Author Topic: My carbon monoxide detector is going off (Read 9393 times)

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #25 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:30:22 pm »

Spoke to Nurse Mark at NHS24 and he is going to speak to the poisons expert and phone me back. I am imagining a pointy-eyebrowed bearded villain in a 3 piece suit and white coat with crazy hair and lots of bubbling testtubes.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #26 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:32:10 pm »

Or it could be Professor Snape, which would no doubt get certain ladies fizzing at the bunghole

http://www.nd.edu/~tchapman/snape18.jpg

Oaky · « **Reply #27 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:36:47 pm »

Quote from: Kirst on 17 December, 2010, 08:30:22 pm

Spoke to Nurse Mark at NHS24 and he is going to speak to the poisons expert and phone me back. I am imagining a pointy-eyebrowed bearded villain in a 3 piece suit and white coat with crazy hair and lots of bubbling testtubes.

That piece of research that showed that you can and do recognise words mostly by their ends has another data point now: I read that as "bubbling testicles" first time around.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #28 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:38:03 pm »

Quote from: Oaky on 17 December, 2010, 08:36:47 pm

Quote from: Kirst on 17 December, 2010, 08:30:22 pm
Spoke to Nurse Mark at NHS24 and he is going to speak to the poisons expert and phone me back. I am imagining a pointy-eyebrowed bearded villain in a 3 piece suit and white coat with crazy hair and lots of bubbling testtubes.

That piece of research that showed that you can and do recognise words mostly by their ends has another data point now: I read that as "bubbling testicles" first time around.

You're still thinking about Cougartown.

Oaky · « **Reply #29 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:40:57 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 17 December, 2010, 08:38:03 pm

Quote from: Oaky on 17 December, 2010, 08:36:47 pm
That piece of research that showed that you can and do recognise words mostly by their ends has another data point now: I read that as "bubbling testicles" first time around.

You're still thinking about Cougartown.

mmm... Henham.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #30 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:42:11 pm »

NHS24 have consulted with the poisons people and say that there isn't really anything to be done. I'm no longer exposed to the CO, so it's just a question of getting the boiler fixed and my O2 levels will return to normal over the weekend. He suggest I might be better not being alone tonight, but this is exercising my mind somewhat. I need to be here for the boiler folk to ring me tomorrow morning and I can't really ask anyone else to stay here with the windows open and no heating. So what I might do is leave the windows open and sleep with every item of clothing and blankets that I have and set the alarm on my phone to go off every hour, or see if I can find a cheap hotel and make sure I'm back here by 8am. Bah.

Oaky · « **Reply #31 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:44:30 pm »

It's a pity it's so far from Essex - I'm sure bobb would he happy to keep you company overnight.

hellymedic · « **Reply #32 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:45:53 pm »

Can't you tell the boiler people your mobile number and stay somewhere warmer?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #33 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:48:51 pm »

Or go to a 24-hr Tesco and get a new CO detector?

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #34 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:50:39 pm »

Am going round to my friend's.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #35 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:52:04 pm »

Quote from: Kirst on 17 December, 2010, 08:50:39 pm

Am going round to my friend's.

Very wise.

andrewc · « **Reply #36 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:54:18 pm »

Sensible decision Kirst, that or a hotel.

That flat's not built on an old cemetery or one of the Edinburgh catacombs is it ?

You do seem to be having an awful lot of bad luck with it.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #37 on:** 17 December, 2010, 08:57:45 pm »

I believe an old Indian burial ground is traditional

little miss mac · « **Reply #38 on:** 17 December, 2010, 09:02:22 pm »

Kirst - listen to me. Do NOT go into the light. Stop where you are. Turn away from it. Don't even look at it.

rower40 · « **Reply #39 on:** 17 December, 2010, 09:04:10 pm »

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 17 December, 2010, 08:23:52 pm

Kirst - if there's even a remote chance of there being a medical prob, get it checked now. At least A&E will be warm. Then sleep somewhere else until your place has been checked out properly! There must be someone you can go stay with.

+1. Glad you've got someone to ~~sleep~~ stay with.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #40 on:** 17 December, 2010, 10:13:53 pm »

Phew, that means I don't need to stay up all night checking that you're still posting from a blanket-y nest in a freezing cold flat! Hope the plumber calls on time, turns up, and it all gets sorted. And that, whether it's a lurgy or a side effect of a nefarious boiler, you feel better soon

teethgrinder · « **Reply #41 on:** 17 December, 2010, 10:39:05 pm »

Hope you feel better soon Kirst.
Glad you found somewhere warm to stay the night. It would have probably been very grim indeed!

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #42 on:** 18 December, 2010, 09:37:12 am »

Survived the night, waiting for boilerperson to ring

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #43 on:** 18 December, 2010, 10:13:00 am »

Good to hear

rogerzilla · « **Reply #44 on:** 18 December, 2010, 10:18:42 am »

Quote from: rower40 on 17 December, 2010, 09:04:10 pm

+1. Glad you've got someone to ~~sleep~~ stay with.

And glad it isn't bobb!

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #45 on:** 18 December, 2010, 10:36:53 am »

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I said to them last night, when you ring me re appointment, ring me on my mobile as I am not staying in the flat without heating. I gave them the number. I made it very clear. Ruth dropped me back home about half an hour ago where I found a message on the answering machine saying they'll be round some time on Monday and to phone them for the details. And of course the line has been engaged for the last half hour.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #46 on:** 18 December, 2010, 11:55:26 am »

After a hour of the line being engaged, followed by 25 minutes on hold, I got to speak to a person who says they will ring me between 8-9 on Monday morning to let me know when to expect them. So I am going back to my friend's until tomorrow night. I'll sleep here tomorrow night, in a cosy corset/slanket/duvet combo because if they ring first thing Monday and say they'll be here in 20 minutes, I'll be stuffed if I'm at the other side of town.

perpetual dan · « **Reply #47 on:** 18 December, 2010, 12:11:20 pm »

Sometime on Monday? I'd be getting the yellow pages out at this point.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #48 on:** 18 December, 2010, 12:39:15 pm »

If I had nowhere else to go, that would be an option, but I'm not paying for someone else to come when my maintenance contract covers it and I can go elsewhere for warmth and hot water.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #49 on:** 19 December, 2010, 12:55:53 am »

Well, at least you're still breathing! Has the lurgy got any worse? If not after all that, then perhaps it was CO poisoning rather than flu.