UGh. And feeling stupid.
 

Hi,

Last night I sprayed a ton of Windex in my computer room. (Usually I use organic products but I had some old fashioned Windex that I found back in a closet.)

Today I woke up feeling brain foggy and headache-y.
It took me a few hours to realize that the Windex (ammonia and other chemicals) in my system is making me feel like garbage.
UGH.


Maybe I can go for a walk before it gets dark.
Maybe I can try to clean up the Windex so that I can use this room.

M

I hope you were able to get some fresh air and maybe even air out your computer room, would a fan help? I know it is late there, sorry I just got on line late.
bizi
p.s.....*You are not stupid!:Bow:

Bizi,

I went out for a walk.

Maybe tomorrow I can open the window and run the fan a little to air it out.

M

Dear Mari,

Blech. Ammonia is very volatile too - i hope you closed the room off so your other rooms, especially sleeping areas, didn't get affected. if not, you still might want to do that. hopefully you can get the computer room aired out easily.

of course you are not stupid! it had probably been a long time since your last windex-intoxication. maybe give the bottle to a friend who normally uses those kinds of products, so you don't come across it again.

(((hugs))) and some fresh air (very fresh--cool--cold-- 40* air) your way

~ waves ~

HI,

The window is stuck. I have not asked hubby to help me open it yet because i have been avoiding dealing with is OCD and extreme need for privacy. He likes all the doors and windows closed.

Today I hope he is calmer so I can open the the windows in the computer room and bed room.

M

Bizi

I would say send him in the room. And let him feel the effects.

But from my own experience with this. I know it wouldn't work.

He just wouldn't have the same effect.

I hope a solution arises.

I'm also wondering if you can call the manufacturer of windex.
And find out what to use to counter the smell and feelings its
giving you.

Donna:grouphug::hug:

Hi,

The two windows (two rooms) are open and the fans are on.
He helped me dust and vacuum around the windows.

The first thing he said when he started to open the windows was this:

"Will the lizards come in?" :eek:
I explained that the closed block lizards (geckos). :cool:

Mari

sounds like you guys worked it out. good.:)

lizards
 

Dear Mari

well if you do happen to need a lizard catcher, just holler. i'm an expert... grew up doing it. hehe. :D i think they got in through our ac units, all i know is we were always finding them.

i used to play with the lizards outside. i once had a green one climb up and down both my arms and shoulders... until it ended up in my hair, and i had a lot of long hair too. i guess it panicked. it wouldn't keep still and my hair was getting all tangled up. so i got rather agitated too because i couldn't get it. it wriggled squirmed and slithered and i shook my head this way and that until it got out somehow. an onlooker would have surely had a good laugh. i did afterwards, although i felt sorry for the lizard because i'm sure it got very frightened.

funny our attitudes about different animals. if a moth, or a beatle, let alone a cockroach got in my hair somehow, i would become totally hysterical and feel grossed out well after the event.

i'm amazed your hubby didn't worry about the larger insects rather than the lizards... perhaps he didn't think of it... probably good. ;)

anyhoo... glad things are getting aired out so you can breathe again.

i know you'll do everything to avoid these chemicals, but should you ever end up having to use any product with ammonia (or bleach, etc), please do so with the window open. in both cases the vapors are damaging to your respiratory system. there's typically a warning on the bottle that says to use in a well-ventilated area - that means with a good fresh air supply from outside.

~ waves ~

waves your lizard story is quite humorous!:)

lizards and lips
 

Hi,

Thanks for your lizard story Waves,

Hubby hates the lizards. At night they try to come inside toward the light if we open the back door and the screen door (Maybe they are attracted to the light) He's not great with other small moving creatures either.

I have had peeling lips since the day after the Windex incident. It took me a day or two to make the connection. I am almost all better now.

M

Mari

I'm glad you are almost all better. When my lips peel for some reason,
I use a medicated lip balm to help them.

Donna:grouphug::hug:

HI,

Most lip balms have scents that bother me.

The one I bought was similar to this one: Main ingredient is coconut oil.
http://www1.macys.com/shop/product/b...3-_-10-_-MP310

M

i used to use (for lips and skin) some stuff that was 99% pure cocoa butter, but i started having a hard time finding it. i wouldn't know if they make it any more, or if they've changed the recipe. it was by Esirg, came in a miniature plastic bowl thingie, box was a cube shape - burgundy and pink on it, diagonal coloring.

wait. i might still have the container, so i can give you specifics. ok this last one i bought, the container is larger and cylindrical (1.8oz, and about the size of a small noxema jar), w/ same pink/burgundy colors as on the box.

it is made by ESIRG Manufacturing Company - Sacramento CA 95826.

heck. i just read the ingredients. how can it say "Cocoa Butter 99% pure" on the front. and then the ingr. list starts with petrolatum! :mad:

it has a very mild chocolate/cocoa scent. i think the original formula really was 99% cocoa butter... maybe that's why it came in a much smaller container. idiots! oh well.

well...in case you are interested, here is my "last known" ingredient list - presumably in order of decreasing % content:

petrolatum,
vegetable oil, lanolin,
cocoa butter,
deionized water,
fragrance,
stearic acid,
propylparaben,
methylparaben.

.................. sigh............. well, whatever. i figured give you the info in case you can use it.

~ waves ~

Not sure because the one I bought for me at christmas time got given
away in a stocking.

But the one's I use are the chap stick medicated. And I do not use
scented so I dont think they are.

I dont like them or flavored either one.

But not positive I haven't had one in almost a year.

Donna:grouphug:

Hubby got into a scrape. I have to do more dishes.
 

