The morning I woke up not knowing where I was, convinced me that something was...

The morning I woke up not knowing where I was, convinced me that something was terribly wrong. That was eight months ago. Now I know that my 10-year old daughter, Stephanie and I had been slowly poisoned by carbon monoxide leaking from a faulty gas fire in our front room. Everything was fine until a year after the new gas fire was installed. I began to forget things. I’d go to the shops and couldn’t remember what I’d gone for, while paying bills just slipped my mind. I felt really tired – I’d have to fight to keep my eyes open and stop my legs buckling beneath me. I began to struggle at work. My doctor diagnosed depression but the medication he prescribed made no difference, nothing worked. I was argumentative and nasty, and would shout and scream at people. My mother would come to see me and I’d yell at her to get out.

She thought I was mad. Stephanie struggled at school too. She couldn’t concentrate and would end up fidgeting or throwing tantrum. The breakthrough came last November when my neighbor told me she had called in an engineer to check a smell of gas in her home. After investigating it, he said he thought it was coming from my house and told me to get checked for carbon monoxide poisoning.

QUESTION

a. In three sentences, one for each, state the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning as experienced by the writer.

b. In one sentence, state the effect of this poisoning on her daughter, Stephanie.

c. In one sentence, state the source of this poisoning.?

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Asked by Anunne1 on 8th June, 2020