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Feb. 28th, 2020 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI keep thinking that I'll get my feet under me and manage to deal with life well enough to get back to posting here regularly. Then something else smacks me.
I've had four PT appointments for my knee so far. We're trying a lot of different exercises because it's really hard for me to be my hamstrings to do anything at all without making the knee worse or getting my quadriceps very sore. We also haven't found anything that works for stretching my calf muscles. We spent most of today's appointment on that.
While Scott was driving home from work on the 17th, the car spun out and went into a ditch. He was a long way from help, so we're lucky that the car could still be driven. (He called the insurance; they said that staying and calling the police wasn't necessary since no other vehicles were involved and since nothing but the car was damaged.)
The back end of the car was smashed in. The rear window shattered. The trunk crumpled and couldn't be closed. The repair estimate came to $9000, so the insurance declared the car totaled. They'll give us $13000 toward a replacement, and they've been covering a rental. We're currently planning to start looking at options tomorrow.
Scott's still on 2nd shift, so he was driving on unplowed roads. It was past midnight by the time he got home. We've had some nights with bad weather since then, and all three of us have been a bit edgy about him driving home that late.
I dealt with the annual LTD review, and they've decided to extend my benefits for another year. That was a huge weight off my mind.
I've scheduled three college visits for Cordelia and am trying to pin down the best time for two more. We'll do EMU and U of M the week of spring break. MSU will be the day before she and her father go to see Dear Evan Hansen up that way (so they can just stay overnight).
Kalamazoo College and WMU visits will happen some time this summer. They make sense as things to combine with a visit to my family on that side of the state. I'm not sure how interested Cordelia is in either of those schools apart from the realization that those visits will fill awkward time with grandparents.
We may drag her out to Washtenaw Community College, too, just so that she knows where it is and how it's laid out.
Scott's birthday was at the beginning of this week. I missed the extended family gathering for his birthday because Friday's PT left me unable to move much over the weekend. Cordelia and I gave him season 2 of The Expanse and a game called Spirit Island that he and I have both wanted to try.
We were supposed to play Betrayal Legacy last Saturday, but one of our players forgot and went out of town, so we played the expansion for Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters instead. This was our first try at it, and we had abysmal dice luck. We lost the first game pretty rapidly because we couldn't get rid of any ghosts. (The ghost fighting mechanic is dice based. The players roll 1 or 2 dice, depending on how may player tokens are in the room right then. 3 faces of each die have ghosts on them. If any of those come up, a ghost in the room vanishes.)
I've had four PT appointments for my knee so far. We're trying a lot of different exercises because it's really hard for me to be my hamstrings to do anything at all without making the knee worse or getting my quadriceps very sore. We also haven't found anything that works for stretching my calf muscles. We spent most of today's appointment on that.
While Scott was driving home from work on the 17th, the car spun out and went into a ditch. He was a long way from help, so we're lucky that the car could still be driven. (He called the insurance; they said that staying and calling the police wasn't necessary since no other vehicles were involved and since nothing but the car was damaged.)
The back end of the car was smashed in. The rear window shattered. The trunk crumpled and couldn't be closed. The repair estimate came to $9000, so the insurance declared the car totaled. They'll give us $13000 toward a replacement, and they've been covering a rental. We're currently planning to start looking at options tomorrow.
Scott's still on 2nd shift, so he was driving on unplowed roads. It was past midnight by the time he got home. We've had some nights with bad weather since then, and all three of us have been a bit edgy about him driving home that late.
I dealt with the annual LTD review, and they've decided to extend my benefits for another year. That was a huge weight off my mind.
I've scheduled three college visits for Cordelia and am trying to pin down the best time for two more. We'll do EMU and U of M the week of spring break. MSU will be the day before she and her father go to see Dear Evan Hansen up that way (so they can just stay overnight).
Kalamazoo College and WMU visits will happen some time this summer. They make sense as things to combine with a visit to my family on that side of the state. I'm not sure how interested Cordelia is in either of those schools apart from the realization that those visits will fill awkward time with grandparents.
We may drag her out to Washtenaw Community College, too, just so that she knows where it is and how it's laid out.
Scott's birthday was at the beginning of this week. I missed the extended family gathering for his birthday because Friday's PT left me unable to move much over the weekend. Cordelia and I gave him season 2 of The Expanse and a game called Spirit Island that he and I have both wanted to try.
We were supposed to play Betrayal Legacy last Saturday, but one of our players forgot and went out of town, so we played the expansion for Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters instead. This was our first try at it, and we had abysmal dice luck. We lost the first game pretty rapidly because we couldn't get rid of any ghosts. (The ghost fighting mechanic is dice based. The players roll 1 or 2 dice, depending on how may player tokens are in the room right then. 3 faces of each die have ghosts on them. If any of those come up, a ghost in the room vanishes.)
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Date: 2020-02-29 04:51 am (UTC)I can only imagine. It's been one thing after another for your family but this gives you a little bit of breathing space.
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Date: 2020-02-29 12:12 pm (UTC)And so grateful your LTD approval went through. Whew.
Good luck with the college search. Where does the time go?
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Date: 2020-02-29 12:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-02-29 01:31 pm (UTC)