Around Thanksgiving time last year a "friend" who hasn't been much of a friend essentually railroaded me into letting her keep her things here. The woman moved in the middle of the night from Florida to Texas, with two small children in tow. She used to be such a close friend but I am sad to say she has turned into your typical "Meth Mom". At any rate she dropped off enough items to completely fill an entire room after I said, " No I don't think so". Shows up out of the blue, I felt terrible for saying no..etc. SO, she ends up leaving back to Florida a week later and leaves all her things here telling me she will return for it in two weeks. It seems her mother was scheduled for emergency open-heart surgery. Well, allegedly she get's caught with weapons (knives) on the bus and according to greyhound bus lines, it is a felony; but because she had two small children, they decide to let her continue the extra hour home with her children. They kept the knives.
About three days later Greyhound contacts her and they proceed to feed her with a line that if she would like to come claim her property etc... It turns out she was arrested on the spot and spend a week and a half in jail before she could bond out. Leaving her mother with her children, and unable to have her emergency surgery.
She rescheduled. So the woman in question is out of jail for about five days when she is arrested again. She collect calls me from jail to tell me she was busted with anhydrous and copped an intent to manufacture charge. Now, to my understanding, that alone is 24yrs?? (can anyone confirm that?) After finding that out, she contacts me again via collect call from jail and tells me she also was busted with 14grams of meth and in a stolen vehicle. At this point, I am thinking... okay, damn..you are fucked. For some reason she was really cool and almost delusional about it. I assume it is the drugs. I have no idea.
So, like I said, I figure she is going to be there for quite some time. I decided that I am not a storage shelter and I have had her items for far longer than 90 days, and I just have no room in my home because of her things. I would have put them in the shed, but again... no room. So I went through her things and kept things like her childrens' birth certificatesbut beyond that- the poor thing literally brought me garbage.
One bag was a 30 gallon black trashbag with literal garbage in it. empty bottles, food bags etc.
Now, I basically told you that to tell you this...
I have been insanely sick for the last 6 months or more. Symptoms including dizziness, nosebleeds, coughing and congestion, spontaneous rashes, nausea and anemia. I absolutely could not figure out what my problem was... So as I am cleaning her things out of my back room. I come across a bag of old toys that had obviously been rained on and they were moldy and mildewed - I never smelled the bag, but when I opened it... I am telling you the smell about knocked me on my ass. I had to haul ass to the ladies-with my hand over my mouth, it literally smelled like decaying bodies. upon throwing it out and getting rid of it, I realized I was feeling much better, more energetic, no constant coughing and sneezing...I just had a feeling of general wellness. Me, being me... had to run and Google mold allergy symptoms which are:
Coughing up blood.
Nose bleeds.
Dizziness.
Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Chest congestion.
Difficulty breathing.
Anemia.
Skin rashes.
Forgetfulness and memory loss.
Pulmonary hemorrhage.
Death.
Yeah... I honestly feel lucky, and thankful for once that I can be a raging bitch!
So to conclude, I finished cleaning the rest of her things out with almost nothing salvageable.
A part of me feels terrible and incredibly rude, but it was obviously affecting my health...so what could I really have done?
Tomorrow, I really need to finish getting my things organized and getting things back in an orderly condition. It is a relatively small home, but I am practically a hoarder, so needless to say...I have a lot of organizing to do. I almost feel overwhelmed. Not to mention, I have had the "Lazy Bones" lately.
Well this is Monika signing off...reminding you to live spherically!
