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We once had a lovely life. Struggles and all, it still had its beauty.
After a massive open-heart procedure, I moved to a small town to recover in Pennsylvania. It was there I started and toured the Hopscotch Hands-On Exhibit for the Blind. Around 2005 we moved into a home owned by the housing authority of that county. About a year after living there. I became bed-ridden and began an endless decade of testing, surgeries, and many many specialists. My children also became very ill during that time.
It all came down to mold. I kept the home clean, there was no evidence or odor. It grew within the walls and began to buckle the flooring in the first-floor bathroom. This invisible poison went undetected until eight months after my son, Korey Francis, took his life. Yes, mold can do that to you. Many articles have been written on that subject... https://www.survivingmold.com/community/mary-ackerley-the-brain-on-fire-the-role-of-toxic-mold-in-triggering-psychiatric-symptoms
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/holistic-psychiatry/201708/mold-toxicity-common-cause-psychiatric-symptoms
It was at that time I smelled mildew behind the washing machine on the first floor. I asked the housing authority's own maintenance for an air test as we have been sick for so long without any answers. When they looked behind the washer, there was indeed black mold. I convinced them to do an air test, got a falsified result on one and a letter telling us to move so that said mold could be abated. I did have renter's insurance that would not help in any way, nor did the housing authority, despite a common law called displacement costs. I didn't put the mold there, we did nothing wrong. By law they should have paid our costs to move and to decontaminate our items. We moved an hour away and that home was inspected by a different housing authority, also in PA. It was beautiful and big enough for our foster son to return to us. Within ten months, the entire first floor was covered in black mold. I got another air test and this type of mold could have killed my daughter quite rapidly. The worst part was in her room. Again, no assistance was offered to us. Our health was such that the environmental doctor advised us to move west where it is dry.
Well, we did that, and are still quite ill and homeless to this day. It is a long road to recovery if you recover at all. https://www.poison.org/articles/2011-oct/mold-101-effects-on-human-health We have not yet had a chance to grieve my son or the family we once had. Friends and family are all gone now. I guess homelessness is like a disease. We have taken in and helped many over the years, but our cries for help have gone unanswered.
The shelters we have stayed in have been horrific, to say the least. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2017/08/06/sl-co-mayor-ben-mcadams-posed-as-a-homeless-person-for-3-days-and-2-nights-heres-what-he-saw/ https://pacevegas.com/2019/01/shade-tree-worker-holds-hostage-rapes-woman-staying-shelter/
Sleeping on the streets in Las Vegas was incredibly terrifying. This is where we stayed in the summer heat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evbtJ6RmQPM&t=43s . My daughter and I both are struggling every day to keep going. Sleep, medicines and an end to constant fear, a home with a lock is what we pray for every day. We met many people along the way that if not for them, we would not have survived. They were also homeless. I pray they have found a way home. Don't assume that people are homeless because they choose it or refuse services that simply don't exist. Our Doctor recommended we move to dry climate. Oh and the help from the Housing Authority that started this nightmare.....erased us off the computer and took away any chance of housing assistant. Yes they left us in the desert. I don't know about you but I can't do this anymore.
From weeks to months to years, your life just becomes about survival. We need treatment, medicine, and none of them are covered by insurance. Most of all, we need a home. We'd even be happy in an RV. Just a place to call our own. It would be a dream to see my daughter attend school and living the normal life she longs for. When your home succumbs to toxic mold, you lose it all, including your son's ashes. Everything becomes poisonously contaminated. I am grateful for the photos on the internet, they are all we have of our past life.
My son passed away over five years ago, a large part of us died with him. Please help up us get back up. My daughter is a brilliant graphic and video editor and I have been a professional artist for over 45 years with a very successful shop I was an international accessory and jewelry designer. From Fashion Week to in the Streets all due to illness from mold.
It is so medically necessary that we fine a place to land. Five years has been far too long and we are really at the end of the line. We did rebuild my website, http://www.marellecouture.com/ acquired a few supplies and reopened my shop with no guarantee of a place to be or any idea where we are going. I have will and faith and am counting on a miracle.
