I arrived home from Russia on Saturday evening, and was quite exhausted as it was 4am St. Petersburg time. Ready to crash for at least 12 hours, all I wanted was my bed and peace and quiet. But my roommates quickly informed me that the night before there had been a scare with the carbon monoxide detector in our basement. While normally registering at zero, it sky-rocketed to 30+, which was obviously alarming. I was extremely exhausted, and most of my friends were out of town for the long weekend so I didn't have any sleepover options. Despite one roomie's thorough research and warnings, I opened my windows and went to bed, figuring (correctly) that I couldn't die from carbon monoxide if I had some fresh air in my room. As I woke up in the night I even tried to test whether or not I was dizzy, as I knew that was a symptom of poisoning. I'm not sure how effective "dizziness testing" is while it's dark and you're lying in bed, but the effort was there. Obviously that would have been a horrible reason to die - pure laziness - so I was more than relieved when I woke up the next day.
An expert checked out our place yesterday and it turns out that something was wrong with the monitor. To add to the issues with the monitor, and unbeknown to us, some household sprays (air freshener, for example) can affect the monitor reading. Let's just say we're breathing much easier today.
