That turned dark quickly. Instead of a few days she spent 6 weeks in the ICU and her recovery is still extremely uncertain. She is home now and we pray every night that she gets better. As I told her yesterday we are so thankful that she survived but it will be a long road to full recovery and all of the damage done to her heart, lungs, kidneys and blood by the toxins is going to take time to heal. In the meantime I am trying to protect her from all the germs and viruses that she has never seen before. The good news is that he was not affected by the chemicals. That is the reason for the good news. We are keeping her here until her doctors release her back to us in 4 weeks. Then she will be on strict meds and is going to have to follow all of their orders. The doctors said that after 6 weeks she will still have damage but he will be fine. The doctors are not saying that she would have been ok if she was here 10-15 years ago but we will never know. I am working frantically to keep my home and finances afloat as she will not return to work for at least a year, if ever. We have been living on her disability checks and I will lose that income. We have $15,000 in medical bills. She will need a new place to live when she is able to return home. It will have to be a single wide mobile home and there is no way I can afford it. The bank took our land as they were calling it in as a loss. Our new building will be in foreclosure at the end of November if the bank does not come through. They did send me a small check today, so maybe things will get better and I can start saving up. I have lost my confidence as I just cannot do anything and there are bills to pay. That about sums up our situation. We will see how things turn out as I have to take life one day at a time. I think I am more depressed and confused than she is. It has been 3 weeks since this all happened, and I feel so much better that she survived, but like she said, it is going to be a long, long time before she will be back to her old self. I pray that she gets well and soon so I can enjoy my new granddaughter and so she can go on with her life. Oh and yes we are now down to two dogs and 6 cats. - scott_williams.vcf