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My girlfriend woke up last night to a screeching alarm. It was a carbon monoxide alarm. Her furnace broke and spewed CO into her apt. The CO levels were at 260. You can die if it hits 300+ for ten minutes or more. Do your loved ones and yourself a favor shell out the 40-60 bucks to buy one. It will save your life. I spent most of my day in a waiting room while she was hooked up to a oxygen tank trying to get her body back to normal. Then I waited for her cat to get the same thing. This is serious, you can't smell it or see it. At lower levels you get dizzy and get a nasy headache. I almost lost the woman I love and plan on marrying to a furnace that just broke. No warning no telltale signs just a alarm going off in the middle of the night. If it wasn't for the little white box in her room she would of died. Please go out and get one, if it never goes off it's still not a waste of money. If it does get out. If you can't open all the windows, turn off the heat and water heater. Put fans in the windows. Call for help, call the fire dept call the elec company.
Mods I'm gonna sticky this in all fourms to get people to read it. I woke up to a nightmare today and I don't want anybody to have to go through the hell I did to day.
She's got a killer headache and can't walk straight. The doc told me there is still a chance for brain damage depending on how long she was in the level the alarm had read. All day she was confused. She didn't realize how bad it was untill a half hour ago. She was laying there with the cat on her chest and just started to cry. I knew I almost lost her when I got the call but she didn't. Carbon monoxide takes the place of oxygen in your blood so you don't get any O2 to your body. You just get sleepy then your gone.
I know what you're feeling dude. My little sister had a serious stroke about a week ago, and she's only 26 and was very healthy (and pregnant). Found out she has a PFO (hole) in her heart and a clot leaked through it and shot up into her brain. She's doing OK now, but will need speech therapy.
Things like this are reminders of what's important in life............
my mom was always hounding me to get one and she finally got me one and its been in my car for a couple months. i think i will get it out and put it up.
sorry to hear about your hardships and best wishes to both of you and your loved ones
thankyou for the advice. i am gonna get that detector up now.
Post by specialist on Apr 11, 2006 12:25:21 GMT -5
Best wishes man. I don't have one in my apartment and quite frankly it scares the hell out of me. After reading your story, i think i might buy one soon.
That happened to my parents a couple of months ago. The furnace exaust pipe got blown off, and all the exaust poured into the basement. That's were I live. I woke up and didn't know anything about it. Until my parents told me that I could have died. I have a detector in my room now. It's pretty scary. Hope your gf feels better, Drugs.
Sorry to hear about your misfortune, sincerely glad she's gonna be OK. Getting the shiz scared out of you can be a reality check about how much you care and what really matters.
Wow, that is scary stuff, hopefully she starts feeling better soon, I am glad she was responsible enough to have a working alarm in her house. I know as of yet I have not been.
Post by keithk1055 on Apr 11, 2006 19:41:25 GMT -5
i was thinking about it and was wondering why it took so long for the alarm to go off. i would expect an alarm to give you advance warning so you could avoid the stay in the hospital and the near death thing. was it that she was unable to hear it or do they only go off when levels are high enough to cause damage? the one i just put up is really loud so i cant imagine id sleep through it just wanted to know what the deal was if anyone knows? i guess being woke up wit a headache is alot better then not waking up at all i just thought the alarm would do better then that
I worked as a firefighter for 6 years, and I can vouch for Carbon Monoxide (CO) detectors. Ive seen terrible things that resulted from not having a CO detector, yes brain damage and death. Please have a working CO detector in your home and test it when you test your smoke detectors, change the batteries when you change your smoke detector batteries. The National Fire Protection Association reccomends that you replace batteries and test twice a year, when you change the clocks: the clocks changed last week, did you all check you detectors? Another point: if you will be going to bonnaroo in an RV or plan on bringing a generator, having a barbeque smoldering, or even running your car near your tent you should seriously consider bringing a battery operated CO detector in your tent. Carbon Monoxide can build up in a tent just as well as in a house. Any type of combustion near your tent can create a hazardous CO condition inside your tent. So just do it. THis is for the health and safety of yourself and your friends.
Sorry to hear your story Drugs. Hope all turns out for the best. You may have saved a few lives with your post. Also, thanks to Adam for the useful information. Who would have thought in your tent?
sorry to hear abut your story, ddw. its a good thing its not worse.
i agree with the poster who said that the alarm should have woken her up earlier. seems like the alarm was teetering on "not even going off at all", which would have been horrible.
im getting a CO detector if i dont already have one. i moved into a house with detectors, but i dont know if i have CO as well as smoke. is it possible that i have a combo detector??
Post by keithk1055 on Apr 12, 2006 20:08:24 GMT -5
i could be wrong but i think they need to be closer to the floor then smoke detectors...i think this is a problem that settles down instead of rising up. again m not sure though....i just put mine up at chest level like it said to
Combination CO/smoke detectors are becoming more common, however they are not a good idea because smoke is lighter than air and CO is heavier than air. As Dudewheresmyroo? stated a CO detector should be mounted low while a smoke detector should be mounted high.
Combination CO/smoke detectors are becoming more common, however they are not a good idea because smoke is lighter than air and CO is heavier than air. As Dudewheresmyroo? stated a CO detector should be mounted low while a smoke detector should be mounted high.
Wow, I didn't know that. I thought I was covered in this area when this thread came up, but mine are both ceiling mounted.
One actually went off once when I had a gas fireplace going without the flu (sp?) open, but I guess I should figure out lower places to mount them.
My thoughts are with you and yours DDW, and I hope for the best.
She's ok. Really shaken up but ok. She didn't hear the alarm. We don't know how long it went off before she woke up. She had to get another set of blood tests on Wednesday to see if she had to spend some time in the chamber. She didn't. Of course everyone telling her she could of died has ment no sleep for her, and myself included. I'm just glad she's on spring break right now (She's a third grade teacher) so she's trying to relax and get some real sleep. I don't know about long term effects. I'm not sure if brain damage occurs right away or could show up later. It's just scary. A crack in your furnace, something that is in every home and apt. That's all it takes.
thats good news...for the most part brain damage can be detected through tests, there could be some smaller scale damage that could occur later, but for the most part it is nothing threatening just small memory loss or things of that nature, i would worry more about the psychological effects of being afraid and paranoid of life. either way that is great news that she is doing good!
