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Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 @ 00:51:20 ICT by Donna
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Re: Today Show Hoarding Segment (Score: 1)
by smileyNH on Monday, December 03, 2007 @ 19:38:20 ICT
(User Info | Send a Message) | My mother was the one that told me on the phone about the Today show segment! This was to prove to me that she's not a hoarder, as I've suggested occasionally. She was horrified by the number of gift bags filled with tissue paper in the lady's house. I replied, 'Mom, you had quite a few gift bags yourself'. She snapped back at me, 'Yeah, But MINE were folded up in (storage) boxes!' She also thought when these gift bags were shown being carried out of the house they must have been donated for others to use.
I'm not much of a computer wiz, but I found the Today show clip to watch. Mom had a lot more gift bags than the TV home! I noticed the beds seemed to only have 1 layer on top; not the 3+ feet I'm familiar with. I was pleased the show featured Dr. Fugen Neziroglu, author of the only book I've read on the subject, OVERCOMING COMPULSIVE HOARDING. I was able to following the links to find this group, and am very thankful!!!
Tomorrow will be 8 weeks since my mother miraculously survived a fire started on her couch in her living room (her bed since the 4 beds are unavailable for sleeping). She was able to walk the narrow pathway thru the house to get out. Her cat went hiding & perished. The exterior of the house stands mostly unscathed, and the inside will be gutted and rebuilt. Our old bedroom above the living room and the basement below also had heavy water damage.
My sister flew in and we with a team of four pro-cleaners paid by Homeowners Insurance spent (another miracle) only 4 full days to clean out every THING. I now know how strongly recommended it is that the person themselves do the cleaning; and hope our judgment call will work out somehow, and accept that we can't undo the past. Mom has emphysema & other medical conditions so we felt it was too unsafe for her to be in the house. She had difficulty breathing thru a mask needed from the toxic burnt-plastic-smoke-unimagineable smell.
We did send a LOT to be cleaned & restored for her, that we would have chosen for the dumpster. A lot was damaged beyond repair, or the pro's advised the smell would never come out. That was the case with her many boxes of gift bags and gift wrap! They went into the dumpster.
I do recommend watching the Today Show clip, the links, and the book. |
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