Fuzzy's Testimony

Mold Ain’t that Bad

This is the worse mind set you can have. I know, I thought the same thing. Mold is so terrible and deadly and toxic that my wife lost 2 years of memories. She lost her personality for 5 years, we lost our baby, black mold attacked my testicles lowering my sperm count to almost zero. We lost our house that was in the family for over 50 years, we lost more than $190,000.00 worth of personals and property. Oh and to top off all the loss we suffered, illness, and trials our own families didn’t believe us and still to this day don’t take us seriously about how deadly black mold is.

I’m going to begin with how full of life my wife was when I first met her. Holy cow, Risty, was a handful, full of spit and vinegar, full of sass, highly educated and a lot of fun! When I asked her what she thought of motorcycles her exact quote was, “You better have one and it better not be one of those city boy’s crotch rockets either! It better be a real bike!” I feel in love with her instantly! About three months into dating her carefree wild spirit started to change, slowly, but it changed and at the time I didn’t realize why. I asked her to marry me and even to this day I don’t know why she said yes! With her mom getting sick and working on wedding planning she slowly changed more. She wasn’t in your face full of life. She wasn’t out going, she became very quiet and still. I thought perhaps she was suffering from her mom’s sickness and eventual death and took her to the doctor. He gave her anti-depressants. Well, her work productivity improved however she was nothing but a ghost. She had a cold, almost robotic like personality.

With no change to her actually condition we decided to take her off the anti-meds, and the withdraw symptoms are horrible! My poor bride… We spent three years of our marriage life going to doctors asking them to fix my wife. Oh it’s an allergy to food, oh it’s depression, oh its chronic strep throat, oh its mono, oh it’s a STD (Which is not possible, because we were each other’s first and we waited till marriage). We spent over $15,000.00 on doctors that were never fixing it, they were only throwing drugs at it. So desperate we went to our Chiropractic Physician for help. He helped me with my hay allergy and it worked for two years so we finally tired him.

Doc, has worked his butt off and I will have words with anyone who says otherwise, let me be clear. At first doc found out that Christina’s body wasn’t producing the right stuff (Yes very doctorly of me), so he tested her and found out she needs a short list of meds which was cheaper than one doctor visit at our normal hospital. We took them and after a week, my wife was a total different person! It was really exciting! However, it didn’t fix the situation. Doc, said that her body should eventually not need the meds to correct the stuff that was wrong. However, if she stopped taking them she went back to the robotic state.

We had been married for three years and have not gotten pregnant since we lost our first baby. So we went to the doctors out of Lincoln, NE, and they told us to do a few tests. I did two sperm count tests and my wife did 1 blood work test. My first test read a count of 7, a healthy count is a 20 and a low is 15, so the doctor in Lincoln, said we needed go to a the bigger hospital in St. Joseph because their equipment might be more accurate then we can go from there. So I went a few months later and was tested. I tested with a count of 5, with a high level of mutated or dead things. The doctor out of Lincoln said she couldn’t help us and recommend we go to Omaha, NE, to their big fertility clinic that has high success rate. Before we hung up the phone, the doctor said before you go do the expensive stuff check your house for mold, your husband’s issue can be caused by black mold.

So we got a number from an Iowa company that I don’t recommend. He came, looked around pulled a panel or two off the wall in our basement and said yes you have mold, you can fix this problem yourself and save lot of money. What you do is, close off the upstairs cover your items down in the basement, and remove everything off the walls and scrub it with industrial cleaner like bleach. That night Risty, came home and she became sicker than I have ever seen her (This was before I even started cleaning). I told her she will not come back to this house and she stayed at my parents house in in town. I took our motorcycle gear and the dirty laundry basket so she would have some clothes for work and that was all that remained of our clothes.

