MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Whitehaven mother is terrified her four-year-old may be getting sick.
She already has a toddler at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital battling leukemia.
When the family leaves the hospital, Lasharon Hodge said they are forced to return to a dangerous, unhealthy home infested with mold.
“We were in the hospital for three weeks before they let us come home. When we came home, that’s when I noticed a big bubble in the bathroom ceiling,” said Hodge.
Not only that, Hodge showed WREG spots on the wall that were damp, warped and felt soft at her Tulane apartment.
She also showed pictures of what she said was mold forming along her ceiling.
She said she’s complained for weeks, and finally, maintenance showed up thirty minutes before our interview.
“That’s where the mold and wetness was,” said Hodge pointing to her bathroom ceiling. “They just came and sprayed bleach and white spray paint over the top of it.”
WREG called management several times about Hodge’s concerns, but never heard back as of Thursday night.
“I can’t live like this, because she’s so high risk for getting sick. Her immune system is really low,” said Hodge.
It gets worse.
Hodge said her four-year-old son has also been showing the same symptoms her toddler showed before she was diagnosed.
“We are in the middle of getting him tested,” she said. “It hurts me that I have to have my kids in the type in this environment.”
Hodge said she would move, but she doesn’t have a job right now.
She has to spend her days at St. Jude with her little girl.