Daniel and Thidaporn battling CIRS (Mold illness)

STORY AND DIAGNOSIS

Hello, after suffering for the past 5 years Daniel has finally been diagnosed with CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome), toxic encephalopathy (Brain Inflammation), immune system dysfunction, endocrine system dysfunction, toxic optic neuropathy among many other diagnoses.

Daniel, unfortunately, developed this illness due to chronic exposure to the interior of a water-damaged building which had mold and mycotoxins present which sickened Daniel incredibly. This is an invisible illness..

CIRS and the extensive symptoms are Daniel's body's response to the chronic mold exposure. It has affected every system in his body and unfortunately caused brain damage which will most likely be permanent. We are not sure how much brain matter will be lost until he gets out of this toxic environment to heal. His former great health and entire life has been taken from him and completely torn apart. I am coming to the community publicly to ask for financial assistance in this horribly traumatic, life-altering and potentially life-threatening illness and the life event it has caused. Daniel wanted to say this to everyone, "Without GOD and Jesus Christ, I would not be alive right now." If you have been moved by his story and would like to assist in his rehabilitation in Daniel's health and journey back to life, please consider contributing by making a donation, everything is appreciated. Thank you.

Unfortunately, life does not wait for you when] an unexpected and serious illness and or life event happens, especially when it debilitates and cripples your seemingly perfect health and normal functioning life prior. We appreciate your donation, emotional support, gracious efforts, and prayers to help us get out of this situation. Thank you for taking the time to read Daniel's story. Above is a video he made entitled, "My life before and after mold hell and mycotoxin poisoning." If left in the exposure and untreated medically, his health will go from debilitating to life-threatening. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has plagued us during these last 3 years and 6 months, the amount of psychological stress and burden placed on Daniel has been nothing short of insurmountable. From the brain damage, the mold toxins have caused, the symptomatology and the lifestyle he has been forced to endure have burned his nervous system and have essentially caused his body to be in flight or fight 24/7.

THE COST OF MOLD ILLNESS

With this illness, we have lost everything; we have had to continually grieve the loss of our lives in a way, as we have lost our former selves entirely, our life savings, our income, our normal lives, careers, our peace of mind, our physical and mental health, our dignity. Our belongings which we have been without as they are all in storage since October 2022 because of being contaminated, must be cleaned and or potentially replaced. Many of our possessions are truly irreplaceable. Daniel felt his best, most confident, was his freest, most independent, and felt like a man before this illness devastated his life. He went from the freest to now being a prisoner in his own body and the most suffocated he had ever been. To go from always feeling great, free as a bird and never suffocated to always feeling like hell, being so sick and completely isolated and suffocated 24/7 is just too much of a psychological and physical burden to bear. I want to share with you what he is suffering from, how severely it has impacted his and our life and why I made this fundraiser.

WHY DO WE NEED ASSISTANCE AND HOW THE FUNDS WILL BE USED

We need financial help to rebuild our lives. This includes everything we have lost because of this illness. Some of the many things we need to do are, test another home and if safe, move into it. If not, we must keep testing and the costs get expensive. I need to first and foremost, get him into a safe home to give his body the best chance to positively respond to the treatments. Everything that we own is contaminated from mold and mycotoxin exposure so it must be cleaned before we bring it into the next home to not contaminate it. We can no longer afford the expense of paying monthly for the unit that stores our contaminated belongings. We are FORCED to do this because everything we own needs to be cleaned properly. The expenses and costs because of this illness and the life event it has caused are insurmountable. We have spent everything we have, our life savings on expenses for living, medical treatment, home mold inspections, and much more since moving into this place. The gracious funds will go to help: He needs to be in a home that is healthy, safe and fit for occupancy. To do that we need to test the home before, he needs to get the diagnosis and treatment. The rest of the funds will go to living expenses, cleaning of our damaged items and/or replacement and anything else that we may need. Daniel has not worked since AUGUST 2020. Everything is piling up and has been for years and we cannot handle it anymore. We are asking for financial assistance to attempt to rebuild our lives in a somewhat dignified and decent matter. I want you to know that Daniel was an extremely able, determined, and productive human being. Not just in his fitness and overall health but in everything he did.

