u/luckymasie

(EDIT: Thank you all for your answers. We saw the red sparklers and assumed they were a pre-show visual, not the entire Dallas show. We were on the 57th floor of Comerica Tower, so we saw like 20 shows at once. Fair Park’s were amazing.)

Does anyone know what happened? We are up in one of the office buildings, and have been since long before the show was set to start.

We had a very clear view of the park, and only display sparklers and 3 actual fireworks, all low to the ground.

Was there an accident or something that caused them to be cancelled? Or did we miss something?

I have severe MCAS induced asthma (it landed me in the ER a few weeks ago), and usually, if I’m on the right medication, it’s well managed.

I tend to react to things like food, but also to scents, perfumes, and chloramine, so I steer clear of those things, as does my family. Everything we use is unscented. Unfortunately, there was a scented straggler that is causing absolute chaos right now - Simply Nature’s Miracle Pet Stain and Odor Remover.

For some context, we have two German Shepherds. One of them loses control of his bladder when excited. Usually, he’s on the hardwood, so it’s easy to clean. We used the other bottle of Nature’s Miracle (Advanced Stain and Odor remover for dogs) when it happened, and even though the scent was highly irritating, it faded pretty quickly, and could be diluted or wiped away in its entirety with some tap water and a paper towel.

Because of this, when he got into my carpeted bedroom during some deep cleaning and got too excited about it, we didn’t worry too much. We grabbed the new bottle of nature’s miracle, the simply one, which my mom bought in the hope it would be safer for me to use, and I treated the area. It wasn’t a lot, but the line was long, so I had to treat a pretty large area of my carpeting (a line about 3/4 of an inch wide and 3 or 4 feet long), with a handful of smaller spots no bigger than a nickel.

I let it sit for about ten minutes, then blotted it away with paper towels, followed by my mom also blotting it to make sure I got everything, and that should have been that.

Instead, it started a nightmare.

I have never, in all my years on this earth, reacted to anything as severely as I react to that cleaner. I have been coughing so hard and so frequently that I am making myself physically ill. I had to leave my room entirely later that night, and my mom went at the spots with our little carpet cleaning machine (hot water only). It didn’t work.

So, we got a bigger carpet cleaner, and did my entire bedroom floor with hot water. Doing THAT actually made my reaction even worse, meaning it got spread around by the machine. We have now gone over my entire floor 3 times with that machine. There shouldn’t be any nature’s miracle left. There is, though. The scent of that cleaner is near suffocating, and even though my parents can’t detect it, I still can, as can my very angry asthma. I can’t get within 2 feet of my bedroom anymore, even though my window has been open, my bedroom door has been open, two windows in the main body of the house have been open, my ceiling fan has been running, AND my air purifier has been running.

I slept in the living room last night, and didn’t sleep at all the night before, choosing to repack some boxes and organize some things instead. My chest and stomach hurt too much to try and sleep.

The only thing I can compare this to was the natatorium we would go to when I was a kid, long before any of us had even heard of MCAS, let alone started experiencing it. That indoor pool smelled HEAVILY of chloramine, and after a few hours,I would be coughing so hard that it made me physically ill, which was my mom’s signal that it was time to leave. We just didn’t know it was asthma at the time.

The difference between then and now is stark in terms of my health and how MCAS operates, but I’m also on 2 immunosuppressants (3 if you count the prednisone my doctor dropped me on to make sure my asthma wouldn’t kill me after the attack that landed me in the ER - they’re keeping me on it for a as long as possible since the side effects are better than suffocation), a leukotriene receptor antagonist, 4 antihistamines, 4 additional mast-cell stabilizers, and have two inhalers and a nebulizer to work with.

Despite all of that, this stupid floor cleaner is absolutely destroying me.

Does anyone have any experience with this problem, or any advice on how to fix this, or neutralize it, or SOMETHING? We are now on day 3 of this, and I’m reaching the end of both my patience and my prednisone, and we are at a loss for where to go from here, short of cleaning the carpet until the water runs completely clear, which, due to the age of said carpet, is going to be a nightmare. We’ll do it if we have to, of course, but any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.