Status Report

Since everyone keeps asking

Many people have asked what we need. I’m going to try to repost this once a week as we continue to work through figuring things out.

Right at the moment, what I need most is a healthy husband. We had gone to the emergency room the morning before the fire because of an infection in his leg. They dithered about whether they should admit him or not, and ended up just sending him home with an oral antibiotic.

Which then got burned in the fire. So we went back to the ER the next day, because the Red Cross representative helped us get our medicine refilled, but she couldn’t help with the antibiotics.

Sir Rhodri completed nine of the ten-day course of antibiotics, but the leg was starting to look bad again so we went back to the ER once again. This time he was admitted, and they put him on IVs. After two days, we were not satisfied with his care, so we left there, and came to a different hospital. His leg is looking much better now, but we aren’t sure how long it will take.

But with him in the hospital, we aren’t doing as much on the house as we need.

The next thing we need is a long-term, inexpensive, place to stay. We’ve been going from hotel to hotel, but we can’t keep doing that forever. Free breakfast is nice, though.

One other thing I really need is a cheap computer so that I can work on things, updates, but also working on my stories and other things. My computer got burned, so I’m sharing Sir Rhodri’s. But since he’s been in and out of the hospital for the past week or so, he’s needed it more than me, and I’ve been rather bereft. My computer, tablet, and Kindle all burned in the fire.

Other than that, what we need is primarily help. Help in navigating whatever we’re going to need to do to get the place habitable again, if not as large as it had been. Help in cleaning up the big mess, getting rid of all the burned timber, and then washing the walls, etc. Help in keeping the city, etc., placated in needing to keep up to code. We had tentatively set up a work day last Saturday, but then Sir Rhodri went into the hospital, so that was out.

In a month or two, I’m going to need long pants, since those all burned. Sir Rhodri and I both are down to one pair of shoes. We will eventually need things like dressers, but right at the moment we have no place to put them.

My sister and her husband have offered to get us a storage unit for a few months, which should help things, but there’s no point in replacing things just to have to put them in a storage unit.

I will try to update this weekly, in the meantime, thank you everyone for your prayers and good wishes.

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