Update

Things have been crazy for the past few days. I've slept in 5 places in the past 3 days, but I'm settled at the Marriott in Conshohocken, about 2 miles from my house. My cats and I are in our 3rd room here. The first was the furthest from the elevators, so someone noticed and moved me right by the elevator. Unfortunately the a/c didn't work. I wanted to stay until it was fixed even though they urged me to leave. They couldn't fix it, so they finally got me a new unit.. which also didn't work. They practically had to drag me to a new room, I didn't want to move the cats, but my new room is GREAT, right by the computer room, place where we eat and elevator, one floor up from the pool and entrance.

 I appreciate everyone's emails, phone calls and well wishes. The computer situation here is precarious at best...they're both heavily filtered for kids since they're public computers. I couldn't even get on to the lesbian forum section of this site, but I could get onto it at the holiday inn. One of the computers here won't let me onto the victoria's secret site (my cousin sent a gift card for my birthday and I wanted to spend it) but another one would. Additionally I'm a lefty and of course this is a right handed one. Still, I;'m glad to get a little more time... I had almost an hr today so far, they have to clean out the room so I won't have much longer. I don't think they want to vacuum under my legs while I type.

Starting tomorrow they'll provide dinner in addition to breakfast which will be great. I do have some groceries. This week I hope I can get to my chiropractor, fibromyalgia is killing me, even if I have to take a cab. I';m going to try to figure out public transportation too and see if it comes closer to here that the HUGE hill I can't climb. I also hope to look for scooters online and hopefully will hear about my car settlement...

I have to say, being in the fire and having to evacuate, not knowing if my cats were ok was the biggest trauma of my life so far. On a scale of 1-10 it was a 9 . I screamed hysterically from the time I called 911 on my way out for about 15 minutes, "MY CATS ARE INSIDE". I've never been hysterical before and I hope never to be again. I never knew such loud, strange sounds could come from my throat. I'm so lucky I wasn't taking a nap, since the alarm didn't go off before I evacuated (the fire started on the wooden steps outside, i got out the back steps). I had that same zombie/shock thing that I did for a day or so after I was dx with breast cancer, but to me the fire was much more acutely traumatic. Breast cancer was about a 6.5 on that 1-10 scale, since I had the biospy (even though I was told it was benign) it wasn't as much of a shock as the fire.  If someone can PM me a link from inside the lesbian forum, that'd be great so I can see if I can get in the back door. I can't go to any of the lgbt sites (none of which are porn or anything like it) to check news or forums , still it could have been so much worse.

I am a very, very lucky woman to be here today. I am lucky I wasn't taking a nap at the time of the fire. I am lucky my cats survived. I am lucky to have good friends. I am lucky that not everything was destroyed.

Tomorrow, monday I'll have to start bugging my landlord and insurance company about when I can get back in... I want to be back yesterday even though free a/c and maid service is nice. The maid even found one lone set of pink sheets for me LOL. (I didn't ask, she knew I like pink LOL).

Thanks for all the support.

My neighbor told me that my landlord starting working on the apartment yesterday!!!!!!!! Yay. I'm going to go by and see it later today- the bus will drop me off really close to where I live. I'm still hoping to be back by the weekend

I finally got my tooth pulled yesterday-- Shrink took me to my appointment. The pain is so much less than it was before the extraction.

I got my settlement from my car, about what I expected money wise so that's progress.

Things are definitely moving in the right direction. I'm hoping I can find my usb cord from  my computer so I can upload some the pictures of the fire-- the aftermath of the fire, I was too hysterical to even think about taking fire pictures LOL.