My family and I just about died tonight....

[Rubicon 327]

Ty,
Glad to hear you and your family are all OKAY!......and as for the furnace,ya can't spend all your money on JD's and GN's ya know!

Take care of yourself and your family Ty,and Happy Holidays.

 

[vicious6]

We all started getting sick middle of the night last night,,, vomiting and headaches etc..... I mean headaches like 5 times worse than my wifes migraned she gets.

Finally about 1 pm today it hit me, I had a guy work on our furnace last weekend so I goodled Furnace and headaches and Carbon monoxide poisoning popped up.

I read the symptoms and WHAM exactly what we had! I called the gas company and they came and we had levels 35-50 pp/M I think he said, I was half crocked with my headache and wasnt paying much attention.

He said get your family to the ER ASAP and if need be I will drive you.

We got there and they put us all 4 on hours of 15L of Oxygen and took blood samples, EKGs etc and we are now in a motel room until the new furnace gets in.

Beware of furnaces this time of year guys!!! We were literally a few hours from being "gone"

Ty

Ty, so glad you and your family are ok! That is some serious stuff! You had better be thanking God for your second chance!

 

[aminga]

Just make sure and get you one of those energystar furnaces so you can get some bailout $'s.

 

[Roc87]

Wow Ty, Glad to hear you are OK! That's an incredible amount of CO! Last year I replaced my astroroof seal and battery was a little low to shut it once I was done, made the mistake of starting it just to shut it & lubricate slides. Wasn't running for 3 minutes in the garage and it got me the sickest I'd ever been (Yeah it was dumb, but couldn't get over how fast that CO can effect you, and will never do anything like that again)... Cannot imagine how bad you felt Glad you're still with us!!

 

[510TURBO]

John

TRULY A MIRACLE YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS CAME EARLY THIS YEAR:biggrin:. SPEND AS MUCH TIME AS YOU CAN WITH THE FAMILY AND A SEND ME THAT IDIOTS INFO SO I CAN HAVE HIM COME BY MY HOUSE:biggrin:AND WHEN HE'S DONE RECOVERINGI CAN TELL HIS BOSS HE FELL DOWN THE STAIRS:biggrin:

 

[Black Power]

Thanks for all the well wishes guys! We are in the motel getting ready to eat breakfast and find a new furnace.

I had no idea how this can happen, but you can bet everyone I know will have CO detectors for Christmas from me.

We feel a TON better this morning, yesterday was horrible. I am so very Thankful I had the big guy looking out for my family.

Thanks again!!!1

Glad you made it out of there Ty!

 

[GNTIM]

Lawsuit time...

 

[87NAT]

Lawsuit time...

My thoughts exactly...now he has no excuse not to buy another GN.

Seriously, thank God you and your family are okay. Glad you acted fast my brother.

Take care.

Ed

 

[Bweavy]

Ty

Glad you & your family are OK.

I had CO poisoning way back in the day when I worked construction. Came home fell asleep on the couch & woke up in the hospital. I had no idea what was going on. They couldn't wake me up at home.

 

[1 in 2000]

Close one....

FYI for all.

Concentration Symptoms

35 ppm (0.0035%) Headache and dizziness within six to eight hours of constant exposure
100 ppm (0.01%) Slight headache in two to three hours
200 ppm (0.02%) Slight headache within two to three hours; loss of judgment
400 ppm (0.04%) Frontal headache within one to two hours
800 ppm (0.08%) Dizziness, nausea, and convulsions within 45 min; insensible within 2 hours
1,600 ppm (0.16%) Headache, tachycardia, dizziness, and nausea within 20 min; death in less than 2 hours
3,200 ppm (0.32%) Headache, dizziness and nausea in five to ten minutes. Death within 30 minutes.
6,400 ppm (0.64%) Headache and dizziness in one to two minutes. Convulsions, respiratory arrest, and death in less than 20 minutes.
12,800 ppm (1.28%) Unconsciousness after 2-3 breaths. Death in less than three minutes.

 

[GNTIM]

A lawsuit would brand and potentially disable the grossly neglegent company. They almost killed people.

 

[chris mccord]

Good thing you were with it enough to check into it. A guy I worked with years back came in to work with a bad headache and told me his son passed out in the shower. Then he said his wife was sick too but he was so out of it he didn't realize what was going on. I had just seen a show about carbon manoxide and told him to call his wife and get them out of the house. She was so out of it she wouldn't listen. I made him call a neighbor to drag them out of the house. He went to get them to the ER and it was Carbon Manoxide. They found a crack in the furnace burner.

Good thing you looked into it and saved your family.

 

[GNflyby]

Ty, I'm just glad your all alright!!!

 

[86brick]

Very scary stuff Ty, glad to hear you and your family are all okay!

 

[alwayscode390]

I am very happy to hear you are doing well, thanks for the heads up!!! ---

 

[charlief1]

Well I may need to change a few things on my list now Ty.:wink: I'm very happy that you and the family made it out. I'd be more than depressed you disappeared from the forums bud. I haven't met you in person but I hope to soon. Please take your time and get better.:smile: You're not allowed to leave us yet dude! Now get another Buick and we'll see what happens.:biggrin:

 

[dragonational]

Thats crazy buddy. Glad you and the Fam are doing better.