BEFORE MOLD AND MYCOTOXIN POISONING:

Daniel is 35 years old and has been living a nightmare that he is unable to wake up from for the past 5 years... before this illness came and completely turned his health, life, and existence upside down, he was a very happy, carefree, enthusiastic, loving, and passionate person about everything and everyone he loved. He was an outgoing, sociable, healthy person who always saw the best in people and life. Someone who saw enjoyment in every little thing he did in his life and was always happy, unlike any other person I have ever met. He truly appreciated everything and everyone. Daniel was extremely healthy, a very high-level multi-sport athlete, athletic personal trainer, martial artist, Vegan, amateur plant-based chef, animal rights activist, R&B singer, dancer, actor, and model. He loves film and photography as well. He was one who never smoked, did drugs or drank and always felt good.

Daniel has always been very close to the women in his life, especially his mother and two grandmothers. Daniel's grandmother went to be with the lord years ago after developing Ovarian Cancer. His mother also developed stage 4 Ovarian Cancer and went to be with the lord back in December of 2013. He would visit his mother every day for hours and was by her side until the morning she died while he was next to her. He was also heavily involved in his other grandmother's life and would visit her every day, usually multiple times a day since high school. He finally left for California to pursue his dream and after only 6 short months decided to return to Illinois as his grandmother's dementia had rapidly progressed. He put the dream he held in his heart for half of his life on hold to be near his grandmother once again. Daniel called it, "This is my mission from God right now, my assignment, I can always go back to California and live my dream." He went to the nursing home nearly every day and sometimes twice a day. He would spend hours there, spending time with her, feeding her puree food and just being by her side. He had to stop visiting her as his illness forced him to. Daniel has not been able to see his grandmother since December 2019. This has been heartbreaking and extremely traumatic for him as he has seen his grandmother nearly every day his whole life other than the 6 months he was in California. His dream for the last 15 years was to use his passion for music, singing, dancing, and acting to become the successful singer, dancer, and actor he knows he is to make a positive impact on the world. He wants to use his prominence to be in a position where he could help the causes that are so dear to his heart. Some examples are, (Animal rights and welfare such as abolishing factory farming, puppy mills, the fur industry and preventing animal abuse of all kinds, human welfare such as domestic violence, acid attack victims and preventing and abolishing all violence to animals and humans overall.) Daniel is very against the violence of all kinds and believes we should all love God, Jesus Christ, ourselves first, each other, the animals and the planet. As a follower of Jesus Christ, Daniel's heart was to try to help and heal anyone, anywhere, anytime from suffering and pain. He loves people and animals and has the heart to please GOD. This illness has destroyed his prior elite-level fitness and excellent health, sidelined his career, and goals, lost his enjoyment, passions, and ability to help himself, his family, society, and the world and negatively changed his whole life. It has been so destructive it has taken him out of the game of life and forcibly put him on the bench of life.

AFTER MOLD AND MYCOTOXIN EXPOSURE: Completely debilitated with his entire life STOLEN from him...In the past 5 years, his health has deteriorated quickly and almost entirely... After moving into AN UNHEALTHY PLACE and getting rear-ended three times, his health has rapidly declined. Everything that he knew in this life has been stripped from him. With his peace of mind, enjoyment, independence, confidence, heart, soul, ability to relax, his ability to do almost anything for himself, he cannot even shower more than twice a month. He has over 150 symptoms and has been eating a puree and sometimes, liquid diet for over 2 years, since February 2021 to be exact. Due to his gastrointestinal system being heavily impaired. It is believed he has suffered at least 3 TBIs (Traumatic Brain Injuries) as he got rear-ended 3 times within 4 months and was living in an environment with mold and mycotoxins constantly causing damage to his brain, but no one knew. It is almost 5 years since he first moved into that condo and he is still suffering brain damage as he is unable to move and live in an environment that is not killing him. He has become pretty much bedridden, and his life has been completely debilitated. Please help get us through this living hell that has caused his quality of life to go from above excellent and unremarkable, to someone who is disabled, in our opinion. He is unable to do almost everything, unable to cope with daily life, is living a disabled type of life, his dreams are on hold and are not able to live a normal life and function normally. He is uncomfortable constantly as he is always highly symptomatic. It is pretty sad when you go from feeling good and healthy 24/7 to feeling like you are dying 24/7. Daniel came back to Illinois in 2015 to be by his grandmother as he would see her every day as he felt it was, "God's work" that he was doing and "My Mission." He has completed that and now endured almost 5 years of absolute hell and torture since moving into this condo. We are currently desperately and tirelessly trying to get money immediately to pay for testing this home, and the next home, get treatment, rebuild and resume our lives. We have found a credentialed, able and diligent physician who can diagnose, treat and heal him from this poison that has forcefully invaded his brain, body, heart, and his entire life and changed it 100%. Please help him recover by donating any portion to help him get the treatment he so badly needs so that he can once again live out a normal, healthy life AND pursue the Dream THAT GOD PUT IN HIS HEART.

