Hi Renee,

I am so sorry to hear of your losses--this is an awful time for you and I hope that things start getting better for you soon.

Getting in the pool with the dead algae isn't really a problem health-wise, the only issue would be that if the pool is cloudy, it's hard to see anybody that might be underwater having troubles--so as long as that won't be a problem for you, I wouldn't worry about it.

I don't know what your current CYA level is, so it's hard to say whether you should increase it or not. These are the first few suggestions that come to mind...

1)if you have a cover, then raise the chlorine level and then cover it up,
2)Give it a good dose of polyquat 60 algaecide, then shock the next day (similar to how many people close for the winter)
3) Use a floater with trichlor pucks in it, tethered to both sides of the pool so that it won't float over and sit next to your liner for any length of time.

I'll do some thinking on it, but these are the three most logical choices I can come up with. And, after all that, the worst thing that will happen is that you come home to algae, which can always be cleaned up later--I suspect that the pool is very low on your priority list right now, as it should be. It can always be dealt with later on.