Very important message

A lady that I know and her daughter almost died yesterday due to carbon monoxide poisoning. If you do have a carbon mono. detector, please get one. Not too long ago, a couple and their two kids died in Aspen due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Here is what happened yesterday

"If you don't currently have a carbon monoxide detector in your home PLEASE get one. After hearing about the family in Aspen that died husband and I talked about getting one. Being the procrastinators that we are, we didn't do it yet. When our furnace broke yesterday we confirmed that we "definitely need one". Well...that was TOO late.
Yesterday my daugther and I were home alone - like normal. I put her down for a nap and about 45 minutes later I heard her screaming. When I went upstairs to check on her she was still asleep but appeared to be in pain and her eyes were open but rolling back in her head. I thought I needed to call the nurse line because it didn't seem like her at all. By the time I left her room I was feeling VERY ill. I stopped in the bathroom to get sick and woke up on the bathroom floor after I had apparently passed out. I crawled to the bedroom (still not making a connection that my daughter and I were both behaving oddly, as I was clearly already "out of it") and tried dialing my husband at work. It took 3 tries before I got him and I could barely form a coherent sentence. I told him I thought I passed out and asked if he could call me back in 15 minutes to check on me. I also told him our daughter was behaving oddly. He called back in 15 minutes and there was no answer.
My husband immediately left work (also not making a carbon monoxide connection - he thought I just passed out). 5 minutes after leaving he remembered that our neighbors (the girls who babysit our daughter) have a key to our house. He called them and the highschool age girls were home. He asked them to check on us and call him back. When they arrived at the house my daughter and I were both unconscious. They took my daughter out of the house and called 911 from their home.
I didn't come to until they were working on me in the ambulance (very surreal experience). I spent a portion of the night in a hyperbaric chamber and our daughter had to spend it with oxygen on (due to the quick thinking of the girls in removing her immediately from the home she had less exposure than I did). Getting a 2 year old to breathe oxygen from a mask is no picnic.
Anyway, we are both safe now, due to a series of happy miracles - me waking up after originally passing out and being able to call my husband, him thinking to call the girls next door, and them being home (this was the ONLY day this week they would have been home at that time), we are safe and doing pretty well. We are obviously shaken up as it is very clear that with even a little more exposure our daughter and I easily could have been brain damaged or dead. Poor husband had to pull into a cul-de-sac filled with firetrucks and ambulances. He saw them carry his unconscious daughter and wife into an ambulance and understandably is completely freaked out. "