I demoed my basement removing everything, behind the thin panels from floor to ceiling was black mold, oh by the way I wore the best you could buy in Maryville bio hazard breather… didn’t help. I tore everything off the ways, the carpet, 2x4s, everything. And it only got worse. There was an old abandon shower in the basement, whoever installed it didn’t do it properly and just left the water drainage open from the stand shower to the basement drainage. The black mold was so thick I had to take a hoe and scrap it off the walls, and floor. I literally dumped a Gallon of bleach on that section of the house. The chemical fume was so bad that I had to leave the house for two days, I got that sick.

During the two weeks, I noticed my attitude and attacking the basement clean up drastically changed. I was going 100 miles an hour for the first solid week but by week two, I think the ice glaciers traveled faster in Antarctica. I literally stopped caring, stop working, and would sit upstairs staring at the off TV trying not to vomit. And when I went to my parents’ house I would get mad and mean and hateful over simple questions for example, the question, “What do you want to eat?” would result in a rant. My poor wife, I became so hateful to her. She didn’t deserve that from me, what I didn’t know was the Black Mold caused my anger to spike I guess it was my body’s reaction to fighting the high exposure to that stuff.

Well after two weeks, the house was finally mold free or so I thought. We decided to clean the walls of the house and clean the air ducts to ensure any mold would be dead and gone. While cleaning it, Christina once again got sick enough she had to sit down and try not to vomit, she didn’t tell me she was feeling like that. But when I caught her I asked her and she finally fessed up. My Aunt who is a Nurse tired told me she read that an easy way to find out if mold grew behind your walls is to remove the base boards of your walls because mold will grow there first. Our entire upstairs house baseboards were covered in black mold. Two weeks of trying to save my house wasted! And worse I spread the mold toxic spores onto all of our possessions.

We were forced to decide what to do with the house. The basement foundation was close to completely collapsing, we would have to literally tear out all the dry wall, spray, scrape, and remove all black mold and refit the house. We were looking at spending easily $50,000 to do so in a house that was in horrible shape. So we decided to abandon the house and look for a new place and clean our stuff. There are professionals out there that are suppose to clean things, however they are quite expensive. We decided we would attempt to clean them ourselves. We scrubbed our tables and chairs, soaked all of our clothes, blankets, and curtains in bleach, and washed the heck out of our dishes. Our clothes re-infected us, our furniture re-infected us, our books re-infected us, the only items that didn’t was our dishes and I believe it’s because we used a dish washer that quickly removed all spores from the dish ware and drained it. I don’t know the science behind it, so don’t ask. But our dishes were and still is the only thing safe for us to keep.

What I should have done… The Holy Bible contains exact information on what to do when you surfer from black mold or “Leprosy of the Walls,” and in short it says to have all persons removed from the house, remove all personal items from the house, once the house is completely empty, then start tearing out the drywall. And the Bible is clear that it must be all. After the house is clean, you have a priest pray and wait for 7 days, after 7 days if the house shows black mold once again you destroy the house. In other words, I should have rented several storage units and moved my house out, that would have saved me from losing over $190,000 of personal items. Then attack the mold. One house inspector said Black Mold you can imagine it like a dandelion, in the “Yellow Head” phase you can clean it with no problems, in the “White Head” phase if you simple walk past it, the seeds spread like wild fire. And worse of all when you breathe it in, consume it, or even absorb it through your skin, it spreads in your body similar to cancer or aids. Once you have black mold in your body it can and will transfer to your spouse through intimate interaction.

Ending thoughts … If your furniture gets infected with black mold, even dead spores will make you sick, you must completely destroy any items that are affected that so no one else will infect their homes. While trying to save our clothes my truck was infected with Black Mold and I had to abandon it on the farm. I ain’t joking folks, if you don’t personally throw it away someone else will take it and infect their house and it will spread. And if you are sick and you see a doctor and what he prescribes isn’t helping you, don’t just do nothing, go see other doctors, research and find information out for yourself. And please don’t repeat my mistakes when dealing with Black Mold.

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