Well this has been a very long week for me, my heart is broken and there is nothing I can do. To give a little background information my Memaw has been wanting to move back to Texas, closer to my mom. So my mom went hunting for a house for her, she thought she found the perfect one. Yes it needed a lot of work but the payments were perfect since my Memaw is on a fixed income we were worried about cost. Mom put a down payment on the house then with the help of a few family members got my Uncle Chic (yes funny name I know) to move here from Florida to fix up the house before Memaw got here.
My Uncle packed everything he had including his "Patches"(his dog but more like his own son) mama kitty and blue (older cats he has had since kittens) and got here New Years Eve. He and my cousin Jordan have been working on fixing the house everyday since he got here.
The other night my Uncle decided to go to Houston and stay with my Aunt Elizabeth for a couple of days just to visit and relax. He has been having some stomach pain lately but thought it was just nerves because of all the changes. The next night my Aunt rushed my Uncle to the emergency room because he was doubled over in pain. They find out it is a kidney stone and send him to Ben Taub Hospital for surgery because it looks too large to pass. My mom closes her grooming shop for the day (which happens to be right across the street from Memaw's new house) rushing down to make sure her brother is okay because my aunt has to get to work and no one wants to leave Uncle Chic alone.
The next day I hear sirens, as I look across the neighborhood I see 2 ambulances, 3 fire trucks and a few cops racing down the road toward my moms shop. It took me a little bit to get information but when I do I hear that it is not the shop on fire but the house across the street. My heart dropped, see when my uncle left he put Patches, Jojo (a rescue), mama kitty and blue in the house. My mother checks on them throughout the day to potty, feed and water them, everything was fine.
I told each of the emergency workers that there were animals inside but the house was almost fully involved and they would not let anyone near. Finally, after the fire was completely out I went searching. I know for sure that mama kitty made it, however Patches and Jojo did not. I am not sure about blue I have been searching for her since it happened to no avail. No one has told my uncle yet, we are still waiting to see if he will have to have surgery. If so we will tell him once it's over, no one wants him going into surgery that devastated.
My heart hurts for him, everything he owned was in there except the clothes on his back. I can't bring myself to be there when they tell him, his heart is going to break. I am exhausted, I have let myself fall behind on school work trying to help my mom take care of things while she is down there with him and all I want is a good nights sleep. I'm afraid it will not be anytime soon.
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