Please Get Your Furnace Checked and Install Carbon Monoxide Detectors

 

A testimonial and a family’s experience from a Christmas email I received this year from our next door neighbor that I would like to share with you.  Please read.

 

Yesterday we had a very frightening thing happen to us here.  Kim and I got up at 6 am to KNWC (our usual.)  The two us started to share as getting ready that neither of us felt very good-strong headaches, dizzy and nauseated.  Kim so much so that we decided he couldn't drive to work until he felt better.  Heidi got up to say goodbye to us before we left, since she was headed back to Orange City later in the day.  She was feeling worse than we were.

 I called the gas company to see if they could come and check the carbon monoxide levels in the house.  We turned off the furnace, opened windows, etc.  Kim stayed at the house and I went on to work.  I thought I would just feel better over a little time.  I continued to feel poorly and even shaky and confused.  I was just telling some nurses at work about how I was feeling when Kim called and said the gas company found a problem with the furnace and the house had fatal levels of carbon monoxide in some of the rooms.  Another hour or two without opening the windows and we would be dead.  Two nurses drove me back home.

 Nate became our designated driver since he seemed to have no effects.  We went to the emergency room where they took our blood levels and treated us with oxygen.  Our blood levels were 15-20 times normal.  After 3 to 4 hours on O2 most the the symptoms disappear. 

 We went back to a cold home, but very grateful.  Over the next few hours the headaches gradually decreased.  Heidi did make it back for her classes today.  Lambert put us and our dog up in a hotel for the night so the furnace can go in today.  The noises coming from the basement, as my cold fingers write this, make promises of heat by tonight.

We have two carbon monoxide detectors here today!

 

Go to our web site http://www.housesbyharlan.com/ServiceList.aspx for a person to check your furnace or Lamberts Heating and A/C 338-1231 who Kim and Yvonne used.