I am very sad to report that I have had some seriously bad news this past two weeks. Many of you know my family and I moved into a temporary living arrangement in town here (Nashville) in July 2002. What seemed to be a good move for a short time became nightmare on Elm Hill Pike. My wife (disabled with scleraderma, fibromyalgia, and reynauds phenomenon) was showing no serious signs of her previously diagnosed illnesses when we moved in. Our baby daughter was 2 at the time, and my wifes son was 13. I had never suffered sinus, or allergy infection, and neither had the children. Many of you know that we started the PedalSteel.us Magazine, and many know that due to illness in our family, it became stopped. Here is what I didn't know until only a few weeks ago. The laundry chemicals that are produced (by cleaning all of the hotels linens, cleaning towels, and bathroom and sink towels) in the "house laundry room" located directly beneath our bedroom.... that vented outside right into (actually about a foot away from) our bedroom air unit, had serious leaks. It is a gas dryer system with three older commercial machines. And the walls that held it are loaded with Black Mold (like the man from Montana on CNN last night) and was filling our lungs every night for the past several years, without our knowledge. I have been to the emergency room myself numerous times, and our little girl has been into the ER as well. Last thursday, my wife, myself, and our daughter all went in an ambulance to ER, after already being to our doctor only two days earlier, and being told we needed to change rooms. The hotel only changed rooms for one night for us, and the following day demanded payment for all of the rooms. (We are in a two bedroom managers apartment suite, and the only other rooms that they have in the hotel are one bedroom units.) They also wanted cash again if we were intending to get another night. Needless to say, if they were full up..., but no, they were nearly empty, and didn't care that we had been requesting room change, or better air quality, and even to the point of complaining about the air quality, for over five managers, in only two years and eight months. Each time we had gotten a managers attention, and that manager began to take an honest look at our problem and address it, he would be moved (or fired) and a new manager would come into the situation (usually with a worsened attitude towards us) and we would have to start addressing the problem all over again. Everyone has asked, why didn't you move? Well, the truth is, we have a very small disability income to work off of, and unfortunately, while I and the rest of my family has remained sick continuously since we moved into Studio Plus, it has been impossible to work, or move, or anything. But, you see, when you're sick, you just want to get better. When you get a little better, you want to work (to make money to move) but, if you can't ever get over being sick all of the way, and nobody can tell you why you're sick (except that if you get older and you live in Tennessee) that you might be developing sinus allergies. Well, thay all had me thinking and believing it was true, until the man from the Health Dept. told me that I should check out this website... www.toxic-mold-news.com/
and these links:
toxic_mold/mold.html
toxic_mold/stach.html
right after he told me that I should get an Environmental Engineer to sample the air to
verify his findings. According to the Health Inspector, he suspected we have several kinds of mold (silent killers) including Black Mold. Unfortunately, the corporate manager ordered the Environmental Engineer off the property and told him he could not allow him to sample our air quality to tell us exactly what risks we were up against. Coupled with the laundry chemicals, we've been "paying to be poisened" and not even getting the peppermint on the pillow. I have lived in hotels (while working on the road in bands) most of my early life) and have never known of these kinds of potential for hazardous living conditions. I have honestly believed that I had put my family into a safe (yet very costly) environment. When we all arrived home last Thursday from the hospital (so looking forward to resting-though I first needed to go and get food and the prescriptions filled for the family) instead, I was handed a ten day notice to vacate my lease and be off the premisis. We started to move, but our daughter and my wife weren't doing so well. I put up for a room next door at another hotel, at about twice the cost per night, and continued to move some more of our belongings. (Nobody wants to come over here to help because they all get deathly ill in only a short time -15-30 minutes- and a migraine headache that lasts usually about 3-6 hours after they leave. Though I feel I am close to getting out, I am now near breaking down again. I need strength, and your prayers. An ambulance carried me to the ER once again this past morning (2/17/05) because I couldn't breathe, moving out by myself. With serious hypertension, they thought I was taking drugs, but after talking to my wife and following up on the previous ER report from another hospital, they urged me and the family to go to the Vanderbilt Medical Center Toxicology department. We are going when I get some things straightened out, both financially, and physically finished with our things being moved. This stuff has affected my motor skills, and my thinking. (And some of you all thought I was really a bastart)

I am alone against these big corporate folks. They have lied over and over, telling us that the inspectors, and fire marshal, and health inspector, all have found nothing. I have proof that there are, and in some cases were actually plenty of problems, and we were not safe at all! They have been poisoning me and my family. And yes, it probably is their fault that I was sick and could not get the magazine out to you. And now, they have thrown us out on the street, sick as dogs. Studio Plus Hotel in Nashville, an ESA property has taken over 60K+ in actual CASH MONEY from our family, and that's how they have finished us off - out on the street.
(ESA, a subsidiary of Blackstone-Smith owns Universal Motion Pictures, Enron, and the group of hotel chains called Extended Stay of America, Homestead Suites, Studio Plus and Hometown Studios, not to mention several other major corporations.) I would appreciate any help, especially your prayers, as I expect the battle will get much greater before it gets better. No income, and broke, and sick... but, at least I still have my family, and they seem to be doing somewhat better. Please find it in your heart to keep my family in yours, as we need warm hearts to hold us right now. Life has been very cold here lately. Thank you in advance, and may God bless you.

