Mold: an Invisible Killer

This is a story that needs to be read by everyone in the country, it has already been posted in e-zines and other sites on the web, and I am making it my goal to get the word out on mold and it's dangers. My family lost almost everything we owned to toxic mold growing inside the walls and under the floor of our farm house that we dearly loved. Now we have basically no furniture at all, very few clothes, the kids have very few toys anymore, (all left behind), family heirlooms were lost, and worst of all, our health was seriously injured. All because of mold. Mold is a very serious subject that everyone seems to want to sweep under the rug and ignore, but it is not to be ignored, it is very serious and is slowly killing hundreds of thousands of people and most of them don't even know it! Mold causes many diseases, like cancer, arthritis, fybromyalgia, MS, lupus, asthma, interstitial lung disease, and that is only a few, the list is huge. Mold is much more common than people think, and the town we live in (Shelbyville, IN), is FULL of it! There are very few buildings that I go into that are clean, 90% of every house or building I walk into I smell mold of some type. I am so allergic to the stuff after living on the farm, that just a few minutes in a moldy environment and I am sick, either with a headache, unable to breath, severe pains throughout my body, coughing, sneezing, or my face turns lobster red and begins burning and itching. How sick I get all depends on how bad the mold is in the building and how long I spend in it. A few minutes can be mild for me, but an hour or more and I am in misery for days. If I spend more than an hour or so in a moldy building, I can be sick for weeks, even months, all depending on how long I spend in the building. I know I am not alone in my allergy severity, but I also know there are not a lot of us. So far I have met no one with a problem as severe as what my allergy problem is now. The more I am exposed to molds, the worst my allergies get.