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I don’t know who will win the legal shootout that will happen in Hampton Bays schools, but I do know that the students will be the real losers. Lawyers will soon begin the lawsuit process that could threaten the tax base of Hampton Bays.

Because the damage to the school has gone on for so long, with mold allowed to reproduce unchecked for such a long time, it may be now beyond repair. Destruction of the school might be the only cost-effective way to recycle the grounds and salvage some financial benefit for the school district. If that’s the case, then the school needs to be destroyed, before it ruins the learning ability of another student or teacher, before another person becomes ill.

The dust is settling, even before the lawyers and the vultures descend to tear the carcass of what was a good school into pieces. Pieces that even the hyenas wouldn’t eat.

Pat has her grandchildren and her health. Joe still works for a pittance. Eva is home schooling her kids and the Haines family has thought about moving to Fisher’s Island, an island nearby, named for his ancestors. James Havens still doesn’t know where he will go to school next year. Carolyn would not even consider the nightmare of exposing her two younger children to any mold in Hampton Bays schools.

These children, teachers and mothers are Mold Warriors. T hey sacrificed their careers, homes and reputations to fight for a truth they knew: Mold illness is real and it hurts people, damaging their health, sometimes permanently. Denial of mold illness in the face of overwhelming medical evidence by anyone for money or for undefined gain must be stopped.

There will be more mold fights in the months to come. Our academic papers will quickly convince enough medical skeptics willing to read to stop arguing about mold illness and start researching the issue. Experience in day-to-day clinical work will c onvince practicing physicians even faster that the Biotoxin Pathway is easy to use, and is medically and scientifically sound. Using it works, if we catch the illness in time.

For those with mold illness we consider irreversible now, like Carol Anderson, research is in its infancy. Perhaps MSH replacement will be the answer; perhaps a new approach to cytokine cascades is in order. We don’t know yet if erythropoietin or some other therapy as yet unknown will help. Hope will never burn out for her; she’ll keep on hoping for answers.