the day trying not to throw up. The medical doctors ran tests and told me I was fine, that maybe I should stay off of Gluten. Little did I know mold highly effects the nervous system…….

After 4 years, I began to see a Doctor of Chiropractic, who treated me holistically. He believed me. He did not tell me it was in my head. He was the first person in years that did not think I was crazy. He said my endocrine system was not working, that includes your thyroid, pituitary, hypothalamus. Mold attacks your endocrine system…..

After a year, I could function on the vitamins but I was not able to get off of them. He began researching trying to find the cause, trying to find what was making me sick, because he believed me when I said I still didn’t feel well. He asked me “Is it possible you have been exposed to a lot of mold”.

I said no, I didn’t think so, I had not seen mold in our house.

Around the same time, we had begun speaking to fertility doctors, as we were not able to conceive again. My lady mid-wife asked me “Have you checked your house for mold because mold can cause low sperm counts?”

That was two different doctors. Who suggested mold.

We checked the house and found black mold growing from top to bottom all around our basement BEHIND the paneling. It was OUT-OF-SIGHT. We had no idea.

We thought we would clean it with bleach….WRONG. What we did was send the spores air-born, contaminating EVERYTHING in the house. We could not keep anything that was in the house. Not even our wedding photos. We left our home and everything in it. It looked like we had gone to Walmart and never came back.

Insurance did not give us a single penny. Apparently mold damage is not covered under home owners insurance.

Had we read the bible on how to clean mold before we started, we would have been able to keep our things.

We moved in with my in-laws as we searched for a new home.

I never had another panic attack or night terror after leaving the moldy farm house…..

I went to the medical doctor and told him we had found black mold in our house and asked him to help me. He told me he hadn’t ever heard of mold making someone sick. He told me to stay out of the house for a few days and see if I felt better.

My Chiropractic Physician researched the topic, learning how to kill mold, for you see mold is a living organism, it grows inside of your body, feeding off of you, killing you from the inside out, just like cancer. Mold will attack every part of your body. Mold can kill you. Mold creates a biofilm, which is a protective slime layer, making antibiotics useless in fighting it.

My Chiropractor ordered materials from England and we began a mold detox. The detox first strips away the protective biofilm, then kills the mold. It took a full year for me to test free of mold, 6 years since I had moved into the farm house.

Detox makes you sick, super sick……for as mold is attacked it releases more toxins as a defensive tactic.

My husband did not have as much mold in his system. It only took him three months to detox and he has not relapsed.

I was mold free for one month and relapsed. I am currently undergoing the detox again.

I continue to discover different ways the mold has effected my health.

Even though I am still detoxing, I feel so much better. The dizziness and nausea are gone. My balance is better. I am able to work at a fast pace job, a newspaper, that requires lots of thinking. My brain is firing normally again. My personality is coming back. I lost 6 inches in my waist the first week I was off of my mold detox, as all the inflammation was finally flushing out of my body.

I am starting to see life as an adventure again. The twinkle in my soul is coming back.

I pray that the posts on this blog can help you.

Remember there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Your soul can and will twinkle again.

You were born to sparkle,

Risty