{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-2952","name":"Mary Schlabach","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-14T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-11T04:00Z","body":"We are reaching out because our family desperately needs help.\n\nMy husband and I are raising our five children on a 160-acre horse farm in Amish country that we have spent the last 20 years of our married life building. It’s a third-generation family property, a dream we’ve poured our hearts, finances, and countless hours into, hoping to pass it down for generations to come.\nWe live a very simple life, eat clean healthy food, don’t vaccinate and grow most of our own food.\n\nBut there’s one heartbreaking problem. We have a heavily equipped 5G cell tower practically in our backyard, with another tower just half a mile away.\n\nWhat originally started as a simple 2G tower has since been upgraded and expanded into a heavily loaded 5G tower.\n\nWithin about a year of living here, we began experiencing unusual health problems. Over time, those problems have escalated, and now multiple members of our family are battling serious illnesses and difficult-to-diagnose conditions.\n\nAfter years of searching for answers and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars pursuing treatment and healing, we began looking more closely at our environment and the possibility that our health issues could be connected to prolonged exposure to high levels of electromagnetic radiation.\n\nWe eventually hired a professional to test our home, and according to the exposure guidelines used in their assessment, the readings in our bedrooms were seven times higher than what they considered safe.\n\nWe contacted the tower company, hoping they might be willing to install shielding, a deflector, or explore some other way to reduce the exposure to our home. Unfortunately, we have gotten nowhere.\n\nWe have also been working with an attorney to explore whether there is any way out of the existing tower contract, but so far, we have been told there is no way to terminate it.\n\nAnd now we find ourselves facing something we never imagined: the possibility of having to walk away from the home and farm we have spent our entire married life building.\n\nThis isn’t just a house to us. It’s our family’s history, our livelihood, our children’s memories, and the dream we had of watching future generations grow up here.\n\nWe cannot say with certainty that the towers are responsible for every health condition our family is experiencing, but the concerns are serious enough that we no longer feel comfortable continuing to live here.\n\nAfter everything we’ve invested in this property, and everything we’ve spent trying to regain our health, the thought of leaving is absolutely heartbreaking.\n\nSo we are asking for help.\n\nIs there anyone with experience in cell tower contracts, RF exposure mitigation, telecommunications law, or situations like ours who might be able to offer guidance?\n\nWe are not looking for a fight. We are simply a family trying to protect our health while holding on to the home and legacy we’ve worked so hard to build.\n\nIf there is a way to make our home a place where we feel safe raising our children again, we desperately want to find it.\n\nWe would be incredibly grateful for any connections, resources, or direction you could offer.\n\nThank you for taking the time to hear our story.","source_hash":"8d2e7e10869002d784333a1399f4144d7e6f179bfba9ca530047b6d85026db0a","filing_type":"","proceedings":"","captured_at":"","source_name":"","number":"2952","withheld":false,"attachment_inventory":true,"capture_reviewed":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-2952","slug":"child-development-comment-2952","tags":[],"attachments":[],"attachment_names":[],"classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-2952","body_sha256":"d639d8b339ec33ffe19627e4917f32a7129df85a9c0d9726ec6d80cd7a282af9","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"infrastructure","topics":[{"id":"infrastructure","evidence":"ing problem. 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