Love and a Miracle
After a massive open-heart procedure, I moved to a small town to recover in Pennsylvania. It was there I started and toured the Hopscotch Hands-On Exhibit for the Blind. Around 2005 we moved into a home owned by the housing authority of that county. About a year after living there. I became bed-ridden and began an endless decade of testing, surgeries, and many many specialists. My children also became very ill during that time.
It all came down to mold. I kept the home clean, there was no evidence or odor. It grew within the walls and began to buckle the flooring in the first-floor bathroom. This invisible poison went undetected until eight months after my son, Korey Francis, took his life. Yes, mold can do that to you. Many articles have been written on that subject... https://www.survivingmold.com/community/mary-ackerley-the-brain-on-fire-the-role-of-toxic-mold-in-triggering-psychiatric-symptoms
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/holistic-psychiatry/201708/mold-toxicity-common-cause-psychiatric-symptoms
It was at that time I smelled mildew behind the washing machine on the first floor. I asked the housing authority's own maintenance for an air test as we have been sick for so long without any answers. When they looked behind the washer, there was indeed black mold. I convinced them to do an air test, got a falsified result on one and a letter telling us to move so that said mold could be abated. I did have renter's insurance that would not help in any way, nor did the housing authority, despite a common law called displacement costs. I didn't put the mold there, we did nothing wrong. By law they should have paid our costs to move and to decontaminate our items. We moved an hour away and that home was inspected by a different housing authority, also in PA. It was beautiful and big enough for our foster son to return to us. Within ten months, the entire first floor was covered in black mold. I got another air test and this type of mold could have killed my daughter quite rapidly. The worst part was in her room. Again, no assistance was offered to us. Our health was such that the environmental doctor advised us to move west where it is dry.
Well, we did that, and are still quite ill and homeless to this day. It is a long road to recovery if you recover at all. https://www.poison.org/articles/2011-oct/mold-101-effects-on-human-health We have not yet had a chance to grieve my son or the family we once had. Friends and family are all gone now. I guess homelessness is like a disease. We have taken in and helped many over the years, but our cries for help have gone unanswered.
The shelters we have stayed in have been horrific, to say the least. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2017/08/06/sl-co-mayor-ben-mcadams-posed-as-a-homeless-person-for-3-days-and-2-nights-heres-what-he-saw/ https://pacevegas.com/2019/01/shade-tree-worker-holds-hostage-rapes-woman-staying-shelter/
Sleeping on the streets in Las Vegas was incredibly terrifying. This is where we stayed in the summer heat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evbtJ6RmQPM&t=43s . My daughter and I both are struggling every day to keep going. Sleep, medicines and an end to constant fear, a home with a lock is what we pray for every day. We met many people along the way that if not for them, we would not have survived. They were also homeless. I pray they have found a way home. Don't assume that people are homeless because they choose it or refuse services that simply don't exist. Our Doctor recommended we move to dry climate. Oh and the help from the Housing Authority that started this nightmare.....erased us off the computer and took away any chance of housing assistant. Yes they left us in the desert. I don't know about you but I can't do this anymore.
From weeks to months to years, your life just becomes about survival. We need treatment, medicine, and none of them are covered by insurance. Most of all, we need a home. We'd even be happy in an RV. Just a place to call our own. It would be a dream to see my daughter attend school and living the normal life she longs for. When your home succumbs to toxic mold, you lose it all, including your son's ashes. Everything becomes poisonously contaminated. I am grateful for the photos on the internet, they are all we have of our past life.
My son passed away over five years ago, a large part of us died with him. Please help up us get back up. My daughter is a brilliant graphic and video editor and I have been a professional artist for over 45 years with a very successful shop I was an international accessory and jewelry designer. From Fashion Week to in the Streets all due to illness from mold.
It is so medically necessary that we fine a place to land. Five years has been far too long and we are really at the end of the line. We did rebuild my website, http://www.marellecouture.com/ acquired a few supplies and reopened my shop with no guarantee of a place to be or any idea where we are going. I have will and faith and am counting on a miracle.
Love and a Miracle
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Marelle Couture
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Salt Lake City, UT
