[Mariel]

New fire last night and this morning thirty miles away above Santa Fe. Smoke is bothering me so much that I had high blood pressure last week and this morning I had near blindness. I didn't know if this was a stroke, so I went to ER. They found my usual 20/20 vision was 20/70, but found no evidence of stroke. I am to see eye doctor ASAP, and pcp. I was unsure if it was from the
toxic smoke, but it could be. I had a phlebotomy on Friday, so my red cells are not high, but platelets are high in my bloodstream due to Polycythemia Vera.

So here I am developing the same problem, even the eyelid droop (which left since this AM) I had years ago when I had optic neuritis. I mean, the eyelid droop and pressure on the eye was a feature of the ON, but it also had double vision and blind spot in that period over 20 years ago. I have no blind spot or double vision, just had extreme dimness in both eyes for maybe 15 minute before calling 911. I'm glad I didn't have a stoke.

Fires are all over 7 states now, especially attacking NM and Arizona. Some of our fires are not even on the national news, like the one above Santa Fe.

I was also having spatial problems and am still meandering about almost losing my balance. I think it's the toxins in the smoke, even though I now have
two filters, including a charcoal and Hepa one for removing chemicals.

For those who love beautiful tales, there was a cloud shaped like two outstretched angel wings above the smoke billowing in Santa Fe today.
It was pure white, so was not smoke but maybe it was created by rising
heat drafts; I don't know the biology and chemistry of that. I could see both
smoke billowing and cloud angel from where I live. It was very beautiful.