How safe is the military housing?

Before AC Ducts got cleaned

Here are pictures of the inactive Ac ducts in the rooms and also the cleaned area

And here what my daughter has to take each day now. Before we got here she had to take nothing cause she was healthy.

Is the military housing safe? That is something I am really wondering the last couple of month. We were stationed in Germany, did live off post and it was great. My children were healthy, besides the normal colds every child gets once in a while.

Since September 30th we are stationed in Ft.Hood, TX. We live in military housing on post. Couple days after we got here my daughter Jasmine started coughing. But we thought all she got is a cold. October 18th she still was coughing and it started to sound really bad. We took her to the pediatric. "Allergies" , "This is Texas" were what we was told. Almost every week after that we had to take her in. Not much later I knew it is asthma or should I say I was scared it is. Doctors thought pneumonia and took an xray of her lungs. No pneumonia but signs of asthma on her lungs.

Jasmine is 4years old never had any kind of problems with Asthma. At first we thought maybe the pollen around here but then we started to realize it is ALWAYS inside the house. Outside she is doing great. While she is in Pre K she is doing great.

After calling housing office they cleaned our AC ducts, it is hard to describe how much dirt was in there. The guys which cleaned it said it looks like it didnt get cleaned for years. Now I thought after every family moving out it would be cleaned but guess I was wrong.

We were hoping after this Jasmine would find some relief. Did I mention that out of 5people living in this house, 4 are having health problems?

I looked around the house and my thought is mold. We called the housing office for three month at least, asking and begging for an air quality check. Many times we were told they would give a call back about it. But never did. So my husband kept calling them. At some point Jasmine was at 7 different medications. Still no relief for her, still regular doctor visits. My daughter was a healthy child before the move and now she can not sleep thru the night without having asthma and yes EVERY night. In the morning she has black bags under her eyes, looking like she didn`t sleep for month. Looking likek a real sick child. She coughs up really nasty mucus in the morning. It got the color between dark brown and dark green. her nose is also always stuffed up. She complains often about headaches and pains in arms and legs.

My husband called again and was told he didn`t fill out a form of the hospital which is needed in order to get an air quality check. A form nobody told us about until then. We were told he would stop by our house and bring the form. 5pm that day still no form. Someone told us about ICE , my husband wrote a complaint and within 5minutes after submitting that complaint he got a call. The same night we got the form and apologies. Honestly I thought finally something is going to happen.

But again my husband had to keep calling them and asking for an air quality check. Last week of January, after I read the article in the Army Times about the 11 babies dying in Ft.Bragg i was ready to go wherever I needed to, to finally get something done. I told my husband that I want to talk to the Post Commander about this. He called the people for the test again , telling them what I want to do. They told him that if that is what I would want to do they could not tell me not to do it. But within 24hours we had our air quality test done. Test results will take 7-10days to be back. We still waiting but it should be any day now.

Jasmine still has asthma at this point she is taking steroids again. She is going to have an allergy test done 8th February.

Dorian got sinus problems and a lot of headache inside the house. On bad days he is weezing. He also got a refferal for an allergy testing. We did not get a call yet about it but Monday I will call and ask about that.

My husband got on bad days also weezing. Nose and throat problems inside the house.

I have real bad sinus problems also throat problems. On bad days weezing. In the morning my eyes are super puffy. Only feeling sick inside the house.

All four of us cough up nasty mucus in the morning and all of us feel better outside the house. Which is ackward since I have severe allergies and even the pollen is high I feel better outside than inside the house.

My oldest son Steven seems to be fine, that is what made me move Jasmine inside his room. She is doing better in there but still she has asthma every night. It is heartbreaking for me as a mother.

While waiting on getting this test done one nurse told me about her friend with a small baby. The baby`s room wall had mold on it , she called in and it got painted over it. Like that is going to make the mold less dangerous.

Also we were told on base we would not be able to find a house with any kind of mold. So they know it??? Still they let families move in those houses like this? Aren`t they suppose to provide safe housing for the families?

I started this blog cause I want to, from now on write all down. Hoping also to find more people out there with the same experience. Also I just want to write it down to keep track of all what is going on. There is so much more but too much for only one day to write.