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Help Coleen & Rob w/Mold remediatio

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Coleen has been fighting a long, slow battle with health issues. These include SIBO, Lyme Disease, CIRS, Epstein-Barr,  and Sleep Apnea.  She has been struggling with brain fog, pain, severe fatigue, and at this point, it has gotten so bad that she is unable to work.  

This has now been compounded by the discovery of toxic mold in their house.  The cleanup process is very extensive and also expensive.  This is on top of mounting and overwhelming medical bills.  It would be wonderful if we could rally together and help them. 

Given the toxic nature of mold spores they are also having to get rid of all soft furnishings - beds, chairs, sofa, etc. This has added up to a significant amount on top of the remediation of the house and other costs. 

Here are the "highlights" in Coleen's own words:

--> Ok - We are now Asking for HELP, we thank everyone for their thoughts, prayers, and love, now we have a plan of action with our house (my health will be a long process but it is in progress - getting out of the house is the best thing for me). 

I have to throw away most of my memories from throughout my lifetime. I have to keep reminding myself that my health will get better and we are just losing our contents from downstairs and not the whole house. I have been able to take some photos of some cherished ones - mom’s handwritten note, a note from Ham (Robs dad), the story board from the KMart commercial where Rob and I met, letters of acceptance from Universities, pictures from my photo book Ireland 1987, posters from past choreography performances and letters of thanks from dear friends, dancers etc.  Sadly many are not to be saved with a photo of a photo/paper - it is just not possible and they have to go immediately to the trash.

It is emotionally and physically exhausting and this process will take a long time, we’ve only gone through a small part of it all. It’s also crazy because with my mold & Lyme brain not working - I don’t remember so much of my life right now.....

Please send me some energy to make it through it all.

--> The good news, is that we will not have to get rid of everything upstairs, but it will need cleaning and we will need help doing this... will also need help moving big items and with some rebuilding/ repairing. We are not bringing anything that may be contaminated back inside.

This whole process is costing us over $25-30k and to save some of our smaller items (and save several more thousands of $$ from our remediation company doing it all), we will need help cleaning tchotchkes (art, small items, knick knacks). The remediation is not able to start until June 18th - so there is time to do all of it.... We won't be able to move back into our house until the last couple days of the month of June/early July.

--> I apologize for not getting back to each of you. My brain is getting a little better, but I can only do a little bit each day. It is easier for me to reach out or talk with just one medium - my brain can't function with keeping everything together most of the time.... Right now my priority is health (mold first and Lyme later) and dealing with the house. 

--> And more answers - MRSA in my sinuses! Extremely high levels shown from MARCONS test (yeast and fungal results not in yet). My NP said she’d only seen it one time and another NP that was shadowing had only seen it once.

So, CIRS/Toxic mold illness, Lyme and co-infection, SIBO/SIFO, EBV, Chronic obstructive sleep apnea, plus plus plus wasn’t enough! I knew I was sick
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    Mira Dessy NE
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    The Woodlands, TX
    Rob Koehn
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