I am finally in the mood to do some writing. I know it has been a long time since the last update - sorry. But I just wrote a letter to the editor about the uptown Kingston goat situation and it got me into the mood to do some writing.
So, lets see what has happened in the last two months. First, we have all been recovering psychologically from the death of Will in late July. That takes a while. We all still miss him and family activities are not the same without him. But we go on.
Maybe I mentioned it earlier (I don’t remember and wont look it up) but one good byproduct of the broken ribs was that they found that I have an aneurysm on my abdominal aorta. So September was spent going to various doctors about it. Apparently it was growing fast enough that action needed to be taken soon. So visits to the vascular doctor and the heart doctor were made. So was another cat scan. (No, I do not glow yet from all the X-rays). So, after all this the surgery to put a stent in my chest by means of an endoscopy was done on October 6. I was in the hospital only two days, but the incisions made it necessary to take it easy in terms of lifting things. Walking was encouraged. There have been followup visits and there will be another catscan next Tuesday. I have become a bit of a nuisance in the family after all the and Will about the need for looking for these aneurysms. Apparently my paternal line has a history of broken blood vessels. My father’s father died on a canoe outing from a heart attack - or was it - medicine in the 1910's was not into autopsies and things so we dont know. My father was found dead on the floor of a shower - so we don’t know if it was heart, stroke or what. So, I am encouraging everyone to think about having the ultrasound test for aneurysms. Enough.
The rib situation is that that is all over - I am fine. But the auto accident is not all over. The two insurance companies agreed that it was the other guys fault and his insurance company payed back mine everything including my deductible. Now he has gone to some lawyers and I am being sued for pain and suffering. The insurance company is handling it and it will go on for some time. They are just firing memos back and forth at this point.
But the best news at this point is that as I write is that our basement is getting cleaned from the flooding that accompanied Irene. Unfortunately, because it was flooding, the insurance company is not paying for it. There are three guys down there sweeping, washing and so forth. It will be great to get this over with, and then we can put things that have been stored in the Big Room back down where they belong. But there are still things that have to be thrown out that will be up to us.
But now we can start looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas and make some plans. Ann has been looking at catalogs for quite a while. She gets up to 10 of them a day. And she has earned a free turkey from Shoprite. I have still to get into the mood for all of this. And I have to get into the mood to write a Christmas letter. But I will.
So that about covers things around here. Sorry that I cannot write as humourously as Kelly does - see her blog on ‘ Red House Nine’. But I do what I can! Till later.
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