Where, O Where Has My Google Account Gone; Where, O Where Can It Be

This past Tuesday afternoon, I went to check my email for the first time that day.  I usually do so earlier, but I was out that morning checking up on my store (which is closed for the time meaning) and doing some light shopping.  Instead of getting into my account, I received an error message suggesting that I was using an unfamiliar device and I had to verify my account.  This seemed fishy, as I had been using my MacBook all but exclusively for logging into my Google accounts for over a year.  Still, I began the verification process.  Unfortunately, I had a few delays in doing them.  So much so that it looked like I had failed.  I didn't immediately get my account back up like I thought I would.  I was frantic.  On Tuesday, I was expecting a very big preview of the Kickstarter project I was backing.  The preview would be available only through a link in an update email.  I was sort of scared.  As  a last moment tactic, I checked my Mac's Mail app to see if it still worked.  It did.  While I didn't have access to my email account, I still had access to my email.  Splitting hairs, but at least I could download my preview.  By Tuesday night, after various attempts to contact Google, I resorted to creating a second account, just so I could email them back with my concerns.  Turns out that I may have sent emails to a bot that doesn't reply to such things.  Anyway, I had one more thing to worry about that night.  I barely got any sleep from my worrying.  A neighbors porch light shining into the room didn't help, either.  The next day, I tried more things.  While I still had email, the rest of the Google suite was locked out.  This blog for instance.  Fortunately, I had a work around for this, at least.  My blogs, and Blogger account, actually started on my store's website.  With some minor tweaking, I found out that I could still post to my blog, even if I couldn't actually make changes to the site or access other features.  I may have been able to, but I stopped after the initial revelation.  I didn't want to risk anything else.  I still checked on contacting Google and tried more on my own, anxious about possibly losing access to anything I connecting to my original account.  Nonetheless, I had another sleepless night, even if a glaring porch light was the main cause.  I spent much of Thursday morning and early afternoon doing most of the weekly shopping, again checkin up on my store, where I currently had no wifi.  It was almost mid-afternoon by the time I could check on my Google accounts.  Still nothing, but I did try on last stupid attempt.  I tried logging onto YouTube, to see if I could merge my tow accounts. (I tried to do so with my emails the day before, but it went nowhere.). To my surprise, I found that I could link to my original YouTube account; from there, I could get back to my original account.  Aside from some security alerts, only one thing was different.  I now had the ability to have videos chats with others.  I almost wonder if my problem was the Google took the account down to add the new features without telling anyone. Or I could have done something wrong, like not signing out of YouTube properly or messing up the verification process.   Whatever, I have my original account back.  Now, I have a more pressing problem--what will I do with my second email address?