A young Vancouver woman with Cystic Fibrosis says she will be forced to spend Christmas in hospital if her landlord does not turn her heat back on.

Trina Atchison says the heat in her building on West 12th Avenue has not been working since December 16.

The cold conditions are dangerous for her health, she says, because the progressive disease affects her lungs.

“As soon as the heat stopped working, the moisture in the room started making me more sick,” she said.

“It feels like ice, I wake up and my nose is cold and I’m lying next to my tiny shivering dog. It’s not acceptable. It’s inhumane.”

Atchison says she will have no choice but to admit herself into St. Paul’s Hospital if the heat isn’t turned back on immediately.

“With the symptoms, because of the cold and the lung infection getting worse and worse, coughing up blood, body shakes, vomiting, migraines. After speaking to both my parents they both said I need to be admitted, even if it is Christmas,” she said.

The building manager told CTV News he’s doing everything he can to get the heat back on quickly.

“I understand that there's no heat, but we've been there, we've been there multiple times, in the last five days, like 10 times,” Mauro Carvajal said in a telephone interview.

But that doesn’t sit well with tenants in the home, who say the situation is unacceptable.

“I’ve lived in Sweden, Miami, Toronto, Ottawa. And this is the definitely the worst experience I’ve ever had,” said tenant Mohit Gupta.

On top of the heat issues, tenants of the building were served a two-month eviction notice earlier this month, and have been offered cash incentives to move out by January.

“There's no reason for them to rush us out like that,” said tenant Jordan Fletcher. “I think what we deserved is at least someone to come and talk to us… or at least the capacity to go ‘Hey, it’s December, there's nowhere to go,’” he said.

But for Atchison, the immediate need is a place to get better.

“It’s been a real frustrating last few weeks made worse so by the fact that there's a hospital bed waiting for me at St. Paul’s,” she said. “It’s definitely not a happy holiday for me.”

With a report from CTV Vancouver’s Shaheed Devji