I will be sharing my story from the very beginning here. I will share the before, the during and the after of mold illness (aka CIRS).

I have started this place as a means to document my experience and share it in hopes that if you are suffering from mold illness, you will get help, answers and solutions faster than I did. I am trying to put everything in one place so you can pick through and see if this makes sense for your own journey. If you are here, I am so sorry for what you are going through. As a gentle reminder, I am not a doctor. I am a wife, mom, daughter, sister, friend and sales executive that went from a fit, sound minded, 42 year old woman to a woman that was robbed of her mind and body and left bedridden.

Chronic pain, abdominal pain, blurry vision, stroke like symptoms, blood clots, memory problems, word recall, palpitations, dyspnea, body temperature regulation, urinary frequency, joint pain, insomnia, weakness, disorientation, burning sinuses, neuropathy, nerve damage, paresthesia, brain atrophy, neurological problems and anxiety were all part of my experience.

I was scared, fearful and so so so sick, but worked tirelessly to rule out diagnosis and get to the root cause of my pain and suffering. Through endless doctor visits, ER trips, labs, scans, tests, samples, prescriptions, inaccurate diagnosis, prayer, hopelessness and desperation, I found what was making me so very very sick. I would not accept that “this is just the way I am going to be from now on”. I knew deep in my heart that something(s) was making me sick, this was not just stress, getting older or worse, that I was “crazy” and had health anxiety. I would, by the grace of God, get to the bottom of this… and I did- I am- but damn, this was the darkest season I have faced thus far in my life.

I will share a timeline, symptoms, doctors, therapies, resources, dead ends and recovery details.

I will be sharing interviews with the doctors, practitioners and other mold illness patients in podcast form.

This will continue to evolve , but here I will document and share exactly what I went through, I what I experienced, who I worked with, how I got answers and how I got on the road to recovery.