jrpark22000
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Well, that was one of the worst nights of my life. I’ve done some pretty painful things in my life, knocking out 6 front teeth, large cuts, 10’ fall onto my head into a dumpster and the list goes on. This was right up there and I’m still pretty messed up.
It starts off last night about 5pm. I decided to pull a couple magnets rock shelves out of my tank. One was my Z&P grow out areas. Now I’ve done this next step a couple dozen times, just never with these two Z&P varities. I’ve an invasive yellow paly that I hate. To get rid of it, I’ll take the rock its growing on and soak it in vinegar. The palys slime right up and after 15-30 min you can just pluck them off with tweezers, easy peasy. I usually soak them for another 30 min to clean up all the paly roots to prevent them coming back quickly.
So last night I dunk the rocks into 1.5g of vinegar. If you’ve ever cook things in acid, it’s a pretty powerful and pervasive smell. I’ve grown use to it over the years so didn’t think twice that this time, it was a lot stronger than normal. It took several dips and probably 2 hours to get the rocks clean. All the while I’m going in and out of the basement utility room that is behind a door in the fish room/man cave. Somewhere around 7-8 my allergies started going haywire. To the point mucus was draining into my lungs. Again, I’m like oh well. I get done and clean up all the rock, acid and take the Z&P gook outside into the garbage.
I’m downstairs the rest of the night in the fish room/man cave working here on CR. The smell’s still strong and I’m feeling worse as time goes by. About 12:30 I decided to go to bed, by now my chest is quite painful. Like a real bad flu, it’s difficult to breathe and is labored. I’m also now coughing the phlegm (pretty thick by this point) and it tastes just like the palys smelled. Pretty nasty, right?
Within the hour it gets worse. I’m uncontrollably shivering. Plus the fun of body aches like a really bad flu, but worse. By 2-3 am just the pressure from laying in bed SUCKS. Every muscle including my eyes, scalp, toes, and fingers is just killing me. Still uncontrollably shivering I literally spent the entire night 10 minutes at a time, each 10 minutes that go by I’m hoping something is going to start feeling better. By about 5am, I go from cold shivers to hot sweats but the body aches are dropping in intensity. Finally about 7am I’m to the point of being able doze.
It’s now 1pm and I’m still pretty jacked up. It wasn’t a flu, or food poisoning. The only thing I can figure out is palytoxin. If the smell was thick enough in the air to leave the taste of the smell in mucus, what chemicals were also in the air and on the particles I'm breathing in? With the particles/chemicals so thick in the air, being filtered out in my sinus’, then dropping straight into my lungs, I can only think it’s a pretty easy way to get toxin in my blood stream.
Or just call me crazy for all of this. Something was very very wrong, what else would t have been?
It starts off last night about 5pm. I decided to pull a couple magnets rock shelves out of my tank. One was my Z&P grow out areas. Now I’ve done this next step a couple dozen times, just never with these two Z&P varities. I’ve an invasive yellow paly that I hate. To get rid of it, I’ll take the rock its growing on and soak it in vinegar. The palys slime right up and after 15-30 min you can just pluck them off with tweezers, easy peasy. I usually soak them for another 30 min to clean up all the paly roots to prevent them coming back quickly.
So last night I dunk the rocks into 1.5g of vinegar. If you’ve ever cook things in acid, it’s a pretty powerful and pervasive smell. I’ve grown use to it over the years so didn’t think twice that this time, it was a lot stronger than normal. It took several dips and probably 2 hours to get the rocks clean. All the while I’m going in and out of the basement utility room that is behind a door in the fish room/man cave. Somewhere around 7-8 my allergies started going haywire. To the point mucus was draining into my lungs. Again, I’m like oh well. I get done and clean up all the rock, acid and take the Z&P gook outside into the garbage.
I’m downstairs the rest of the night in the fish room/man cave working here on CR. The smell’s still strong and I’m feeling worse as time goes by. About 12:30 I decided to go to bed, by now my chest is quite painful. Like a real bad flu, it’s difficult to breathe and is labored. I’m also now coughing the phlegm (pretty thick by this point) and it tastes just like the palys smelled. Pretty nasty, right?
Within the hour it gets worse. I’m uncontrollably shivering. Plus the fun of body aches like a really bad flu, but worse. By 2-3 am just the pressure from laying in bed SUCKS. Every muscle including my eyes, scalp, toes, and fingers is just killing me. Still uncontrollably shivering I literally spent the entire night 10 minutes at a time, each 10 minutes that go by I’m hoping something is going to start feeling better. By about 5am, I go from cold shivers to hot sweats but the body aches are dropping in intensity. Finally about 7am I’m to the point of being able doze.
It’s now 1pm and I’m still pretty jacked up. It wasn’t a flu, or food poisoning. The only thing I can figure out is palytoxin. If the smell was thick enough in the air to leave the taste of the smell in mucus, what chemicals were also in the air and on the particles I'm breathing in? With the particles/chemicals so thick in the air, being filtered out in my sinus’, then dropping straight into my lungs, I can only think it’s a pretty easy way to get toxin in my blood stream.
Or just call me crazy for all of this. Something was very very wrong, what else would t have been?
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