NaBloPoMo #12: Moldy Apartment

Symptoms of black mold poisoning. And another list of symptoms.

Why am I posting this as my day’s NaBlo? Because, one month and one week ago, our upstairs neighbors flooded their bathroom. Rather, their children were not properly supervised by the babysitter, turned on the bathtub, and left it running until it flooded their bathroom. The immediate effect of that? It flooded our bathroom. According to G, who was home at the time, water was literally pouring from our ceiling. Maintenance came and tried to dry out the bathroom, and the guy promised to come back and check. Cue now, when they haven’t come back to check. Our bathroom ceiling has leaked one more time since then. We called maintenance then, and they came when only S was home. She didn’t know what was going on, and maintenance was supposed to come back.

Over the last couple of weeks, S, G, and I have had weird stuff going on. G has started falling asleep relatively early and sleeping a lot, I’ve had an extremely hard time waking up (to the point where I don’t hear my alarm at all), and we’ve all been itchy, sneezing, nauseated, vomiting, and missing work. We’ve also all had mental fogginess, and I’ve had muscle pain, with my joints worse than usual, too.

Yesterday, S and I were talking about it. We realized that, hey, it’s gotten worse lately, and only started after the flooding upstairs. Sadly, we’re almost positive now that we have mold in our ceiling (and possibly walls and floor) that are making us sick. Maintenance is supposed to be coming tomorrow, when I have the day off. (S will also be home; she managed to break her arm today.) I’m making sure they look at all those places, as well as checking under our kitchen sink. (Before, our garbage disposal was backed up and leaking. There’s some mold under there, but not very much.)

I just want this fixed, and I want to be compensated as much as possible for missed work and screwed-up health. It’s just plain wrong that it’s going on at all.

Meanly, I also hope upstairs is getting mold spores that are making them sick. Bastards.