Apologies

I'm sorry for the delay on the installment again. This weekend we had an emergency involving one of the people I love most in this world, my friend Dani. She lives in Spokane, and I can't get to her to be by her side, which makes it all worse.

I learned a couple of very important things from this emergency--

1. Always have a list of emergency contacts for your friends and loved ones. Despite knowing Dani almost 30 years, and having started out friendship out in person, at Holloman AFB where our then-husbands were stationed, and having visited with her and stayed in constant contact with her all these years, I didn't know any of her family's contact info. Amber called the Spokane PD and I spoke with the fire dept there, and they did a welfare check. That was the only way we had to get some help to Dani.

2. If you have pets, make sure someone has access to them in case of emergencies, and that the someone is to be notified immediately in case of said emergency. In fact, it's probably best to have a few people to contact in case the first one or two of them are out of town.

3. Keep a written list of important contact numbers on you all the time, not just saved in your phones.

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Dani's got family in Spokane, but they were all in Utah. I couldn't reach any of them, didn't know most of their names, and the ones I do know about aren't on FB and their phone #'s aren't listed. Dani's cell phone died and she didn't know any numbers, and even if she had known them, she was in no shape to recall them. Her BP when the EMTs checked it was 76/41. She's so far been diagnosed with a heart and kidney infection, though she's still too ill to give me much information. She's sleeping a lot.

Dani has pets, and I spent two days arguing with her apartment manager trying to get them to let someone in, anyone, to check on the cats. But only people on the lease could be let in, and that would be Dani's mother, who wasn't in town, and whom I couldn't get a hold of at all. Eventually, her sister came back to Spokane, and they were able to talk another apartment employee into letting her sister into the apartment. I understand there are laws and such in regards to this, which is why I mentioned having a plan for pets in emergency situations.

I'm awful about remembering people's phone #'s. Those are all saved in my phone, after all. Well, now I know how important it is to have those numbers at hand in case something happens to my phone. I did call the nurses station and ask them if someone would please lend Dani a charger, and they did, thank you so much, Deaconness Hospital nurses!!

I'm very frustrated with being unable to get to Dani. She was instrumental in me leaving my first marriage and testifying in court against that ex. She helped me to see that I needed to leave, and she refused to be intimidated and run off by him.

I'll have an installment up, hopefully this evening, and I'll get books sent out, too.

Y'all take care and love your people!! ***huggz***