Posted by Connie Mellang on 7/23/03

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Greetings,

We are in need of a Toxic Tort Attorney. The attorney we
were working with know nothing about Mold. He did not want
to take on the case because he did not understand mold and
what it can do to an individuals health. This was our
second attorney.

The first attorney reviewed our records then told us, after
I asked her in the first place if they represent the
Insurance company we are going after. Stated they could not
take on our case do to the fact it would be a conflict of
interest.

I have been looking for a Toxic Tort Mold attorney since
March and in our area they are hard to find. It seams like
all attorney hold hands in this area and are afraid to go
after the big companies.

We are looking to sue for Property Damage, Personal Injury,
Negligence Breach of contract, Incompetence. The insurance
contractors did not clean up this home properly in 1999 and
we have just discovered we have Sick house syndrome. So we
would have to go on the law of DISCOVERY.

We have so much information on Micotoxin/Toxic molds.
Although I spoke to one of the industrial hygienist, he
feels we definitely have a case, he also feels we are up
against a wall. He feels we have a very good case against
the insurance company and the contractors for not doing the
job correctly, ending us in a Sick house syndrome of
multiple molds (see list below). The Attorney and the
hygienist feel we will not be able to go after them for
our illnesses (listed below). We have been told by 2
industrial hygienist that we MUST leave our home (do to
our illnesses), which is completely paid for. We do not
have the money to pick up and leave all our belongings and
rent a place. We are on a very fixed income.

Let me explain to you in more detail.

We purchases our home in July of 1999 after having a home
inspection from ______________inspection services.
Inspection date 05/19/1999 - Inspector: _____________.
Every thing seamed to be in order.

We purchased our home owners insurance in July 1999 before
the date of closing. From ____________Agent: _________ We
moved from California in October 1999 and we were do to
arrive on Oct. 10th. I called Cotter water company to have
our water turned on, since we would be arriving on a
Sunday. I spoke to a ___________ and told her to have the
water company go to my neighbors across the street and get
the keys to the house from her. The water company was to
turn the water on 10/07/99. _____________ assured me: "The
guys would not turn on the water with out looking inside
and making sure there would be no water problems."

On 10/8/99, my neighbor was very concerned as the water
company never came to her house to pick up the key, so she
decided to walk over and check out the situation. She was
totally shocked to discover the water company had already
been there and never checked the house out.

The hot water heater had burst and water was flowing every
where. the house was completely uninhabitable. Our neighbor
immediately contacted the water company on 10/08/99 and
told them to get out here and shut the water off. She then
proceeded to content our insurance company to notify them
of the damage.

We arrive on 10/10/99 from California, as our neighbors ran
out and said "You do not want to go into that house" and
continued to explain the devastation.

I immediately contacted ___________ to put us up in a motel
room for the night and was denied until they got the
approval from the agent we were forced to sleep in a small
dry space on the living room floor that night. The next day
I called the agent again __________ and we had to fight
with the agent in order to get put up in a motel room until
they took care of the problem. (we spent 2 months in a run
down motel).

____________ never came to check out the situation.
_________ contacted a contractor they use, called:
________ carpet cleaning and damage restoration. Owner:
________. Clean up did not start until 10/15/99 and was not
complete until 12/14/99. The crew came when they wanted -
spending 20 - 45 minutes most days worked our home in
between jobs and took vacations.

We would call ___________ and complain about the way the
carpenters were treating us and how they continued to
neglect the problem areas of the house. _______ would
continue to back up the contractors and became very rude.
So I contacted the adjuster: __________ only to find out he
was the ruddiest and nastiest of them all.

The hot water heater was located in the main bathroom, in
the middle of the house. The flood from the hot water
heater covered the main bathroom, main hall way, dining
room, small hall leading to the half bath and master
closet. The water even traveled as far as the master
bedroom, a smaller bedroom and living room..

We were told the walls, carpets and floors would all have
to be removed and replaced. As time went on the insurance
company and contractors continually changed there minds. I
recently went down in the crawl space myself, May15, 2003,
I needed to see what they actually replaced and to my
surprise, There was a small patch, approximately 12" by
24/36" of new plywood where the hot water heater sat. Two 2
X 4’s holding up the plywood. There is old moldy hard wood
flooring though out the rest of the house and never
removed. All covered with plywood and top flooring. All the
contractors did was cosmetic work. The mold looked like it
took off like a wild fire from where the hot water heater
sat.

The studs from the bathroom to the small bedroom where
never removed. The small bedroom wall were never replaced,
the old flooring in the dining room was never removed just
covered over with plywood and floating floor. which has
bucked with seams coming apart. They removed wall paper in
the dining room but would not remove the old railroad
siding, just covered it up with sheet rock and painted over
it. They used a lot of the old baseboard that had been
soaked.

After removing the hot water heater, the contractors were
going to put it back into the bathroom which was now not
code. We had to argue with the insurance company to have
the water heater put in the laundry room, begged them to in-
case the hot water heater. They finally did what the code
called for but now we find they did not put in enough vents
as the dust is being sucked in around the door and we also
told them to brace under the water heater, to find out they
had ignored us completely and the heater is now falling
through the floor. We also had to tell them the water
heated needed to be vented outside. They were not going to
do that either. We then went into the bathroom and looked
up at the ceiling and they left a gapping hole where the
old hot water heater sat. When we questioned them about it,
their comment was, "OH you want that covered to."

