10/21/2024
Thanking my beautiful lucky stars,🙏🏻 God and all the angels, and all the work I’ve done to understand and work well with my intuition and the host of healing tools I use on a daily basis. For without them we may have had a very different outcome… 🙀
We have a ton of ceiling detectors – smoke, CO2, and gas. The detectors get new batteries annually on a schedule, we don’t even have to ask. All of the equipment in our home is 10 years old or less. We live in a beautiful luxury community where everything is addressed the moment we ask, and even before we notice. Even with all that...we’ve been living with a slow natural gas leak into our homes. And into our bodies. ☠
For nearly a year, from time to time, I’ve been saying I smell something as we walk into the house. It’s been a quick instant and then it’s gone so that I can’t catch it again. It didn't happen two times or two days in a row. Of course maybe it was Howard’s sniffer isn’t as sensitive, right? That’s a pretty common female-male thing. I’d ask and he’d say nope and I’d try again, but it was gone. Every so often he’d say “I thought I smelled something but now I’m not so sure.” A few days ago, though it was faint, I just knew I smelled something. But Howard didn’t smell it and then it was gone. I couldn’t pick it up again. How do you call in a repair request when there are no signs of an issue? It’s like bringing a sick child to the doctor and the moment they get there they’re fine. And if you don’t think the jokes were going back and forth about this she does, he doesn’t, smell thing…🙄😹🤣
But that evening, driving out of the community I saw fire trucks blazing over to the condos next door and I KNEW. The trucks weren't for us, I wasn't feeling fear. It's just that when your intuition is telling you something it will grab your attention any way it can. The trucks looked SUPER, technicolor red and overly shiney, they were all I could see!!! And though I'd had the music turned up, windows open roof open too, the sirens were all I could hear!!! In that moment I KNEW if I didn’t address this situation quickly those trucks would be coming for us, and worse.
The next morning even though I couldn’t smell a thing, I called the office to tell them I smell nothing right now but…but they weren’t in and I began to worry. I realized that I’d never feel safe without actual proof. So I went to Home Depot and got a gas leak detector. Thank GOD!
When I drove back into our community I saw the maintenance team and told them what was happening. They ran right over! At first the maintenance guy said there was nothing because his professional unit didn’t go off, but I asked him to come to the stove and check. Mine blasted, his stayed silent. His batteries were dead! So he tested all around the stove and found nothing. To the garage we went to check on the water heater and the other equipment tucked in our Utility Closet.
Upon opening the doors he yells “Get outta here! Open the windows and doors!” A full on gas leak! Instantly I was enveloped in gas, the strong and clear unpleasant scent added to natural gas to warn of the danger! The team went into immediate action – gas was turned off, windows and doors opened and the plumber redid all the gas lines, connections and caps. Within a few minutes the house felt lighter and safer.
It would take another whole hour for the house to clear of gas, according to my gas leak detector!
And as there’s a vent from that room directly into my studio…and then free open space throughout the house…we have been exposed to lower levels of gas for months!!!! Between the summer months when the house is closed up with air conditioning, and a recent few super cold nights when we turned on the heat briefly, we have been breathing in that toxic gas in levels low enough that all the detectors did not siren the alarm! But our bodies had been trying to warn us, my intuition too.
The past few months have been challenging - nothing's "wrong" just life events, my mother-in-law’s back fracture and a few other things, so feeling fatigued didn’t surprise me. It's normal, right? Getting “allergy headaches” wasn’t a new experience either as I've had to endure allergy issues all my life. My annual physical and blood tests showed that I'm completely health, but of course they weren't checking for poisoning. My sleep quality declining was new but nothing to be truly alarmed about, right? WRONG!!!
I went to my acupuncturist that afternoon and she had a gas leak once, so she was able to confirm all my symptoms – and probably the issues with sleeping, are all from the gas. She agreed as I said I thought my system wouldn’t let me sleep because we have been in danger! We spoke about the healing effects of sleeping on my BioMAT and using my other tools which most likely mitigated and lessened the dangerous effects of the gas while this was an ongoing situation.
The day after the gas line repairs – I awoke with “no allergy migraine”, no fogginess, my memory is as sharp as always and my sleep was much better. I feel like myself again. As my husband works out of the house a few days a week he wasn’t feeling the symptoms as much as me, but they were there. He confirms he notices how much better he feels now too! Dear Lord! We’re so grateful that our BioMATS and Healys along with a few oils and regular acupuncture, plus drinking tons of water will help us clear out all remaining toxins.
In case you or someone you love has gas in the home, this is the item that saved us. It’s super easy to calibrate and confirm it’s working right away and super easy to use. So no matter how many detectors you have, unless you have one smack up against the area with the lines – which isn’t standard – I suggest that everyone with natural gas needs one of these helpful tools. Here's a link to my Amazon Affiliate account if you want to grab one here or head to your local hardware store as soon as you can. It's such a small price for peace of mind and such important safety.
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