Not the Thanksgiving I had planned...

Early Tuesday morning my mom woke up to the smell of smoke. She ran upstairs thinking of our fire place but there were no flames. She turned on the light and the entire house was filled with smoke. She went back downstairs and on our gas stove was a pillow. During the middle of the night "someone" had taken a pillow from upstairs and put it on top of the gas stove and then went back to bed. We are SO THANKFUL that the pillow didn't go up in flames (especially because I was sleeping next to it). The pillow smoldered for a long time. The fire department came and tried to get the smoke out but there was too much damage already done. They ended up calling an ambulance because with my asthma I wasn't breathing well...to say the least. So while I was in the ambulance getting breathing treatments the fireman was in the house explaining why our smoke alarm DIDN'T go off. So Tuesday we were off to a motel because it wasn't safe to stay in our house. My parents and I have been spending the days at my sister house and nights at the motel in Rexburg. We haven't been able to go back to the house yet because they had to do some kind of thermal fog with poisonous gas to break up all the smoke particles and then go and wash all the walls, carpets, furniture...everything! With my asthma of course I am now sick and I sound like I am drowning because my lung tissues are full of fluid and I have bronchitis and sinusitis so it has been a little crazy! I am so thankful that I just have these problems and that I am not laying in a burn unit somewhere. What a great time to be thankful!!! Today I am staying in my motel room, watching movies and sitting in my gigantic jetted bathtub...I think I'll make it :D

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Pictures to come!!!