Instant cold, just add dust

After not even looking at my Saab all summer (the garage gets to about 110 to 120 degrees) I finally went over to my garage to look at it. Getting there, the car is cover in a centermetre of dust and pollen. Without thinking, I fired up the compressor and blew it off.. car looked great clean, but I could feel my sinuses and throat closing up.

24 hours later, I am coughing up a lung.

I guess the good thing is.. there is no virus or bacteria to keep the cold going.. I am already getting a lot of the gunk out.. but it still sucks to get sick from doing something so stupid

Seriously I'd get that checked out if it last past 24 hours to be sure. If there was any rat/mouse piss or poop there's a chance you could have stirred up hantavirus. Similar symptoms to cold/flu but 50% of cases are fatal.

Welcome to my hell.......I was out in a field after work last night(started harvest) and low and behold.....I have the sniffles today.

I had the same problem once, my family was staying at a relative's house that was just getting past a black mold infestation and my parents (actually just my neat freak mom, I'm sure my dad was telling her she's being a neat freak) had the bright idea to vacuum the room I'd be sleeping in that night.

So I woke up in the middle of the night barely able to breathe, had to fly that day, couldn't hear anything for a day after I landed, still couldn't breathe right for a few days afterwards, and then got a cold.

I have mild seasonal allergies, so I'm kind of used to it. But last summer I was driving out in the country and I blasted past someone mowing by the edge of the street. The mower blew a bunch of dust and clippings into the car and I could feel my throat getting tight almost immediately. Within five minutes my nose was pouring snot and I had hives. That was freakin' nuts.

WTF is wrong with some people. When mowing the edge of the road, blow the clippings away from the road, not into it/into peoples cars. shiny happy people.

For real. My yard doesn't really butt up against a road and I still mow it clockwise to keep the clippings contained within my yard.

failboat wrote: WTF is wrong with some people. When mowing the edge of the road, blow the clippings away from the road, not into it/into peoples cars. shiny happy people.

Weedwackers blow clippings into a 310-degree arc, I just roll my windows up so I don't get hit in the face with any small rocks.

In reply to failboat:

My biggest gripe about that is danger to motorcyclists.......the property owner would be liable for that wouldn't they? Especially worse if it rains just afterwards.

In reply to 16vCorey:

I do that too......well, I did. Just got a 72" Hustler rear discharge mower......

I've started wearing a breathing mask while mowing my 2 acres. I am quite the sight with my wide brimmed hat, earplugs, headphones, breathing mask......while riding a 50" Dixie Chopper at break neck speeds across the yard.

Bobzilla wrote: I've started wearing a breathing mask while mowing my 2 acres. I am quite the sight with my wide brimmed hat, earplugs, headphones, breathing mask......while riding a 50" Dixie Chopper at break neck speeds across the yard.

DarthZilla?

I am finally getting over this.. stiff stuffed and coughing up a lung.. but at least I did not get that 3 days of build up to a real cold