CO Poisoning 12/17/09
 

Long story short to explain my absence for the second half of the day where I was supposed to ship many orders and such...

Earlier this morning I simply got carbon monoxide poisoning from neg pressure causing smoke to be forced out the hatch of our pot belly stove that heats the shop. That’s because I did the duct work myself which basically shows you what kind of heating and ventilation jobs I do :ugh2:. Through out the day I was showing symptoms of it and thought it was cold symptoms until I started constantly forgetting what I was about to do, was going to do, and kept on miss placing my phone. Simple things that you always forget but in an abnormal quantity. SO I was forced by my co worker to check myself in which a blood test confirmed my CO poisoning and then had to be hooked up to an oxygen tank for a few hours and then stick around just in case.

Even though I have been working with wood fires and wood burning stoves my entire life I never have done my own ducting so its my fault for this and I apologize to anybody who was waiting on a PM from me today.

So a quick reminder to all. Because its that time of year that we have to be indoors more and use allot more heat everybody be careful. If you have head aches, nausea, vomiting, lose of apatite / vision / memory, dizziness, and like symptoms its prob not a cold, its CO poisoning. I mean it can be a cold or flue but the thing is you don’t want to think that. You want to assume the worst so you can get yourself checked just to be safe. I did a quick search not more than a few min ago. Turns out many people die a year from CO poisoning that they don’t even know about, thousands a year in the US are treated for it, and I might be wrong but I think I read that near half the hospitals in the US cant properly diagnose CO poisoning? I'm not sure on that last one but its a scary thought. Basically be smart and get a CO detector. I know I will tomorrow.


Other then that I'll have pms and tracking for everybody tomorrow, I had the exhaust fixed, and I will continue to use fire to heat my shop because its cheap and calming :)

Good news is its 12.49 AM. I feel fine just a light head ach soooo Good night all!

That stuff can kill someone... Monoxide is the bad one compared to dioxide.

You should seriously buy some 3M N95 masks. That mask is damn good!!!!

Holy...

Glad you're okay man. I think you owe that coworker lunch.

:wtf::icon08:

i call bullshit!!!

Many thanks to you guys. I will be getting some better masks than what we have just in case I suspect anything whether or not the CO detector goes off but other then that I feel fine now just a tiny head ach from dealing with those ER jerks. Can you believe it took over an hour for a blood test... I live one block away from a hospital but it totally defeats the purpose of the hospital has outdated equipment and careless employees >:O

Again thanks! Now I'm going to bed...

This is upsetting. I hope I don’t see this from other members because that is a seriously gutsy thing to do on a forum. I really hope to not see any more of this from anybody and would at least hope to get a little more respect.

Its CO poisoning from a wood burning stove with new duct work. Its not like I said I was driving down the highway and transformers fell from the sky and caused me to swerve into an other car and got in an accident.

I really feel like I shouldn’t explain myself.

Thanks

It's just bad timing..... You know

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enjoy the american health system. :/ speedy recovery, hope the medical bills aren't outrageous like mine are...

i got that new transformer movie too

i hope its as good as you say

though dont spoil it for me please cause i really hate knowing the outcome before watching the movie :ugh2:

aeris dies.

wait..?

WTF AM I DOING AWAKE GOOD NIGHT

kdo I pmed you and hope to get a decent reply from you.

Thanks Phelan. I just have to go back soon for a follow up for another blood test. I cant wait to see my bill come in!

Its a great movie! Too much comedy though... But Transformers 3 should be good too.

Do you have a smoke detector, that should of caught the leaked smoke. When I start my wood stove.... You can definately see a haze sometimes... That's the smoke from start up.

:tup: im in!

im seeing haze now....

oh wait its the shiner :icon14:

Well, what happened was I started the fire and teh way I always started my fires was by building up a pyramid fire. 3 logs on the bottom (center log a fire starting log), then two on top, then one over that. I wrap it in news paper like a Hershey kiss and light the tip. That build a real hot smokeless fire from the get go. The neg pressure messed up the burning process which also forced the main hatch to open. Its like an 80 year old pot belly stove and they have poor hatches that open easy which also lets you know there’s neg pressure so I guess its good.

We do have a smoke detector but I was gone for a short time to get my coffee and stop off at the paint shop to say morning :tiphat:. When I got back there was a good amount of smoke build up from the open door, poor lit fire and neg pressure. I hahd to move a bunch of stuff to get to the over head door since like I said we are in the works of remodeling basically and building new desks and benches so there was about two work benches worth of wood on top of parts stands, FG hoods, molds, etc. In that short amount of time moving stuff to get to the door I inhaled enough to get to me. Real stupid of me to keep the stuff cluttered but it was only going to be for a few days and I had that thought "oh what’s the worst that could happen"... We all know what happens when somebody says, "whats the worst that could happen".

Noice! :tiphat:

Thanks

:tiphat:

Lastly before I log off for the night... I hope nobody else has anything negative to say in this thread out of respect. And if so, at least hold off until I ship what I said I'd ship tomorrow.

Thank you everybody!

Thankful your OK!:merrychristmas:

installes heating duct work as good as his coustomer service is..


nuf said

Next week the Aliens will barge through the shop door and steal all the pillars for their carbon fiber ship delaying the process even more

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/4...20df86e9e9.jpg

ahahahahahahah i love it

Dont run out of wood...lol.

Hilarious ending to the Pyramid Scam. :tup:

Impossible to get CO poisoning from a wood fire. The smoke would overwhelm the room long before the CO. Imagine sitting in a room full of smoke from a wood fire, not realizing anything was wrong for hours on end. Hilarious, sad, outrageous, pathetic, all at the same time.

I love my plastic B-pillars.

Santa might bust the whole ventation setup trying to get in.

No way, man. Santa won't be able to get in through that ductwork now that it's been brought up to code.

:rofl2:

If you have read through the short history of this thread you would have read that I wasnt sitting in a room with the smoke...

RE: Wood Stove Safety / House Fires and Carbon Monoxide



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• Posted by Berlin (My Page) on Mon, Oct 17, 05 at 23:14

there is not a very big risk of carbon monoxide poisoning if you are burning wood, the house would be full of smoke by the time carbon monoxide levels would reach high enough to cause a concern, and like most sane people when a home is full of smoke, you realize there is a problem, long before anything elce happens. however if you are burning natural gas, which has quite oderless emissions, then co poisoning would be more of a concern.

Suggestion to OP

Go read the children's story Chicken Little

A bird landing on the rain cap could cause the whole thing to fall appart :icon18:



jk

If you woke up a few seconds ago before reading this I suggest you drink a cup of coffee, take a few moments, then come back and read this.

Happy to hear that you are alright, get those pillars shipped!