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Kind of mold behind the wall or above the ceiling, ron and melinda moved out of the house and into a apartment over the garage. but even with the move ron's neurological problems continued to get worse. >> at the office i would be on a phone call and 10 or 20 minutes into the phone call just not have any idea what we'd discussed. >> if there was some kind of mold behind a wall or ceiling, how would investigators find it? medical experts began to suspect that something in their home environment was making ron, melinda and reese sick.

Home be demolished. melinda and ron filed suit against their insurance company for the financial loss of their property. the suit argued that the insurance company knew or should have known about the potentially dangerous effects to repairing water damage inside houses. dr. gray sees more than 150 patients a year who suffer from exposure to molds. >> i conclude he was defectly affected by the mycotoxins that he was exposed to in his living environment. >> in addition, ron's attorney presented epidemiological studies showing the relationship between trichothecene, the toxin found in stachybotry...

>> and ron exhibited other symptoms. >> he came out of the grocery store and could not remember where he had parked his car. or what car he even drove. it took him about five hours to come back from the grocery store, when it should have taken him 20 minutes. and when he gets home everything's melted. and he said, i don't know. i had a black out or something. >> i didn't know what was going on. and the wheels were coming off. and it was -- it was -- i was scared. ron went to a neurologist for testing. the results showed a dramatic decrease in his cognitive abilities. >> my doctor had told me t...

Melinda ballard was living a dream life. she and her husband had a beautiful home a healthy adorable son and successful careers. until their three-year-old son developed a serious illness. >> i didn't know if he had some kind of rare disease that nobody'd ever heard of. i didn't know what to think but i knew it was getting worse. >> reese was still asthmatic. very. in fact the pulmonologist said he had scarred lung tissue. >> but still the cause couldn't be found. it appeared to ron's coworkers that the stress associated with his son's illness was starting to get to him. >> ron was sitting at ...

Dripping springs texas, a town where you can enjoy the beauty of the texas hill country yet commute to downtown austin in just over half an hour. me melinda ballard loved this area. in 1994 she met ron allison. after dating for less than a year the couple married. >> he was everything i had ever wanted in a man. very intelligent, a real go-getter. a workaholic, which is what i am so we seem to match up pretty well in that regard. just a super guy. >> we both had the same interests. we both wanted to have a family. i think that was the key. careerwise both similar