We were told all the carpets needed to be replaced then
they decided to spray and wash. The contractors put these
huge fans in the kitchen to blow the air through the rest
of the house to dry out the place they closed the doors and
left them for days. This home became a tropical
environment. These contractors and the insurance company
tried to cut every corner they could. Leaving us in a
horrible mess and we are now suffering devastating heath
problems because of it.

We started getting sick, my husband, Jim ended up in the
hospital on Jan 11th -- 14th. He started having fast heart
rate, shortness of breath, palpitations, dizziness, panic
attacks, nausea, internal shaking, stomach aches. (When
ever Jims heart would start racing and the panic attack set
in, Jim got horrible shocks from his defibrillator. This
seemed to happen when Jim was sitting in the dinning room
reading or in the bath tub taking a bath. Each time Jim
would end up having an ambulance rush to his aid and take
him to the hospital. While in the hospital, this would
never happen. Only at home) It was not his heart and the
doctors did not know what to do for him so they sent him
home with flu like symptoms. Jim has been in and out of the
hospital since then. Jim had a major heart attack in 1987,
in California the doctors implanted a defibrillator -
pacemaker. Jim was doing quit well until we moved into this
house. Jim was mowing 2 lawns, house work, reading, coming
to the office to see me. taking walks. then in 2001 Jim
became so ill, I was actually watching him die on the
couch, begging the doctors to help him. The doctors did not
know what to do for him and decided to install the new
technology a tri-ventricular defibrillator pacemaker
implant now his heart is getting stronger BUT he is
continuously sick and has difficulty breathing. He has had
4 lung tests and each time the results are better. The
doctors do not know what to do for him. They are now
starting to realize it must be the moldy environment we are
living in. Jims electrophsyologist raised his eye brows and
stated the environment we are living in is a concern,
because his heart is getting stronger but Jims health is
getting worse. Jim has seen cardiologists,
electrophsyologist, pulmonary, internal medicine,
radiologists. No one can figure out why he is so sick all
the time.

I started getting sick around the same time as my husband.
I was trying to start up my business as and Enrolled Agent
(professional tax preparer and bookkeeping) as I had an
excellent going business in California. But as I was out
walking and promoting my business, I started getting sick,
I could not walk, concentrate and so on. I had to close my
doors on 4/16/2000 I was unable to do my business that I
was so successful doing before I moved here. I was afraid I
was going to put out bad or incomplete work. I then
developed Breast cancer in May of 2002. I feel this is due
to the mold as I do not have any family history of breast
cancer. I have been seeing: cardiologists, endocrinologist,
oncologists, psychiatrist, physiologist, pulmonary,
radiologist, internal medicine doctors, cancer surgeons,
orthopedic doctors. I have been misdiagnosed and many of
the doctors continue to tell me we have mold all around us.
It is everywhere in the world. But they will not listen, I
am living in a mold infested home better known as (Sick
House Syndrome, according to the hygienists that have
examined our home). I just had a blood test for
Aspergillus, the normal range is .6, my blood shows 30.

Our dog - Sarah Jane, an English Springier Spaniel, started
braking out with sores all over her body. She needs a
vetalog shot every month and pills about every 3 months.
The scabs will not go away. This covers her entire body.
She is scratching all the time and her hair continues to
fall out. Sarah is 4 years old and is acting like a 10
year old dog most of the time. She lays around looking very
sick and has no energy. (The Vet is aware of this).


This is as brief a summary as I can give you. The following
information will help make things clearer. There are
letters, complaints, a mold survey that is incomplete and
inaccurate from ______ environmental hygienist. They were
basing this study in the winter as of that day NOT basing
the study on past history. I have been in contact with
Another environmental hygienist ________. This new
Hygienist (Jim) and I went over the report from the first
hygienist step by step. Jim is an indoor air quality
specialist, chemist, scientist and industrial hygienist. I
contacted Jim to set up an appointment to assess our home.

I have been searching the Internet for months. I have
heard that toxic mold can cause breast cancer. I found a
book on Funagalbionics called: The Fungal/Mycotoxin
Etiology of Breast Cancer, Hope at Last.

The authors are: A.V. Costantini, M.D. Head (Retired), h.
Wieland, M.D. Head, Lars Qvick, M.D. Director. WHO
Collaborating Centre for Mycotoxins in Food, Albert Ludwigs
School of Medicine, Freigurg, Germany.

THE FUNAGALBIONIC BOOK SERIES
http://members.aol.com/jfoverlag/

Chapter 29 - Fungi/Mycotoxins Are The Cause Of Breast
Cancer:
http://members.aol.com/jfoverlag/fungalbionics/fgmyc-bc.htm

Chapter 28 - Breast Cancer: Hope At Last:
http://members.aol.com/jfoverlag/fungalbionics/bc-hope.htm

A little over a year ago, I developed breast cancer and had
to have a lumpectomy and 27 lymph nods removed. I am now
on Tamoxifin, which is a mold/fungus fighter for 5 years.