Hi,

About 10 days ago while jogging at our park, hubby tripped and took a dive on the asphalt, tearing his skin on his left side. I made him take a shower to wash off the dirt from the fall, got some neosporin-type ointments with zinc, bought different shapes and sizes of bandages, and taught him how to do them twice a day so he could care for himself when I am sleeping or at work.
I also told him to take a zinc supplement. He is healing now. His hand has the deepest wound and will take the longest to heal although it is healing nicely perhaps because of luck and because of the careful measures we took.

Dishes are piled up in the sink each day because although he cannot wash dishes with bandaids on his left hand, he still likes four or five, dishes per meal (whereas I use the same dish all day or use paper plates.)

He seems calmer lately . . . maybe because his inner weirdness has given way to the brain/ body's focus on healing the skin.

M

good that he had you there to assist him. sorry for his fall.
has he been able to work ?

Yes, Bizi,

He has been going to work. He is ok. I think he was shaken up because he fell in the park where he often runs. He has felt vulnerable.

His scrapes are almost better. Some spots are healed. He only has three bandages he is still wearing.

M

Mari

So glad he is better.

Donna:grouphug::hug:

Dear Mari

'Glad your hubby is getting better... "only three bandages" makes me wonder how many he had to start with, poor guy! i can see how getting injured doing something one usually enjoys in a familiar place would shake a person up. it messes with one's comfort zone. Anyway good job getting him all together again.

i am sure hubby is appreciative of your help with his dishes, whether or not he actually expresses it. i know what you mean though... when i can't do things, i tend to change my way of functioning so i have fewer things to do. you and i have different "dish" approaches but similar insofar as we don't like to end up with lots of dishes to wash. i guess others are more rigid about their routines, even when these become difficult or, in this case, impossible to sustain without the help of others. hang in there. it is kind of you to help him sustain his routine rather than just let the kitchen pile up with dirty dishes.

(((hugs)))

~ waves ~

UGH: Insecticide and bleach
 

Hi,
. . . .too many chemicals today. . .
1. First the maintenance guys sprayed a bleach wash outside in prepararation for pressure cleaning tomorrow.
2. Next, the Terminex guy came here to spray a tiny bit in the house and a lot outside.

I am reacting to the insectide a little. I went out in the car to get groceries. Then I came back and opened the windows. Of course, the outside smells like bleach.

Waves,
Hubby stopped wearing the bandages yesterday.
He had a stubborn place on his left leg that was not healing with Neosporin. I had him use 15 percent zinc (diaper) cream. He is fine today.

M

sorry about the chemicals.
glad to hear that hubby doesn't have to wear bandages any more. and that he is better.:)
bizi

noise and bleach
 

HI,

I did not sleep because I was finishing workbuddy's carp for him. I emailed it to him late. Well I did sleep.
It was three hours. One. Two. Three.

The A/C guy came for ROUTINE maintenance on our A/C. What a noisy guy he was. And then hubby got uptight about a guy being in our place among our stuff. (I deal with the guys most of the time. They are used to dealing with women in their own homes covered but not quite presentable for the world.) I bet that the woman are nicer to them, asking them questions about how their day is going rather than this and that bluster about machinery that the guy of the house knows no more about any than the woman of the house does.
And did I say morning?

The pressure cleaning guys have started outside. They have noisy machines. Maybe Klononpin, aspirin, tea, and supplications to the gods of all that is good are in order.

There is probably more bleach in our place because hubby just came to me to ask if I can get bleach out of his beautiful favorite sweater. :eek: I guess he had an encounter with the A/C guy's chemicals.

Have a good day.

M

oh Bleach...rats...I am sorry for his sweater. I don't like to use bleach hubby does under extreme circumstances...I am paranoid about little drips getting on things that shouldn't be. my clothes especially it is not forgiving so I feel for the sweater incident...:(

We are going to use bleach to get rid of an armadillo who has taken up a sink hole and has made a home of sorts just under the edge of our carport on the side...it is a big hole, we thought it was just the sink hole and had been for about a year, goes down we fill it up then goes down again we fill it up this time it was different. YOu can see where something has dug /kicked dirt out into the flower bed. sigh just what we need.An armadillo!
bizi

Yes I really don't like bleach either.

I also have a hard time with all the bleach hubby puts in the whites.

I've had to slow him down.

Donna:grouphug:

Rosacea
 

Hi,

My face is red from going out in the sun for 25 minutes two afternoons a week for two months. I think I kicked up the Rosacea.

The two months of sun has completely changed my life for the better by lessing my anxiety (maybe increased Vit D blood levels?).

I want the sun. I want the rosacea to calm down. I do not know if I can have both.

M

armadillo!
 

Dear Bizi,

Those are ugly creatures.
You do not have to try your own remedies. You probably have a parish office that can give you guidance on this kind of stuff.
Maybe call the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries regarding Nuisance Wildlife Control.

Mari

To Bizi
 

Awww poor Armadillo. i know they are sort of scary looking in their armor, and not exactly the best-adapted of animals... but. well i think they are cute. fwiw. i pretty much love all creatures unless i feel threatenened by one.

i understand the lil' critter is hurting your property Bizi. But i hope the "bleach plan" will just drive it off to find a new abode, and not hurt it any.

good luck. (((hugs)))

~ waves ~

toxic chemicals at home... sigh
 

Dear Mari :circlelove:

sorry about hubby's sweater. :(

i hope your home is clearing up of the most recent inundation of noxious fumes between the bleach outside and insecticide inside!!!! blechh blechh bleckhhhhhhhh!!!!!! :(:mad:

(((hugs)))

~ waves ~

To Bizi
 

Bizi, I would try vinegar. Not that we have armadillos in Australia, but I just looked up some website and it said that it was "smell" that sent them on their way. I would try vinegar for safety purposes or maybe lavender or something less toxic than chlorine. :hug:

Great suggestion about the vinegar, thank you lara.
bizi