Support Allison's Family in Overcoming Mold Sickness

When a fire destroys a house and injures the family who called it “home”, their friends and family – the community – pull together and help restore them to some semblance of safety.

As we’ve seen with the recent hurricanes when there’s a natural disaster, communities worldwide rally in support.

There’s another kind of destruction to home and body that is just as damaging, although nearly invisible. A kind of destruction that doesn't often make the news or bleed into headlines.

While most of us have mold in our homes, dangerous mold can sometimes become so pervasive in walls, under floors, and throughout the house that it clings to clothing, toys, furniture, appliances, lungs, skin, and nervous systems.

Imagine the very toys children play with causing them to feel sick. Imagine photos, mementos, and all those things that hold life’s memories triggering intense somatic dysregulation. When mold is pervasive in a home, this isn’t just something to imagine—it’s real.

Mold releases carcinogenic Mycotoxins. These are what cause mold-related illnesses.

Mold sickness caused by the mold mycotoxins causes a vast array of debilitating physical and neurological symptoms and diseases. It can cost tens of thousands of dollars in yearly medical bills and a total loss of belongings.

This is what’s happened to Allison and her two children ages 11 and 8.

As Allison’s fiance, I’ve watched Allison’s health decline over the past year as she’s experienced increasingly regular full-body tremors, intense fatigue, and cardiovascular abnormalities, with sudden fluctuations from hypotension to hypertension. As I witnessed the physical degression of someone I love deeply, both Allison and the medical community struggled to find a diagnosis.

Until we began to suspect mold.

Once we investigated, we found the house she had been renting for a number of years was retaining water in the crawl space (causing moisture throughout and the rapid spread of dangerous molds), mold in the HVAC system, and under the flooring. The environmental tests showed high amounts of Penicillin, Aspergillus, Chaetomium, and Stachybotrys, and others. Over 420,000 mold spores were detected in a mere 5 mg of dust.

The environmentalist company in combination with the toxicologist (based on tests and spore count) deemed the home as “uninhabitable”.

This past month, they left most of their mold/mycotoxin-saturated belongings and a mold-poisoned home and are moving into a camper temporarily. Due to an allergy to particular molds, an overflowed immune system and increased sensitivities, being near or using items from the home can (and often does) cause instant adverse health reactions.

These new sensitivities from the prolonged exposure now make “normal” life much harder as their bodies are able to detect the presence of mold in ways others may not. Going into stores and buildings can now cause reactions.

Referrals for specialists such as Cardiologists, Allergists, Immunologists, Neurologists and Nephrologists are out to better grasp the possible health conditions stemming from exposure.

Combined with continuing symptoms and intense fatigue that limits the amount of time she can give to work, Allison's funds are limited.

They need the support of a community.

Allison and her children couldn’t save most of their clothing, their furniture, appliances, and belongings.

They’ve grieved so much.

They’ve left the place they’ve called “home.”

They left so many of their belongings.

They had to part with their beloved chickens and ducks.

They’re grieving the loss of their health as they once knew it.

And the financial burden of both healing and restarting is its own form of death.

I know it’s difficult to donate to someone you may not know. It’s even more difficult to donate when so few of us know how awful mold sickness can be and the sicknesses caused by mold are generally unknown (I’d never heard of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Aspergillosis, or POTS). Until Allison’s health began to deteriorate, I had no idea mold and mycotoxins could be so pervasively destructive to both body and home.

If you pray, please pray for Allison and her children . “Thoughts and prayers” are not enough, but this is a crisis on so many levels and it needs divine direction and intervention. It’s been scary for me to watch; it’s been even scarier for Allison and her children.

If you’re led to donate, all donations will go directly towards the ever-growing doctor’s bills, the purchase of Allison and her children’s necessities they’ve lost to mold, and eventual treatment.

Please pray, and please, if you are able, donate to help them through this crisis.