I have been living in a mold infested home for over 3 1/2
years and have recently discover this.. My husband and I
are so sick, there's days we feel like we just want to die.

The doctors in our area continue to misdiagnose us and know
nothing about mold or the harm it can cause health wise..

I am looking for some SOLID information that I can take to
my attorney showing Molds/Fungi/Mycotoxins can cause breast
cancer and other illnesses. I do not know where to go for
this solid evidence. I am trying to locate one of the
authors of these books but seem to come up at ground zero.

After we purchased our home in Oct 1999, and just prior to
moving in, our hot water heater exploded. The insurance
company and contractors neglected to take care of the water
damage that covered over half of our home. They did not
arrive for inspection for 10 days and took them 2 months to
complete the job. We recently found out they only removed
a small portion of the flooring under the hot water tank
and covering up the rest with sheet rock and flooring over
the old soaked flooring. They were very rude and
impossible to work with. At this point the mold is still
growing rapidly under the home.

I have had 2 environmental hygienists here and this is what
they came up with. They both suggested we move out
immediately, but we do not have the resources to do so. We
can't even live month to month with doctor bills,
medications, and normal monthly bills.

These are the types of molds we have in our home:
Cladosporium
Penicillium
Trichoderma
Aureobasldium
Myxolycetes
Aspergillus - Nigra
Aspergillus/Penicillium
Rhizopus/Mucor
Curvularia
Acremonium
Chantomium
Ascospores
Cuvularia
Epicoccum
Torula
Alternaria
Algae
Basidiospores
Bipolaris/Dreschlera
Periconia/Smut
Pithomyces
Rust
Trichocladium
Clear Brown
Hyphae

Can you or do you know some one that can make this stick to
breast cancer and the other illnesses we are experiencing,
because so many of these molds ARE toxic or toxic
together.

Here are the other symptoms we are going through:

Started noticing 3 months after we moved
slowly progressed to date. Many Drs. missed
diagnosed us for years.

Respiratory problems - wheezing - difficulty breathing -
shortness of breath

Nasal & sinus congestion, sinusitis

Eyes - burning - watery - reddened - blurry vision, light
sensitivity

James lost vision in right eye

Dry- hacking cough - spitting up brown sputum plugs -
continuous drooling

Throat & nose irritation -coughing - sneezing sinusitis -
all the time

Difficulty swallowing, choking - blockage of air passage,
like being shut off (exhaling)

Skin irritation - reddened skin - bumps just underneath
skin - if scratched, skin just roles off causing red sores
for weeks to months, continuous bleeding and seeping,
itching, burning crawling skin

Central nervous system problems, tremors - inner shakes
memory loss, difficulty concentrating - constant head
aches, forgetfulness - mood changes - confusion - slurred
speech
difficulty learning, reading, brain foggy

Dizziness - chronic fatigue - extreme depression - anxiety -
anger - sad want to cry - all the time - everything is so
overwhelming - and mixed up - misplacing things

Aches & pains - Joints - Mussels Can't get out of bed -
couch or chair with out help - Extremely hard to walk -
hurt
from head to toes. Very nervous - feels like arms & legs
very heavy - like caring weights now using cane

Constant nightmares- always talking in sleep actually
caring on conversations.

Connies nightmares consist of: Gory bloody people chasing
me with knives a doctor sexually harassing me and showing
up everywhere I go - Get flash back of night -
mares during the day - cant tell fact from fiction

Jims nightmares consist of: Losing me or our dog - dying in
the house

Pneumonia - after having pneumonia shot this happened
twice, Husband ending in hospital. One time surgery was
called off due to high white blood count

High liver counts

Tired all the time, no energy, need to - nap 3 to 4 hours
in the afternoon

Unexplainable flu/cold like sickness - all the time -
chronic illness - stomach problems

Equilibrium off - weaving back and forth falling down -
running into walls

Ears - High ringing - plugged - draining at night

Heart palpitations - skip beats - aching chest

I ended up in hospital 3 times with simulating heart
attack (miss diagnosed as thyroid)

Burning - Strange taste in and around mouth

Swollen lymph nodes

Intermittent face flushing - horrible night sweats & hot
flashes

Bruising easily

Sudden weight changes

Hair loss

Breast Cancer

Leaky Bowel Syndrome

Moles under arms - developed last 2 years

Sorry this note became a letter, but we are desperate. If
we loose our home, we will become homeless, all our equity
is in our home. ( which is now worthless and can not be
sold). We are trying to pay off over $ 13,000.00 in medical
bills between my husband and myself. We are both disabled
and living off our social security disability income. I
lost my business because of all these illnesses. I am an
Enrolled Agent ( professional tax preparer and financial
consultant) and since all this has happened I can not even
balance my own check register. A 15 minute job takes me 4
to 5 hours before I give up and take it into the bank to
have them reconcile the account.

My husband is 51 and I am 49 we both feel like we are in
our 80's.

Again any help you can provide us with will be greatly
appreciated.

Re: Toxic Tort Mold Attorney Needed, 3/01/05, by Jackie.

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