Damn The Cast Iron Cootch

At first I thought the rug in my apartment would be ok.. I rented a carpet cleaner to suck out all of the water, leaving it only mildly damp.. which is as good as you can get without hitting the whole carpet with a hair dryer. So I let it fully dry out which in theory should have ended the problem. But yesterday it started to smell, so I shampooed the carpet, which made sense to me. Carpet smells and has a bit of mildew... clean it. But now the carpet seems to be mildewing worse anyway and there's nothing I can do about it. So I'm stuck with my overactive allergies and a headache from too much mildew and Dean Koontz. Who I will most likely never read again, but I feel bad whenever I don't finish a book.