Update on the carbon monoxide issue
The landlady just called - her heating guy can’t make it out til FRIDAY.
I asked if she could call PG&E - she said all they’d do is shut off the gas (then we can’t even use the stove/oven).
She’s going to bring over a space heater in the meantime. It better be a NICE one.
Meanwhile, the house is 64°F. I’m chattering cold in anything under 73°F (hence why I left Michigan a decade ago!!!).
We bought a cheapo Walgreen’s space heater for the bedroom last night while I was still in a hazy daze from being POISONED.
Last night, I was thinking about everything in the past five days with regards to the carbon monoxide poisoning. I was really dyslexic and had a very hard time writing it down. Pasting here w/ updates/corrections today:
January 24th: worst headache I’ve ever had - officially called it a migraine. I was in the house full time, bedridden due to girl do0m.
January 25th: let on to my man that I’d been having nightmares. I was in the house full time, bedridden due to girl do0m.
January 28th: woke up in whimpering neck and shoulder pain with another migraine that lasted over 4 hours. The pain went away when I stepped out of the house for a few hours. Got paranoid at that point that the house has high levels of carbon monoxide, cuz I realised too that the house had been smelling funny when the furnace goes on. I can’t remember if it was around the 24th, 25th or 26th of January when I realised this about the furnace. When I went to bed on January 28th, I cracked open the window so we wouldn’t die in our sleep, I was that paranoid. Even though we don’t normally run the furnace at night, the thermostat is usually set to 65°F, and sometimes the house temp dips below that. I could’ve just turned the furnace OFF, but well I wasn’t thinking correctly. I WONDER WHY.
January 29th: charlie horse to the right foot in the wee hours of the morning. Was out of the house for much of the day, no migraines. Picked up the carbon monoxide tester on the way home, and you know the rest - the headache/nausea came back and the tester alarm went off twice, indicating high levels of carbon monoxide present in the house.
My neck and shoulders were killing me last night, and I was REALLY tired by 9:30pm, despite having had a big ‘ol mocha earlier in the day, which always keeps me going to at least midnight. I had that same sort of fuzzy vision I get when I’m stoned on Tylenol3 for girl do0m. I know I should’ve left the house as soon as the alarm went off, but I thought opening all the windows would suffice. My lower legs ached, too.
The treatment for poisoning is high dose oxygen mask according to emedicinehealth.com. What I did instead was try to breathe as much outside air as possible. It was 45°F outside last night, and 65°F inside the house with the cold night air pouring in through open windows. I kept stepping outside for a few minutes, then coming back in the house, but the dizziness didn’t go away.
When my man came home from band practice, he took us out to the store and drove me around and let me roll the car windows down every now and again.
But when we got home, all I could do was just go to bed. As you can see, we made it through the night alive. :p
AWESOME, I TELL YA. :/