Did you know that small amounts of carbon monoxide over time can lead to brain damage? I just started reading about carbon monoxide because a while ago I felt so dizzy and sick in my stomach …. and I started to black out. I called my mom and dad. They told me to go outside and get some air. My mom thought I might have some middle ear thing that she gets. Regardless, I’d be calling the ambulance again because I was really dizzy and everything was blurry. So I sat outside for about 20 minutes and felt signficantly better. So now what do I do? Go tell my landlord that he better get someone over here right now to test for carbon monoxide? Because I could be crazy, or it could be something else. Maybe I just had a new kind of panic attack. Or maybe I was having a heart attack or a stroke! Or maybe it was some adverse reaction to my nicotine patch even though I’ve been wearing it damn near a month now. I don’t know! I know I’d feel a lot better if I didn’t have to sleep here tonight because now I have this carbon monoxide thing stuck in my head. It was weird because this morning I took my fan out of the window and cranked up the heat. I’ve been in a completely unventilated area all day. So …. could it be? Could I be dying as we speak …. will I just fall over, pass out, and never be seen alive again? I put my fan back in the window, shut off the heat, and opened the door. THIS IS WHY I NEED A HUMAN BLANKET. Screw heat and carbon monoxide. Guess I better figure out what I’m going to do.
Run to Home Depot and get yourself a Carbon Monoxide detector. Just like a fire alarm, except you plug it in. It will tell you right away if you’ve got anything to worry about, and will let you sleep a little more soundly.
The gas company will also come over and do a free test if you call them and ask them to! So luckily I’m carbon monoxide free and can sleep soundly. But I am going to ask my landlord to buy one for my apartment. Thanks!
That sounds like a problem! I felt like that once at an old apartment – but it turned out the neighbors were outside grilling and all the fumes were coming directly into my window.