In 2005 I moved into a dorm room in California while I was a full-time graduate student. Unbeknownst to me the building had a mold and mildew problem and I had a horrible allergic reaction to it. It started with symptoms similar to getting a cold. But before long my lungs were producing mucous and I was getting sicker and sicker. My first trip to urgent care came when I went home to New Mexico over the winter holidays and was so sick that I scared my sister. I would get to the point where I literally couldn’t breathe, I had to sleep sitting up, and my condition was clearly getting worse and...