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I have to mention this as we almost
lost a few of our riders last spring. Three of them were sleeping in the
same trailer with a portable propane heater, only one of them was able
to get up in the a.m. I guess people realized there was a problem ( I was
still sleeping) and checked on the other two occupants who were very sick,
all three of them were rushed to the hospital , the bigger man got off
the easiest, the other two were small women, one spent the day in the hospital
I think the other girl was there for a few days. The doctor told them never
to use those  indoor propane heaters overnight and that there were
two reasons the three of them survived a) there were three of them so they
were basically filtering the poison between three of them and also that
in the middle of the night when one of the women woke up to try and change
the propane bottle she was so out of it ( because of the effects of  the
poisoning) she couldn't manage it and left it empty, so all that damage
was done by one bottle! The Dr. said he felt people get propane poisoning
a lot more than they realize, headaches,sleepiness etc.. in the morning
are aftereffects of propane poisoning.
I prefer to get my headaches the natural
way.........too much beer, and really enough beer and a down comforter
and one just doesn't get cold!:-)
Chrystal