• Daniel is suffering from CIRS which causes brain damage and a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in itself.

• Daniel suffered 3 traumatic brain injuries in 2019 from getting rear-ended 3 times in succession, within 4 months. This is damaging as the brain does not have time to heal before another injury, he suffered another assault on the brain without rest.

• Daniel suffered a brain injury from chronic mold and mycotoxin exposure. He and I are still in it as we cannot afford to move. This is ongoing as he is still in a toxic environment and financially unable to get out of it. Because of that, he has suffered at least 3 traumatic brain injuries and the exposure has lasted nearly 5 years and is causing constantly more damage.

• Daniel is bed bound 95% of his day and has been for the last 2 years for sure but this illness is progressive and hard to explain. He has been losing mobility and overall function since 2018/2019 slowly but he and none of the doctors knew why, it puzzled everyone. He had such a health reserve thank God.

• Has been unable to work and has a total loss of income since August 2020

• Has been eating a purée diet since February 2021

• Is tortured by 190 symptoms a day

• Is hardly able to move around and function due to how highly symptomatic he is and the damage this illness has caused to his brain and entire body.

• Can only shower a handful of times per month.

• Has lost all ability to do almost everything he loves, all of his passions.

• Has pretty much been completely isolated other than by me, with no socialization when he was an extremely social man before this illness.

• Daniel has had immense trauma including psychological, emotional, financial and physical trauma. From all the trauma in all of those categories he has suffered since moving into the condo has been overwhelming. In and out of the ER multiple times a week, nobody believed him regarding his health and acting like it was all in his head and he was creating the symptoms, having to deal with all of the chronic symptoms and the progression of them and the illness, the loss of himself, loss of privacy, loss of independence, loss of dignity, loss of meaning, loss of relaxation, loss of identity, loss of peace of mind, loss of socialization, loss of sex, lots of fun, loss of exercise, loss of earning a living, loss of purpose, loss of living pain-free, loss of living free

• All of the responsibilities he has from the physical toll it takes on the mind and body to keep up with this illness and how detrimental it is to the utter deterioration of his health, to researching everything for years to speaking thousands of hours over the phone to move our lives forward shows what strength he has. He has to do all of this for 5 years while getting sicker and sicker.

• He has been in all work-no-play mode for 5 years and unfortunately for him, he is working metaphorically speaking, “100 hours a week with no pay, benefits or a sense of accomplishment for 5 years.”

• To from a very high quality of life and health to so low you are unable to function is very traumatizing.

• Has not been inside of any type of store, event or anything other than maybe a few times in the last 3 years when he was able and loved to go to places every day.

I have been forced to resign from my career of 21 years in the social services field, back in October of 2021 to become Daniel’s full-time caregiver. He is, unfortunately, unable to do almost everything he used to do and everything that normal people do. Let me ask you if I may.... how would you feel if everything you loved to do including the things that we all take for granted such as getting up normally, having the ability to earn an income, taking care of your hygiene normally, taking a shower, eating food, exercising, enjoying recreation, hobbies, socializing, working out, dating, intimacy...how would you feel that you are too fatigued to hug your loved ones? Too sick to pretty much do everything we take for granted. How would you feel if the ability to do all of those things were removed one day and it has progressively gotten worse and worse over the past five years? To make matters worse my mother died in July 2021 in which I had to go back home to Thailand to take care of the funeral procession and make arrangements for everything while grieving and taking care of Daniel at the same time from overseas. To say it has been more than overwhelming is an understatement. We have lost everything; both of our careers, wages, savings, opportunities, and enjoyment as well as money spent on everything that this illness has caused. Including but not limited to all the searching we did for doctors before he was able to find out what was causing his mystery illness, since the beginning until now it is estimated to have cost us nearly $500,000. However, this is not accounting for life opportunities that are not measurable in terms of numbers or money. Such as my career, and Daniel's career aspirations in music, dancing and acting both in the theater on stage and in the entertainment industry.

Here is Daniel's full symptomology below;

Unable to shower frequently, normally or regularly. The shower completely crashes me afterward.

Forced to eat a majority puree/liquid diet daily since February 2021, for over two years and 5 months.

Extreme difficulty and trouble swallowing.

Low saliva (dry mouth)

Unable to project voice and weak voice

Change in both my tone, pitch and quality speaking and singing voice.

Forced to constantly urinate in bottles and on myself.

