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TIFU by cleaning my A/C air filter while having cancer.

Ok, this happened about 14hrs ago. Some background, it's summer here in Australia. Yesterday was 40c (104 in the old money) and NYE. Second piece of background info... I have a chronic form of Leukeamia that I'm in treatment for. No, it's ok! I'm not dying, at least not for a long time yet but it does make life pretty shit sometimes! It also means that because of treatment I have virtually NO immune system (Neutropenia)

Anyway, we went out to the movies yesterday and left the AC running as we have two dogs and a cat... One of the dogs is a husky. When we get home, the AC says it's on but it's a sauna inside. The husky is looking a little worse for wear. I go outside to check on the main unit and notice the motor and pipes are all iced over.

I figure it must be the filter inside. But surely not... We just moved into this house and it was noted on the inspection checklist that the filter was replaced.

Sure enough, the filter is black. I held it up to the light and no light shine through. Problem solved! Clean this bad boy off, wait for the unit to defrost and presto! We will have AC again.

I ran my finger along the filter and it was actually kinda slimy. I assumed it was from the humidity.

Brushed it all off and then rinsed it in the shower before putting it all back together to enjoy the cool air.

Fast forward to this morning, I wake up coughing my lungs up. Now, when you're neutropenic, you don't sit there and wonder what caused the cough, you get your arse to emergency and figure it out later.

So I here I sit in my little hospital room, my partner is anxious about what's happening and I'm being treated with empirical antibiotics and also for mold toxicity...

I just wanted cool air!

TL;DR Cleaned my AC filter and inhaled mold spores, I have cancer and no immune system landed in hospital the next morning.

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