- Oct 28, 1999
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My Dad is a mason for a municipality. One of his duties is to repair the tile and walls of pools in the indoor pool facilities. He had to work overnight at a new pool facility last weekend. Something was wrong with the pumps that release the chlorine into the pools and caused an overflow of chlorine into the building. After a couple hours in there he couldn't hardly breath any more and had really bad skin irritation. He went to the doctor the next morning and found out that he had pretty severe chlorine poisoning.
Fast forward to yesterday morning. Yesterday he got up to go to work, and was eating breakfast. My Mom walked into the kitchen to find him collapsed against the wall and nearly unable to breath. She got him into the car and took him to the closest urgent care center. Unfornately the center they went to wasn't open 24 hours, but there were nurses on duty. They checked my Dad's vitals and had an ambulance rushed over.
The took him to the ER and he was in there for a couple hours until they could get him breathing normal again. They told my Mom that if she had brought him in 20 minutes later he probably would have been dead. My Dad doesn't remember even getting loaded into the ambulance or taken to the hospital. He was that out of it. :Q
It seems that the chlorine poisoning has induced some sort of accute asthma. He has to go in for more tests on Monday to see what exactly is going on.
He was very lucky because he usually goes out fishing or hunting in the mornings and is a long ways out from his truck and from a hospital. If he had been out by himself he might not had made it back in if this asthma attack had hit him at that time.
Freaky stuff. My Dad is only 46. He now has severe allergies to chlorine. My Mom can't use bleach in clothes and linens, and he can't swim in chlorinated water any more. I'm sure there is some kind of law suit here, but my parents are not litigious people.
Fast forward to yesterday morning. Yesterday he got up to go to work, and was eating breakfast. My Mom walked into the kitchen to find him collapsed against the wall and nearly unable to breath. She got him into the car and took him to the closest urgent care center. Unfornately the center they went to wasn't open 24 hours, but there were nurses on duty. They checked my Dad's vitals and had an ambulance rushed over.
The took him to the ER and he was in there for a couple hours until they could get him breathing normal again. They told my Mom that if she had brought him in 20 minutes later he probably would have been dead. My Dad doesn't remember even getting loaded into the ambulance or taken to the hospital. He was that out of it. :Q
It seems that the chlorine poisoning has induced some sort of accute asthma. He has to go in for more tests on Monday to see what exactly is going on.
He was very lucky because he usually goes out fishing or hunting in the mornings and is a long ways out from his truck and from a hospital. If he had been out by himself he might not had made it back in if this asthma attack had hit him at that time.
Freaky stuff. My Dad is only 46. He now has severe allergies to chlorine. My Mom can't use bleach in clothes and linens, and he can't swim in chlorinated water any more. I'm sure there is some kind of law suit here, but my parents are not litigious people.
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