Heal! Stay!

Claire is not well.

She has been at the emergency veterinary clinic for 24 hours now. It started with some vomiting and progressed quickly (less than 10 hours) to who-knows-what by Saturday morning. The main issue is that her heart is not stable — this happened after her surgery in April as well.

To be clear — Claire’s heart is dangerously unstable for unknown reasons.

I am very, very worried.

Please think good thoughts for my girl. I love her so.

3:00 pm Update

Thank you for all the good thoughts. Claire is now under the care of a Rock Star Critical Care Specialist. Meds were changed and her heart rate is down, although still not as regular as one might hope. She had an echo, however, and her heart is structurally normal. Claire will be having surgery soon — there is a suspicious place in her intestine on ultrasound, possibly where a resection of a benign mass happened in April during her bloat surgery.

🙏🍀

Meanwhile, in fire news…

It is still going and the Super Heroes are still flying. ✈️ 🚁

6 pm Update

I will have a lot to say about this at some point BUT Claire is out of surgery. Previous surgery = adhesion which created a space for a loop of bowel to go where it shouldn’t and it twisted 🤯 Diagnosis: Bowel Torsion. There is reason to be cautiously optimistic 🙏

Update

The Super Heroes continue to work on the fire.

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You Can't Make This 💩 Up (Chapter 276,928)

I had planned to be at the inspection for my new home but this is a busy week and so I sent friends to be my boots on the ground while I joined via FaceTime (THANK YOU, Dear Friends 🙏❤️).

It was a wise decision.

Lightening strikes yesterday afternoon set the mountain on fire.

Deputies showed up to hand me an Evacuation Warning.

They took my name and number in case I was advanced to an Evacuation Order.

This is a map of the area — the yellow was ordered to evacuate. I am the red circle and so “only” a Warning..

By sunset, the fire had grown to 1600 acres.

Suzanne came and got Sparkle and Capella to make it easier if I was evacuated. Capella was not sad about that — she LOVES her Auntie Suzanne.

My porch security camera kept track of things over night.

Carlos, who has Worry Wart tendencies, got ready.

But all was calm overnight and I woke up in my own bed.

I could see three separate areas of flames when it was still dark but as the sun rose, the mountain just looked misty.

6:30 am

The smoke, however, clearly moved down the mountain overnight and you know what they say — where there is smoke, there is 🔥

I am, however, pretending it is mist.

Galen just sent me this text:

🤷🏼‍♀️

Meanwhile and elsewhere, the home inspection proceeded with nary a hitch and lots of thumbs up from the in-person team 🙏

If you know any good rain dances, now would be an excellent time to start the music 💃🏼

❤️