Sincerely,

Terry Wendt
internet connection is scarse, but none tomorrow - tkw@pedalsteel.us
615-573-0162

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[This message was edited by Terry Wendt on 18 February 2005 at 07:30 PM.]

HOWVER - to borrow a phrae from EVERYONE!!!! -

"...don't start none, won't be none..."

"T" is the one holding the grenade now!!! Where's he going???

rdl

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Bless your heart.

EJL

I am VERY troubled about your situation, and also having been sick myself for several months, since I got a flu in Nashville and it lodged in an ear on the lfught back,
I can FULLY understand the debilitating effects of long term illnesses. And the idsoprentation and effetcts on anormally rational mind

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Unfortunately, the corporate manager ordered the Environmental Engineer off the property and told him he could not allow him to sample our air quality to tell us exactly what risks we were up against.

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Molds and chemical fumes are ABSOLUTELY deadly.

I think the only reason they didn't move you, was THAT would have admited that they had been culpable for long term health violation's.
So therefoer giving to you good amunition to sue.

With your wifes health issues and the little daughter, it would have been VERY sympathetically seen by a jury.

Which means BIG damages... the coprorate attornies no doubt saw that.

One more new bit of info... the manager I originally met, who rented his managers apartment to us in July 2002 stopped over at the hotel we are now staying at next door. He quit about three months after we moved in, so he could go to manage the Gibson Showcase Music Store at Opry Mills, and his name is Keary Jordan. He said that as soon as he and his family moved out of the same apartment we were living in, their sinus troubles and bronchial troubles eventually cleared up. The only real difference was that the black mold was not prevelant then to add to the laundry chemical toxins, and his wife didn't suffer an auto-immune disease, and he didn't have an infant/toddler living in that situation for nearly three years. Again, that is why I am asking for your prayers. For those who care not to pray for us, God Bless you anyway, and for the rest, thank you so very much, as I do believe and know that prayers make the biggest difference of anything.

Count me in, the minute I read your article I wanted to send you money but Im broke too at the moment and sorry to say prayers is all I got for you and your family for now but I do think the Good Lord will smile at you and yours soon. Hope things improve and I'm thankful that Bobbe Seymour has helped you with a good attorney and I hope he (your attorney) has righteous wrath as most of us probably do..

Sincerely,

Best Regards,

Again, thank you for your prayers, all of you and for all of them.

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Terry, I too feel for you and your family in this situation. Sometimes, if you can get the news media involved, they can bring this type of problem to the attention of someone that can help. Most newspapers and TV stations have a "Troubleshooter" that can work on your behalf.

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Here is the laundry vent (freshly patched) that passes directly under the headboard of our bed (located exactly where the patch in the dryer vent exhaust pipe is):

Here is the carpet flooring above the leak and over a bit nearer the wall HVAC unit in our apartment unit, right where the ductwork exits the outside of the building:

Here is the vent that takes in the ??fresh??? air in our bedroom window (about two feet from our dryer vent exhaust), also located directly above the carpet mold on the floor by our bed:

If we want any air to keep the heat off our room, we were using a fan offered by the hotel to put into the window in our sons bedroom. We could then draw the natural gas fumes off of the soffit ventilation, mixed with the BLACK MOLD growing in the wall where the roof was leaking. I complained about it numerous times, but the management and the maintenence man thought repeatedly that it was the HVAC leaking. Oh Well, now the BLACK MOLD has been there for some time, and we have been drinking it with the laundry chemicals all night:

It still has us hoping we all heal, and not continue feeling as we have for a long while. I pray God has mercy on the world. Thanks again everyone for your prayers. They are keeping us alive, literally.

Sincerely,
Terry Wendt

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Sincerely,
Terry Wendt

My family thanks everyone for their prayers and well wishes.

Discredit you and tie up you very limited funds, so that both can't be used against them...

That's exactly what I believe is happening. When I (out of curiosity) asked today, "what will it take to settle this?" I was told, basically, that I had to drop my thoughts about (and agree in writing that I, or anyone from my family, will never) bring a counter suit against them. Kinda smells like a smoking gun? We aren't even well yet

help.........