MOLDed: A Memoir of Loss & Resilience - Paperback

by Carol M. Milberger (Author)

An overnight explosion of toxic mold forces a family from stability into a suspenseful real-life horror story filled with loss, dark humor, and resilience.

An invisible explosion of toxic mold fractures every aspect of a family's once-stable existence. MOLDed chronicles a mom's surreal two-year odyssey of loss, anxiety, and absurdity in a lonely and desperate effort to protect her family's health and fight an unseen enemy destroying their home.

MOLDed is a testament to the human spirit's unwavering resolve. Within these suspenseful pages of horror, survival, and dark humor, you'll walk with a woman who, along with her husband and three children, refused to surrender. As the air thickened with toxic spores, her fierce determination ignited. As her world tilted off its axis, she clung to humor, gratitude, and hope as lifelines to survival and sanity.

Step into her world to breathe damp, heavy air and shoulder the weight of responsibility. MOLDed is an inspirational reminder that resilience flourishes even in the darkest corners.

"Loved it! Her family's experience may well be a wake-up call for others. I highly recommend this well-written, interesting book." ─ Reedsy Discovery

"I'm thankful to Dr. Milberger for taking the time and effort to write this book. This story needs to be heard: it is eerily like what I've heard from so many of our patients. I'm hopeful that the more the evidence grows and the "word gets out." maybe one day soon it will get the attention of the medical community and mold-injured patients will get the respect and proper treatment they deserve." ─ Dr. William J. Weirs, M.D., F.A.A.E.M., Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine

"I'll never look at my bath mat in the same way. Molded is a gripping journey through the horrors that mold visits on a family trapped in a home trying to kill them. Courage and pluck are part of the stops along this thoughtful chronicle of surviving an attack by invisible forces. I kept turning pages and hoping for the rescue that these lovable characters deserved." ─ Ron Seybold, author of Viral Times.

"Dr. Milberger's book shines a light on one of the most under-studied and underappreciated threats to our health and safety at home: mold. We have detectors for everything from tiny leaks to threats like carbon monoxide, but still most of us couldn't identify the symptoms of toxic mold growing in our walls. By the time we know the culprit, it may be too late. Dr. Milberger reveals the threat we too often ignore in her personal, riveting account." ─ Alan Henry, author of Seen, Heard, & Paid.