To: The Illinois State House, The Illinois State Senate, Governor J.B. Pritzker, The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Donald Trump
Regulation for healthy mold levels and toxins created by molds
US Navy has guidelines for healthy/unhealthy mold levels. Why doesn’t the CDC or any other part of the government have published guidelines? We need them so people who have mold related illnesses can get the proper treatment, insurance companies cover medical care, homeowners insurance cover damages led to mold problems. People aren’t left literally in the cold with nothing like my family was because of storm damage, insurance neglect, and no regulations of healthy/unhealthy exposures. Need legislation that would give us the same resources as fire victims.
Why is this important?
My family became homeless June 9, 2017. Our roof was damaged in a severe wind/hail storm August 5, 2015. After filing an insurance claim one vehicle was paid and we told roof was fine. After two years of being extremely sick and almost near death we found out why. Water leaked through the damaged roof down the wall cavitatys in our children’s bedrooms. We couldn’t see it, smell it, nor had any idea it was there. After a second claim with the insurance for fungi/bacteria coverage we pay for, begin the longest two years. One engineer who said no active/dormant mold, a second engineer who came up with a completely non related reason and photoshopped the pictures in the report (left the blending tool in a few pictures), we hired our own company. Levels so high that a company do this kind of testing had never seen in twenty five years. The day we became homeless with nothing but the clothes on our backs but finally the answer to our health problems. Not a single community action program, state department, or federal department would help us. Why? No guidelines for unhealthy/healthy mold levels and human health! We were literally left out in the cold paying a mortgage for a home we have watched slowly fall while battling it out! We are no different then fire victims! If there were federal and even state guidelines we could’ve been declared a disaster just like a fire victim and received some gudieance as what or where to go! Instead we’ve been threaten to have our children removed from our care because we live in a camper in our back yard, consistently harrassed by our county officials even trying to do the right thing and obtain a special permit for our camper and to be able to live in it. And failed by every state department that was designed to protect us from situations like this. We must have guidelines and it’s a huge issue all across the nation!