Plot Twist: Shaun unintentionally poisoned me. 😂😂😂

Plot Twist:  Shaun unintentionally poisoned me. 😂😂😂

So his dad's house has a really nice sun room. It will be amazing for our animals and my succulents. Um... I guess I skipped a part:  We're moving out there. I don't know what we're going to do with our current house (Sell it? Rent it out? We've never done either of those things before. We have lots of research to do.)

ANYWAY... the sun room was full of junk and had old smelly carpet for flooring. Shaun has been working hard to empty and clean the room; it's been his main focus because I'm not staying away from my plants and animals. Since this sun room was a later addition to the house there was a pipe (through the floor from the basement going out the roof of the sun room) venting the water heater. I think neither of us realized how important this pipe was because he took it down and I was all for it.

After a few days he thought better of it and Googled its purpose:  to vent CARBON MONOXIDE from the water heater. We wanted to put new flooring down so we thought we'd do that first before putting the pipe back since it would be easier and look nicer to not have seams through the middle of the floor. The sun room has lots of windows, so to be safe he opened them and turned on some fans. He thought that would be sufficient to keep the carbon monoxide from building up.

Long story shortened: it was NOT. 😂😂😂 He told me last night that he thought that's what's been wrong with me. He said he was feeling bad, too, but not as bad as me. I looked up the symptoms and yeah - moderate carbon monoxide poisoning looks exactly right. After spending a few days not there I feel much better. I went over last night to do some work and had a headache by the time I left. Thankfully, we got most of the flooring down the other day (before I got super sick), so he's able to reinstall the pipe today.

I still have a 'Rona test scheduled for today and I'm going to go ahead and have it done just to be super sure that's not my issue, but yeah. I'm like, 99% sure it was just carbon monoxide exposure. We're getting new pipes to use for venting today and we're also going to grab a carbon monoxide tester thing to make sure it clears out and that there are no leaks once we're done.

Fun times. 😂 I do feel better now that I think I know what was going on. I knew I was off in a big way but just couldn't put my finger on why or what it was. I did have a car that leaked carbon monoxide like, 20 years ago. I remember being sleepy at work after driving to my job back then, but the headache was unfamiliar and that scared me since, you know, pandemic. Anyway, I hope you all are doing well! I'm ok. I've just gotta put my focus on school for the next few weeks and hope I pass my class. If I do it'll be by the skin of my teeth, so I have to buckle down. Later, friends! ❤️