Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

My wife at the time was visiting me and a nurse came running into the room saying they heard on the scanner that the local fire departments were on their way to our house. My wife became so distraught, I got out of bed with my heart moniter still attached and put her there and wouldn't let her drive back home. Shortly later her daughter called the room and I asked her to come and get her mother which she did and they left for home. I lay back in the bed and wondered what was going on till I got a call from my mother-in-law asking how her daughter was doing. I said she was at the fire but my mother-in-law said she had a seizure there and an ambulance was called and she was taken to the hospital where I was at. I got out of bed, went to the nurse's station and the nurse said my wife was in a room just down the hall. So we both spent the night in the hospital together.

My wife was discharged the following day and I was transported by ambulance to another hospital for further tests and was released from there a couple of days later.

I've never had much attachment to material things so all the things I lost didn't mean that much to me as I still have the memories in my head. For my wife, it was a different story and it took her a long time to get over it.