Ms. Wendi

This is Addy's darling pre-school teacher whom we just LOVE and ADORE. She is an outstanding teacher. We are praying for Ms. Wendi and her family.


It was a potentially deadly close call for a West Jordan family Tuesday morning, after carbon monoxide poisoning knocked a mother and father unconscious. Their daughter came to the rescue just in time.

Richard and Wendy Hansen run a pre-school from their West Jordan home. However, Tuesday morning, the green light to come in was not turned on.

“We're just sitting there and the light didn't come on and didn't come on,” recalls Brae Craig, Richard and Wendy’s daughter whose child also attends the pre-school.

Brae started to worry so she called the house but there was no answer. She was able to get a hold of her 17-year-old sister on her cell phone. “My sister came running out the door and said, dad says he's hurt but he won't get out of bed and mom won't wake up,” recounts Craig.

Brae rushed inside. She says, “My dad was laying there and his eyes were open and I thought he had had a stroke. I tried to wake my mom up, but she was like curled on her side snoring like she was sleeping.”

Brae called 911 and got her teen brother and sister out of the house. Her family was taken to Intermountain Medical Center - her mom in critical condition - just minutes away from death.

“It was scary, you go in there and I didn't know what was going to happen with my parents,” states Craig.

Brae says her dad began to make a quick recovery and is being treated in an eight-person hyperbaric chamber with his two teen children.

Her mom, is in the I.C.U., but is expected to recover as well.

Brae says she was told that both parents had a carbon monoxide poisoning level of 35 percent.

“Concerning levels are really anything above 15 or 20 percent if a person has symptoms,” explains Dr. Lindell Weaver with Intermountain Medical Center.

Dr. Weaver adds that treatment is based on the severity of symptoms, not on the level of exposure, “Outcome is somewhat unpredictable. People who have been poisoned, some will recover fully, some won't. Some will have continued problems.

Ms. Wendi is no longer in cricital condition is in now serious condition! You may check out her blog at: iswendiok.blogspot.com