OH Poo!
Four score and 7 weeks ago we bought a couch and love seat from a friend of a friend. Rico picked it up in Oakland, he was in a hurry and forgot to take the cushions off the couch and they blew off, never to be found again (because he drove back to look). Week before last, I saw on marketplace someone selling the same couch. Where they live is where one of my family members is from and it turned out they know each other. I inquired about them to be sure I wasn't buying a couch that would come with “friends” even though I was just using the cushions from it. Rico picked it up Sunday and Mini Mayhem's first day on it was last Monday. Despite my best efforts to protect the fabric, Monday night, she had diarrhea, and it ran. It ran like Forrest Gump ran across the state of Alabama. And it wreaked. I heard it happen, so I got up to change her diaper right after so it’s not like I waited and ended up with a mess. Now I don't know when the last time you smelled kid poop was but I'ma just tell you....liquid poop smells entirely different and much worse than formed poop. IYKYK! I spent 45 minutes getting up as much as I could and Tuesday, I drug out my handy dandy Bissell Little Green Portable Spot and Stain Cleaner.
I pre-treated. Then I sprayed again just before I agitated with the brush and then sucked up the dirty water. I had to stop when Maci got back from her daily walk with her nurse because she cries over the sound of a vacuum or carpet cleaner. The rest of the day, I still smelled poop. Wednesday, I planned to clean the couch again while Maci was gone but got busy. I still smelled poop and apologized to Mini Mayhem's physical therapist and speech therapist for having a crappy smelling house because they both came that day. So I saturated the crappy section with enzyme cleaner. I continued to smell poop. I add white vinegar and baking soda to my grocery delivery list and get those Thursday night. Friday, I didn't get a chance to clean although I. STILL. SMELL. POOP. I spray some more enzyme cleaner throughout the day, alternating with Odoban. Yesterday, I STILL smell poop. The smell is faint, but it is still there. MM is in her bedroom with her music, I have 2 room dehydrators going along with the TV and cross my fingers that all of that drowns out the noise of the cleaner. I put on rubber gloves, grab a scrubber and get to spraying and scrubbing. I bravely sniff the scrubbie sponge and I don't smell poop. So I go back to spraying and scrubbing a different area and after another whiff, I STILL don't smell poop! I shove my hand deep, down into the couch crack, take a towel and shove it next and guess what? NO POOP SMELL. So I make sure I've sprayed and scrubbed the length of where the poop leaked, plus extra and proceed to use the cleaner (hopefully) one final time.
It wasn’t until I was using the cleaner that a light bulb went off. I had left the cleaner sitting out with intentions of cleaning until the smell was gone. Welllllllllllllllllllllllllll, I was smelling the POOP WATER in the CLEANER'S RESERVOIR where the dirty water goes that is sucked up!!!!!!!! So MM went back on the couch today but there are plastic bags and a towel in place to protect the back and crack of the couch as well as the edge of the cushion. She is also lying on a rubber back bath mat, with two washable bed pads on top of it and a disposable one on top of those. Dear Lord, please place your hand of protection on my couch for pee and poop prevention until I can spray it with Scotch guard.
I pre-treated. Then I sprayed again just before I agitated with the brush and then sucked up the dirty water. I had to stop when Maci got back from her daily walk with her nurse because she cries over the sound of a vacuum or carpet cleaner. The rest of the day, I still smelled poop. Wednesday, I planned to clean the couch again while Maci was gone but got busy. I still smelled poop and apologized to Mini Mayhem's physical therapist and speech therapist for having a crappy smelling house because they both came that day. So I saturated the crappy section with enzyme cleaner. I continued to smell poop. I add white vinegar and baking soda to my grocery delivery list and get those Thursday night. Friday, I didn't get a chance to clean although I. STILL. SMELL. POOP. I spray some more enzyme cleaner throughout the day, alternating with Odoban. Yesterday, I STILL smell poop. The smell is faint, but it is still there. MM is in her bedroom with her music, I have 2 room dehydrators going along with the TV and cross my fingers that all of that drowns out the noise of the cleaner. I put on rubber gloves, grab a scrubber and get to spraying and scrubbing. I bravely sniff the scrubbie sponge and I don't smell poop. So I go back to spraying and scrubbing a different area and after another whiff, I STILL don't smell poop! I shove my hand deep, down into the couch crack, take a towel and shove it next and guess what? NO POOP SMELL. So I make sure I've sprayed and scrubbed the length of where the poop leaked, plus extra and proceed to use the cleaner (hopefully) one final time.
It wasn’t until I was using the cleaner that a light bulb went off. I had left the cleaner sitting out with intentions of cleaning until the smell was gone. Welllllllllllllllllllllllllll, I was smelling the POOP WATER in the CLEANER'S RESERVOIR where the dirty water goes that is sucked up!!!!!!!! So MM went back on the couch today but there are plastic bags and a towel in place to protect the back and crack of the couch as well as the edge of the cushion. She is also lying on a rubber back bath mat, with two washable bed pads on top of it and a disposable one on top of those. Dear Lord, please place your hand of protection on my couch for pee and poop prevention until I can spray it with Scotch guard.
Tonight’s story time is brought to you by an increase in energy by the letters M and P. M for medrol dose pack and P for prednisone.
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