Living in a city, a lot of people will tell you that the commute is killing them, but unluckyly, for me, this wasn’t just a turn of phrase, my commute was actually killing me, day by day and air vent by air vent, and you see, for about a year I had been experiencing disappointing respiratory distress! I would beginning out perfectly fine in the day, but by the time I got to work everyday, it felt like I should be in the hospital with pneumonia.
I was coughing out a lung, unable to catch my breath, and hacking so strenuous that I saw stars. I often had a grueling migraine that accompanied, and periodically I even got feverish. Usually, after numerous hours of being at work, my respiratory symptoms would subside and I could get some tasks completed, and by the time I got home again, however, all of my respiratory troubles were back, but well, thanks to this government-mandated quarantine, I finally know what was going wrong with my respiratory system. My car’s air conditioning was leaking freon and making me seriously sick; Apparently, at some point down the line, the refrigerant line busted on the AC system in my car, then, every time I ran the cooling system, the toxic fumes were circulating straight through my air vents and into my face, since my day and afternoon commutes involved laying in the car for hours with the AC blasting to combat the pounding sun overhead, these trips always agitated my lungs the most. When I finally got a option to sit at home in the comfort of my central Heating and Air Conditioning system and ditch the tepid commute, it became crystal clear that I was suffering from the car cooling system, itself… Glad my pal and I cleared up the mystery of that mild poisoning.