it's a gas

[wombat1138]

The wombat-consort had an impromptu vacation for most of this week, having accidentally gotten into his labwork a bit more than usual. On Tuesday, he opened up a neglected storage cabinet and got a lungful of random fumes, including some trace cyanide; at some other point in the day, he'd also been working with enormous quantities of some fine powdery stuff with structural similarities to amphetamine. So he had a few spots of wooziness during the day, then ended up being very ALERT all night with random chest pains. Of course, he didn't actually tell me about any of this until Wednesday morning when he asked me to drive him to the emergency room, where I spent a few hours relaxing in the waiting room while they poked at him. Luckily, I'd come prepared with a bagful of beads to assemble something I'd just sold on eBay without actually having one prepared beforehand.

Evidently the EKG didn't show any cardiac damage; they ended up just giving him something to inhale to reduce the pulmonary inflammation and then I brought him home, where he stayed for the rest of the week, resting up and re-watching Escaflowne while the cats gallivanted around him. The occupational health exam yesterday morning concluded that the powder was a red herring, and while he'd probably inhaled enough whatever to irritate his lungs, everything else was just panic attacks. He seems a bit disappointed, but from my point of view, it's just as well, really. We've also been working through some more recent anime series: Great Teacher Onizuka, Twelve Kingdoms, Tenchi Muyo GXP, and Witch Hunter Robin. Thank goodness for rentals.

Comments

ouch!

[happypete.livejournal.com]

got to stay away from that trace cyanide...and fie on the Occupational Health Exam people. I think one is entitled to a few panic attacks after breathing in noxious chemicals!

And in other notes--hey, you live! What's up?