Forced to wear the same clothes every day due to how sick and tired I am. Also, everything we own is contaminated and in storage.

I have constant GI disturbances

Stomach discomfort

Indigestion

Heartburn

IBS

Nausea

LPR reflux

Acid reflux

Throat pain

Post nasal drip

Stuffed up noise

Cricopharyngeal Spasm: A Troubling Feeling of a Lump in the Throat

Constant choking sensations 24/7

Cluster, tension and all types of Headaches

Neck pain and tension

Back pain

Migraines

Inner head pressure

Outer head pressure

Pulsing head sensations

Sinus pain and pressure

Brain zaps

Restlessness all over makes you feel like you have to move your body.

Pre-Trigeminal Neuralgia type symptoms sharp and stabbing pain in my face.

Intense Itching, buzzing, crawling sensations and numbness all over my face, ears in and out, scalp and neck.

Teeth have a metal feeling to them

Teeth pain and soreness

Nerve pain sharp and stabbing in teeth.

Bad breath

White lesion spots on teeth

Receding and bleeding gums

Acne

Red rashes

Reddish skin seems to look like Rosacea

Shocks on face

Facial ticks and spasms

Body spasms

Allodynia

Cold hands and fingers

Cold feet and toes

Warm hands with blood pooling feeling

Warm feet with blood pooling feeling

Red hands

Red feet

Burning hands

Burning feet

Burning body skin

Burning face

Butterflies in the stomach (Not in a good way)

Inability to push through challenges and stress.

Horrific trigger points all over my body, head and face.

TMJD

Ear pain

BBPV I believe

Ear pressure

Sensitive to noises, sounds especially loud.

Scalp hair loss

Facial hair loss

Graying hair

Graying facial hair

Weight loss

Overall face skin color loss

High blood pressure

Vertigo

Dizziness

Lightheartedness

Constant hypoglycemia within every 2 hours.

Having to get up slowly whenever moving in the slightest position, makes life incredibly difficult.

POTS PERHAPS SUBCLINICAL I BELIEVE ALTHOUGH HAVE NOT BEEN DIAGNOSED FORMALLY BUT HAVE THE THE EXACT SAME SYMPTOMATOLOGY.

Unable to lift hands in the air much as it is very uncomfortable. I am not sure if it is due to POTS or potential thoracic outlet syndrome but I have to keep my hands close to my body. For example, I cannot lie down and put my hands in the air while looking at my phone, they will burn and feel 1000 lbs.

Autonomic nervous system dysfunction

Hyper-vigilance

Neuropathic pain

Blurry vision

Feeling faint

Chest pain

Tachycardia

Extremely heavy/pounding heartbeat

Heart palpitations.

Ectopic heartbeats.

Can always feel my heart.

Because of the illness affecting my brain, how traumatizing all of this has been, having to navigate everything alone and all of the cardiac symptoms that no doctor could give me any answer to, I unfortunately developed very bad cardiophobia.

Feeling and seeing a heartbeat in throat

Heartbeat causing a cough

Chest tightness

Chest heaviness

Chest pain (Costochondritis) heart attack pain.

Solar plexus tightness and pain

Shortness of breath/Air Hunger

Easily out of breath over the smallest exertion.

Heat intolerance

Cold intolerance

Cannot go outside if too hot or humid. If it is both hot and humid then I must stay inside in AC.

Crash in sun within minutes, hands and fingers feel hot within minutes and overall body and hands as well.

In winter time my feet and hands feel frozen within minutes but the overall body feels cold.

Complete exercise intolerance

Complete temperature dysregulation

Feels and looks like blood pooling in hands and feet, they both get purple I believe due to POTS.

Orthostatic hypertension

Horrible cramping in my legs

Heaviness in my lower legs

Leg and calf pain warmness

Restless legs

(BVD) binocular vision dysfunction

Chronic fatigue

Frequent yawning

Arm pain and numbness, potential thoracic outlet syndrome

Memory fog

Forgetfulness

Anger spells angry very easily

Overstimulated feeling on edge more sensitive to everything. Things hit you more intensely.

Overloaded and overwhelmed

Sensitivity to emotions can’t get too sad, mad, sexually excited nothing as my body will feel like it is going to collapse.

Sensitivity to stimulation

Feeling fragile

Rage

High irritability

Constant talking

Ranting with anger or without

Trouble coping with stress

Frustration

Intrusive thought

Worry

Paranoia

Overwhelmed

Nervousness

Social anxiety

General anxiety

Mood changes quickly

Disorientation

Confusion

Insomnia

Night sweats

Tremors

Numbness and tingling face and body

Sleep issues

Joint pain

Skin pain

Tendon pain

Bone pain

Spine pain

Muscle stiffness, tension, pain and spasms all over the face, tongue, eyes, body etc.

