It is imperative that I find some kind of gas detector that I can afford to purchase before I die in the Senior High Rise that I am living in. I have been deathly ill since I moved in, here, against my will.

In the City of Pittsburgh/Allegheny County, the Senior Citizen High Rises are extremely unsafe and unhealthy.

At the previous high rise, for five (5) years I complained and constantly called the authorities and no one would help, resulting in one Senior Citizen death after another.
I was constantly called crazy and repeatedly had false, unjustified eviction charges filed against me for non payment of rent (all my life, I have always paid my rent before I have done anything else) … retaliation because I was educated (once a nurse) and I could recognize the extremely dangerouis situations.

Finally, last August 22, 2008, I was evacuated out of the highly contaminated building which had: Asbestos; high levels of sewer gas from defective plumbing; high levels of carbon monoxide from the four (4) tier garage beneath the building; high level of pesticides; high level of chemicals that were placed in the garbage to control stench; constant amonia and bleach from the laundry room; black toxic mold; constant flooding from the bad roof over a five (5) year period; high toxic levels of glues and other building materials which made one extremely ill; etc.

It is a miracle that I am still alive but who knows for how much longer.

I took part of my nurse’s training in Wisconsin and it is really nice country.

Pittsburgh is the worst place that I have ever lived in my entire life. They keep paying for high ratings as a most livable city and that is one of the reasons that this city is so broke. The pollution is the worst along with the rental properties. Landlords are permitted to kill one tenant after another and no one does anything about it because the district justices, judges, lawyers, doctors, law enforcement officers, politicians, wealthy businessmen, and other powers that be own much of this slum property along with the Catholic Church (I know because I worked in more than one of these churches that collected rent on this slum property.).

When I was evacuated out of the other building, I was brought to this other Senior Citizen high rise which is almost just as bad as the other building.

At times I can barely move my arms or legs. I am becoming deaf in my right ear. My face becomes very numb and the same with my pinky and ring fingers on both hands and the same for the two smaller toes on each foot. I am constantly nauseated, dizzy, and feel as if I am in a fog. This makes it extremely difficult for me to get around in my wheelchair.

The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh has refused to give me a decent apartment because I refused to sign a twentyk-one (21) page lease that would have taken away all of my rights as a handicapped person (when I refused to sign it they even tried to kick me out with the help of an ultra corrupt magistrate).

They refuse to repair my plumbing and the sulfur is so intense that I cannot sleep and my eyes become blood shot. I constantly have indigestion and I feel as if I am going to die. Sometimes I feel as if I am going to have a brain hemorrahage. I even feel something dripping inside my head. The doctors ignore what I tell them and I do not go back to them, anymore.

My arms and legs ache so bad that I can barely move them … just like today. At times I keep gagging and keeping the windows open does not help because a huge garbage dumpster is below my window and it blows in all of the garbage fumes, especially when it is hot out. My liver and entire abdominal area is constantly bloated.

I am on a low income but I need to get a tester that is accurate and can test for at least eight (8) to (10) of the worst chemicals/gases that I am constantly exposed to.

The alarms have been set so high (just as in the other building) so that they no longer go off because building management/administrative staff are tired of the fire department coming out and then the maintenance men having to come out to reset the alarms.

I see Senior Citizens that are suffering needlessly because of what these Nazis are doing to us. We each have been given our own little gas chamber to suffer and die in (they hate it when I say this … but it is true).

Please e-mail what literatrue you have one a tester that I could use.

Thanking you in advance, I remain

Sincerely,

Helene Karpiel
P.O. Box 40337
Pittsburgh, PA 15201-0337
412-482-3955
If you call, please do not place a block on your telephone because then the call will not be put through. I do not accept anonymous calls and have a block put on them (I was sick and tired of all of the constant hang-up calls and sales calls.).