I was mildly poisoned today.
Yep, it's true. I went across the street of Kaiser South Sac. for hospital orientation and computer orientation today. We were in the building for 4 hours learning the software for charting at Kaiser. At one point we had to switch rooms and my instructor noticed a faint smell and said, "Do any of you notice that smell?" Most people did not smell anything. "Well, if any of you feel strange or something just let me know." So we went on with our orientation. At one point my friend was complaining about feeling light-headed and I was, too. I figured it was because I had not eaten breakfast, so I ate 1/2 a granola bar and drank some coffee. Still felt "funny" and found it hard to concentrate, but I presumed it was due to sleep deprivation the night before. Later on, I think my instructor could not take the smell anymore and opened the door. At this point she noticed a fire truck and a crowd of people outside with the building being lined off by some workers. We were then told there was some kind of pesticide residue in the building and we had to evacuate immediately.
All I could think of was how strange the day had been even prior to that. Everything seemed to go wrong. Many of our computers had froze throughout that session, we had to leave our room because some other group had reserved it for the same time, we were in the ghetto-eist building ever, and so forth. Yeah, what an interesting day!
The toxic chemical is an organophosphate pesticide called Parathion. You can read about it here.
We got a handout on it from our instructor and a few of us did have some of the symptoms including nausea, abdominal cramping, irritability, light-headedness, and fatigue. Kinda scary, really. My poor friend was pretty nauseous and light-headed, but she toughed it out and did not want to go get examined. All of us seemed to be doing better after we went across the street to the hospital, ate something, and had time away from the building. I had some weird light-headedness and nausea a little later on, but it went away before I left the hospital.
I am just so thankful to God we were out of there before too long and that no one had any serious or life-threatening effects. Yay!
Dude, I just heard thunder!!! And clouds are rolling in in a previously cloud-free, sunny sky! It's a cloud just big enough to cover our little neighborhood!!!
Yep, and interesting day, indeed.
All I could think of was how strange the day had been even prior to that. Everything seemed to go wrong. Many of our computers had froze throughout that session, we had to leave our room because some other group had reserved it for the same time, we were in the ghetto-eist building ever, and so forth. Yeah, what an interesting day!
The toxic chemical is an organophosphate pesticide called Parathion. You can read about it here.
We got a handout on it from our instructor and a few of us did have some of the symptoms including nausea, abdominal cramping, irritability, light-headedness, and fatigue. Kinda scary, really. My poor friend was pretty nauseous and light-headed, but she toughed it out and did not want to go get examined. All of us seemed to be doing better after we went across the street to the hospital, ate something, and had time away from the building. I had some weird light-headedness and nausea a little later on, but it went away before I left the hospital.
I am just so thankful to God we were out of there before too long and that no one had any serious or life-threatening effects. Yay!
Dude, I just heard thunder!!! And clouds are rolling in in a previously cloud-free, sunny sky! It's a cloud just big enough to cover our little neighborhood!!!
Yep, and interesting day, indeed.