I just wanted to talk about how stress affects FM . For me it causes severe flare ups,and I have been having nothing but since March 2,2012. My family and I live in southern Indiana and were victims of the March 2nd ,2012 Tornado we had to flee our home in our pick-up truck and get far enough out of the line of the tornadoes path we set and watched a sister twister come off of the main half mile wide tornado and head straight toward our home (that we had no insurance on due to a previose storm damage that caused the prem. to become unaffordable on my husband disability income (he is disabled due to a massive heart attack that he died from for a few min before they brought him back then had to have a quintupple by-pass) after the tornado we drove back across the road to our home and although we had severe structural and cosmetic damage God bless that it was at least still standing . The detailed estemate we had done of the repairs to our home by a liscensed contractor came to 32,200.00 aprrox. so we went to all the community meeting followed all propper chanels for help and becam evictims over and over again . F.E.M.A. first turned us down so we appealed and finnaly received 4,115.00 we were able to replace the roof with those fund but had to do work ourselves due to the funds would only be enough to pay for materials. Then along came the MARCH 2RECOVERY group and once again we felt victimized over and over . M2R receveived 3 million $ from the lily group to help those who needed help . I t is now Feb.19.2013 ands we are still living in a home that has been picked up or shoved by the force of the tornado which has caused all windows and doors to be out of sqare and to leak profusly, along wityh floor damage and black mold inside the front wall of our home along with so many other things . Sine last year we have been promised and given hope only a few months later to have that pulled like a rug out from under us,M2R orrid=ginally told us no prob. 32,000.00 not a big deal then they didnt not answer our calls for 3 months whren we finnally connected with someone (and only because of a local Mayor here not ours) they tried to tell us that they thought we had been taken care of and had closed our case. we were on speaker phone unbeknowst to one of the higher ups of the gov branch and heard him say because of our income and disability status we were basically considered 3rd class citizens. Up until my husbands disability he has worke steady from the age of 16 i started at 18 and have only been a non workin citizen for little over a year and a half. we were able to get siding material for the outside of our home due to donation from family and friends . started in Aug. to reside the house (my 65 yr old father my 49 yr old husband and me ) and due to the labor tht he was not really capable of doing, all the stress we been under since tornado and the heat my husband had a heart attack and I almost lost him ! he had to have more heart surgery and ended up with a blood clot the following week causin me to almost loose him again. So in Oct. M2R came and informed to stopp all repairs because the structural work that needed to be done to our home could damage what we have already done. so we did! then just this month they came and very rudly said ohh you are the pewople who kept calling us thinkin we had forgotton you. we have not but our budget has become very low so we are not going to be able to do all the previously stated repairs then he denied tghat our home had any structural damage. what do we do? I do not know mabe if i was not FM,CFS, DDD and all i could work and tell the to just forget it!! but cant and that is...... well too much! so because of all of the stress i am in constant flare! NEED A MIRICAL !! Ty all for listening and your wonderfful gentle hugs and words of encouragement they are sooo needed here in Southern Iniana GOD BLESS ALL!!
Ohhhhhhhhh, I think I'd go to their website and download all of their nice warm and fuzzy photos of who they are and what they do, making sure to include captions saying the same thing. And then I'd upload photos of the tornado stricken home, complete with black mold and every ugly possible thing wrong, then a photo of your hubby in the hospital, if you have one, then I'd put captions on your photos, telling what exactly is wrong with the house, and then telling about the hubby's heart attack and blood clot. Then I'd post the whole business on line as a blog, stating, MARCH 2RECOVERY, A True Story...making sure that it was clear enough to everyone that the inaction of M2R lead to the end results of what your house currently looks like and how your hubby ended up. Then I'd be sure to email a copy to local tv stations and local politicians and papers. Embarrass the company enough and you might get some movement on their part. I would ESPECIALLY want to embarrass the SOB who called you folk 3rd class citizens.
If you can't put this together yourself, ask someone on here if they have the capability of doing it. You'd be surprised over what kind of help you can get if you catch the right person's eye. I had to take this approach many many years ago and it worked. Mind you, there was no internet at that point, so I had to do it in public, but BOY did I manage to embarrass a company into doing what they'd promised to do in the first place.
Hugs,
Petunia