This page was originally posted
on Monday, May 17, 2004, and the first question visitors have
every reason to ask is why yet another web site on mold. The
answer is that despite all the many sites on the web, I feel
I have something original to offer. It is not that any
single idea is new or different, for whatever I know, I have
learned from others or from my own experience, but the way
one sews the pieces together is always new so each tapestry
is different.
I am an author in the field of
holistic medicine and have been brooding over the issue of
mold for a number of years. My purpose is to raise consciousness
surrounding mold, to help people understand both the hazards
of mold as well as its role as a decomposer of living matter. It
is my hope that once people come to understand the risks of
cohabiting with mold that they will take adequate measures
to reduce those risks and recover health and the opportunities
that life has to offer.
As I explain in my
story, the "mold journey" began as a personal
issue, but it rapidly transformed itself into something far
larger. Mold is dangerous, very dangerous. Since
the time of my own first exposure, I have lost a number of
friends to mold-related illnesses. My beloved Akita,
Bhakti, died, probably of mold infection. I have also
lost three parakeets—Snow, Ajna, and Rico—and,
on my recent birthday, one of my sun conures, Mango, died.
Mold is a sad companion. As
the days go on and I find the time to add to this site, I will
tell stories that are happier than my own . . . as well as
some that are even more heart-breaking. I will also try
to show what has helped and what, despite promises, failed
to help to the extent required. I invite you to join
me on the quest for wellness and to share your
own experiences.
Ingrid Naiman 