Difficult to recover from anything physical or psychological.

Feeling that life is passing me by

Energy crash over nothing sometimes but especially if I use emotions

Low libido

Low testosterone

muscle atrophy

Midsection fat gain

Body aches

Lethargy

Extra lack of energy especially in the first half of the day. Extremely dizzy, stiff body and joints, headache, sweaty, cold, tachycardic in the morning probably due to dehydration.

Sensitive to smells and especially all chemicals.

Food allergies

Food intolerances

Pinkish/purplish fingernails

Pinkish/purplish toenails

Tendency to tremble under any fearful or not even normally fearful situation.

Tachycardia under scary situations that I would not have had before.

Excessive thirst

Excessive Urination

Weak urination stream

Takes a long time to start urinating

Constipation

Dry skin

Slow-healing wounds and acne

Inability to remember and recollect thoughts sometimes

Adrenaline rushes

Fibromyalgia

Tightness and Inflexibility

Eye stain, soreness and pain especially on eyeballs and sockets.

Decreased night vision

Sensitivity to all light and brightness both sun and indoor light, phone, tv, laptop etc.

Eye floaters

Eye fatigue and heaviness

Difficultly focusing eyes near and far. Scrolling on computer screen and tv is near impossible.

Depersonalization

Derealization

Loss of motivation, drive and competitive edge. Hard for me as I was always a very healthy, high level, multi sport athlete and martial artist.

Hypersensitivity to everything physical and psychological.

Chronic exhaustion

Slow recovery from all stressors whether it be nutritional, psychological, emotional or physical.

Thank you for reading my complete list of symptoms the devil brought my way, please help me get my amazing health and life back.

Daniel is a very composed and extremely disciplined person. We are trying to get my story out there via news, podcasts, interviews to share my message to raise awareness, create exposure on this illness to prevent others from suffering as I have and unfortunately, still am. I would like to share my testimony on how God and Jesus Christ have got me through, made me stronger, built more of a strong will, determination, and character in me. I know he has a purpose for me, my life, and although this event when isolated is not good, that it will be for my good. Thank you.

Daniel G. I

God bless you

HERE IS DANIEL BEFORE THE ILLNESS STOLE HIS HEALTH AND HIS LIFE. WHEN HE WAS HEALTHY, HAPPY, ENJOYING LIFE, EXTREMELY ABLE AND PURSUING HIS LIFE AND DREAMS.

Daniel with his mother when she was dying of Ovarian cancer in Hospice.

Daniel with his grandmother who developed dementia, Daniel would visit her daily. Daniel saw his mother and grandmother everyday since he was young. Daniel was in California pursing his music dream and left California after 6 months as her dementia got bad, she was moved into a nursing home and Daniel would go see her everyday just like when she lived at home and in her own place. Daniel for the first time in his life has been unable to see her since January 2020 because of how immunocompromised she is and he is, it is very traumatic and heartbreaking for Daniel to not be able to see her.

Daniel in the studio, singing and making music, his passion.

AFTER MOLD AND MYCOTOXIN POISONING

Another blood test

Mold rashes

This is how I would shower hardly once a month due to my inability to stand well.

Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT test)

Walking on a test to see if I need oxygen

Allergy testing

Allergy testing revealing what I am allergic to

At the Ear Nose and Throat Dr because of how this illness has affected my vocal cords, my swallowing and all the symptoms in my throat and voice. He found inflammation evident in my vocal cords as well, this is very traumatizing to me as I worked very hard multiple hours a day, everyday for over 10 years, honing my voice, I was very happy with my speaking voice as well as my singing voice. Also because, I always took very good care of my voice, like the rest of my body and dedicated my life to my craft, becoming a professional recording, performing and touring R&B singer, dancer and actor.

Ambulance called again

Testicle ultrasound

Echocardiogram

Emergency Room again

Another late night in the Emergency Room

X-Ray of my lungs

Have such blurry vision, one eye vision has gotten much worse, horrible eye pain, light sensitivity and many more visual symptoms. I have also been diagnosed with Toxic Optic Neuropathy (Eye inflammation).

Respiratory physical therapist

Trigger point therapy

Rashes

Swollen eye

more rashes

Thidaporn getting her initial blood test to check for CIRS

If you have made it this far into reading our story and cause, we really appreciate you and your time, thank you so much.

God bless you