00:00Ida would wake up and she would have cuts all over herself, blood, you name it.
00:04We could have never expected that we would be in this kind of situation.
00:07She was born healthy, skin was clear, everything was normal with her.
00:12It was around four or five months.
00:13It's when she started developing skin issues and she started scratching her forehead, her legs,
00:19and you could see she was leaving scars at night.
00:21Ida would wake up and she would have cuts all over herself, so we had to begin swaddling her.
00:26They couldn't have known this was just the beginning.
00:29And the doctor is saying, oh, you know, she may be slightly anemic and this, that, and
00:35any other.
00:36Most black people are anemic, but anemia is not going to cause you to have your hair fall
00:42out and have severe eczema.
00:45The blood work from the dermatologist showed that my daughter's IEGs were very elevated.
00:50The normal range for a child with eczema is between 100 to 1,000.
00:54My daughter's was at 6,000.
00:56But doctors still refuse to take her condition seriously.
00:59That right there should have been a sign that something is wrong and she doesn't just have
01:04eczema.
01:05So the second time she had blood work done, it went down 1,000 points, which means that
01:10it's coming out of her system, but she's still being affected.
01:13We got another set of blood work done after our second visit with the allergist.
01:17And that blood work was a full mycelotoxin panel and she was tested for all strains of
01:23mold.
01:23That test right there was enough to show that she's allergic to most strains of mold.
01:29But this wasn't the end of the revelations.
01:31The mold was discovered after a process of elimination.
01:35We asked the property management to have the carpets changed and they refused.
01:38So her father decided to get a carpet cleaner.
01:40While he was cleaning the carpets, he discovered black mold was growing behind the furniture in
01:45the shape of the furniture.
01:46They'd found the mold, but their problems were just beginning.
01:50So based off of how the person responded to the mold and the property management, the
01:55likelihood of them just covering the mold up again was a very high probability.
01:59So that was our answer that we had to get up out of there immediately.
02:03So we immediately left, stayed at a hotel, currently going through the process of suing them.
02:08We noticed a difference with the baby.
02:10She is getting better.
02:11Her skin, you know, it's like a win and loss battle.
02:16One day she's good, one day she's not.
02:18But the only time when I can say she's not is when she's scratching and we're all asleep
02:22and we wake up to cuts, blood, you name it.
02:27We've experienced it with her.
02:28Unfortunately, the mold had already done its damage.
02:31What you see now when it comes to her skin is really the scarring from all of those wounds
02:39that were open months ago.
02:41Her legs have completely scarred up.
02:43Her arms have completely scarred up.
02:44It's not like scabbing anymore.
02:45The skin is smooth.
02:47No one knows they're living in a moldy apartment.
02:50And if you do know you're living in a moldy apartment and you choose to stay there, then
02:53that's your fault.
02:54You're doing negligence to yourself and to your family if you have a family there with you.
03:00But we didn't know we were staying in a moldy apartment.
03:02We could have never expected that we would be in this kind of situation.
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