An Important Question for All My Blogger Friends???

This morning I was helping Liberty do her home schooling and working on the blog about Autumn (see below). I also had an apple pancake thingy cooking on the stove which eventually would be put in the oven. We would pause our home schooling and have coffee and the apple treat (yummy tasting stuff just makes home schooling so much more fun!!).

Sitting on the couch, working on the blog, helping Liberty and keeping an eye on the stove all the while talking to Isaiah too. (Moms really do multi-task, don’t we?) I also had a headache and overall felt kind of cruddy.

All of sudden the smoke alarm started going off. It was screaming!!! Graham and I ran throughout the house trying to figure which smoke alarm it was. I finally called Dw as we were finding it impossible to figure it out. I was also feeling cruddy enough that I couldn’t think real clearly. We opened the laundry room door (even though the dryer wasn’t on) and I also climbed on top of the dryer to blow on the smoke alarm in the laundry room and still nothing stopped. Finally after about 20 minutes of blaring it stopped. We were confused. We had not been able to determine which alarm it was and part of the time it almost seemed like it was all of them it was screaming so loudly!

Life returned to normal except before long I got a bit more groggy and even thought maybe I should tip my head back and take a little catnap while Liberty worked on her school work.

About a half hour later the alarm started screaming again. UGH! Graham said, “I’ll try to figure it out mom.” In about 5 minutes he came to me and said, “Hey mom, I figured it out. It was the Carbon Monoxide alarm going off! Don’t worry, I unplugged it!”
Mike, Our friend the Captain

OH MY GRACIOUS!! That woke me up! I said, “No Graham go plug it in now.” I immediately called Dw and told him. At about that point Graham came in the room and said, “It’s plugged back in Mom and has the number 147 on it.” I told Dw. Dw hung up and called a friend who is the Captain of one of the fire stations here in town. The friend said, “Dw get your family out of the house immediately! Fifty (50) and above is extremely dangerous!!” In the meantime I had Graham move it to the kitchen and plug it in. It now read 160!! Our Captain friend grabbed the Battalion Chief and they headed to our home.

We gathered our stuff up as I stopped to dash an email to a couple of friends who I know hang by their computers most days and would pray quickly! Graham and Emma, of course, thought I was blogging on the fly (they think I am addicted and would risk my life to blog – LOL – I may be bad, but I’m really not that bad!!).

The fire department guys arrived and started searching. They found there was some Carbon Monoxide in the laundry room. But then they said, “let’s check the new stove!” I turned on the stove and the Chief brought his little detector over. He turned it on and it screamed so loudly that the Battalion Chief literally jumped up in the air about a foot. He screamed, “WOW! That’s a positive! I cannot believe how ‘hot’ that is!” (This reading was with the windows open too!) They ordered me out of the house immediately.

Rod, the Battalion Chief

They also asked how I was feeling and I told them that I’d had a headache and felt groggy and tired and they hooked me up to a carbon monoxide detector. The numbers jumped right up there. Sure enough I had too much Carbon Monoxide in my blood. The kids felt fine so they didn’t want to be checked. I wondered if my numbers were higher cause I had been at the stove much of the time and also because of the auto-immune stuff in my body.

Do you realize how gracious of God to use that 14 year old detector to warn us that there was a problem? Today could have turned out very differently if we had not had that 14 year old detector plugged in! Thank you Jesus!!!

Now my question for all my friends: Do you have a Carbon Monoxide detector in your home? Is it plugged in?

If you don’t have one – Go buy one TODAY!!! PLEEEEEASE???

If you feel up to it I would love for you to drop me a comment and let me know whether you already have one or are headed to get one? Please do it!! It could be a matter of life and death!!!

3 thoughts on “An Important Question for All My Blogger Friends???

  1. We had one before the kids were born but my hubby broke it. He had a broken ankle and was on crutches, it had a low battery and keep beeping so he hit it with the crutch. After the kids were born I made him get one that plugs in. That was seven years ago. Would not be without one. By the way I live in upstate New York.

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