I'm thinking she was doing the usual, taking her pills. She smelled the heater and pulled the plug. He was in the process of letting the two dogs out. He heard her fall and a faint cry...turning he saw her on the bathroom floor and in his panic, he too fell and his system went crazy....and he had a heart attack as he lay in the mudroom.
I'm 80. I fell 3 times this week into a snow bank...I could barely get up...but I did. Fortunately, I'm in good health otherwise...just weaker because of the winter hibernation.
Bottom line...she died from a combination of a concussion and the fumes from the heater and so did that nearby dog. Gene died from cardiac arrest.
Very sad!
I don’t know it’s possible to collapse pronto from carbon monoxide
It’ll be easy to test for toxicology etc wise