meow Im actually used to getting gas leaks at school cause i live in a very poor and ghetto area. Since we moved into our apartment it always smelt weird i cant even describe it. its as if you left the oven on without baking anything.
my mom got used to it, thinking it's just how the apartment smelt. I never got used to it actually, I often breathed into my shirt and opened my window when I was there.
The stove was always weird, it'd tick a lot before the fire even turned on and even when it's been off the stove would still tick and release gas. My mom wanted to cook food despite me not being hungry and her already eaten, she said she'll boil some chicken just to hold us over for tmrw morning. I ended up falling asleep in my room while my mom had fallen asleep while boiling the water, leaving the stove on.
In my sleep, it was going fine until I kept hearing a strange beeping noise and I just ignored it, (I'm usually aware in my sleep for some reason) but after a while, everyone in my dream kept looking at me weirdly and kept claiming how "somethings off" or "somethings wrong" and thats when I woke up.
The alarm kept ringing, it was 4 fast beeps every few seconds. I ran down stairs and shook my mom awake to turn it off. She's a very deep sleeper compared to me and didnt even hear it at all until I had woke her.
She kept messing with the monitor, covering it and pressing the buttons and she didn't take it seriously, thinking the battery had died until the monitor downstairs also began going off. Thats when she read the words on the monitor, "Carbon Monoxide detector."
she started panicking and followed google's instructions to call 911. Once the fire dept had came over, they turned off the gas, searched the apartment and faned down everything, opening every window. My mom had called my aunt to pick me up so i can get away from the exposure. (its like 3AM by now, my family r night owls since they have night shifts.) Once I calmed down at my aunts, she gotten a call from my mom, asking me about how Ive been feeling.
Ive been having headaches, im more tired recently, nausea, and chills. Thats when she had her brother and his wife get me n her and take us to the ER. Once we got there, they actually made us top piority and had us skip the waiting room, tending to us immediately. Thats when we found out that there has been carbon monoxide inside of us and our lingering symptoms we mistook as allergies were actually caused by the gas. They did bloodwork and made us wear oxygen masks until all of the carbon monoxide was gone. By then, it was already 4AM.
I'm still very spooked by this cause this had happened this morning. If my brain didn't send me signals that something was off in my dream, I would've stayed asleep and never woke up my mother. We wouldve continued living until the gas had gotten worse inside of us and catch something worse caused by it. My moms brother/my uncle was just about to go to sleep right as my mom called him. My baby sister had been staying at my grandmas since my mom works a lot so she wasn't exposed to any of it, fortunately.
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