Hanging back, until!

I was hanging back around here not wanting to tax myself too much today.  It was Friday, and the noon luncheon was on up at the activity center.  I didn’t look to see what the soup was so as not to tempt myself into straining my back.

And I was doing a good job of resting for recovery, until it got to be around 5 PM.  That is when I got a wild hair to go back out to the Toyota dealer and look at the gun metal gray Camary that I had spotted two days ago.

Ridding in the truck out there hurt the bad spot like crazy.  Loyce drove, as she is doing much better than I am.  But still the truck feels every indentation in the road. Ouch!

Well one thing led to another, and we made what we thought was a good deal, and we now own the Camary.  It is brand new.  I said I wasn’t ever going to buy another new car since we had such an education in used ones this past summer.  So,  I lied! 

We do not know how the insurance will settle out on the Corolla, and should they not total the car we will be in biggggggggggg trouble.  So I might have over stepped.   But there is no way that the Corolla could be fixed by the time we want to go home, and I really do not want that car back anyway.  Not as a wrecked rebuild.

So now I am sitting here with a badly overtaxed sore back, from not staying put and resting like I should.  I guess I never did learn to color between the lines.

Retired Rod

New Glasses

The accident is taking its toll on me with extreme pain in my left side.  It is most likely a broken rib, which can not be treated since you have to breath.  So it is a grin and bear it kind of deal.

So with elastic chest brace and a walking stick from our trip to Colorado this summer, I went to an eye appointment.  My glasses were smashed against my face as we rolled.  The roof of the car, as it caved in must have done this. 

Now sit down here in front of this machine.  And now this one, and so it went as I slowly lowered myself into position trying not to flex that magic rib in my back.

So the new glasses are on order, and will take 10 days to be made.  In the mean time the gal bent and glued things together on the old pair so I can continue to see.

I have not heard anything more from the insurance adjusters today, so I hung tight around the RV after the dilation of my eyes.  Loyce took the truck and headed out to the stores during the afternoon, while riding in the truck for me is on an as absolutely necessary basis.  Yeow!

I’m sorry that doesn’t make for exciting adventures for the blog reporting, but it is what it is.

Retired Rod

A broken rib?

Somewhere in the middle of the night, I decided that I must have a broken rib.  The point of the pain is on the left side of my back next to the bottom of my shoulder blade.  It gets to hurting more as the night progresses.

I got up this morning, thinking I would go to the doctor’s office and see what they could do.  But upon googling broken rib, I learned that they can’t do much for you, except give you strong pain killers.  I’m not sure I want that, so, I got out of the mood to go to the doctor.

My chief concern, is the folks in the waiting room that have the worst colds possible.  They sneeze all over the room, and I come away sicker than I was when I went in.  With a cracked rib, the last thing I need is a cough.  Or a cold for that matter.

So I just hung around for the day.  Loyce seems to be over the worst of her trauma, and went to the laundry.  She had sacked up everything in the whole house as a possible item to be washed.  She had all the stuff that was in the car, as the car and our jackets ended up full of sand when we were upside down.

So while she washed, I emailed the insurance adjuster.  Pictures of the car, and information about the towing company.  Then questions about where we might get a value for the replacement car.

Seems that the adjuster must be talking to higher ups, because some of the story has changed, as to how this will all work its way out.  Any way you look at it, we will be spending our own money to replace the car over the adjustment that will be offered.  I’m sure I will know more in the days that are ahead.

It got hot here this afternoon, as my son Ben called and I got to talk to the grandkids when they were home from school.  It was 85 according to a neighbor here next door.  I got up in all my pain, and cranked shut the windows and turned on the AC.  That fixed things up nicely.

In another two hours, the sun went down, and the heat was gone, just like that.  Now its midnight, and Loyce turned on the electric heater.  Big swings in temperature in the winter desert.

Tonight, when we went out to get some supper, we went to a CVS drugstore and bought a back support brace.  The elastic kind with the Velcro closures.  I’m using it to support the rib, and that seems to ease the pain some.

The many web sites that explain this malady, all said it will take six weeks for the rib to heal.  That should be fun!

Retired Rod

Post Crash day one.

We thank each and everyone of you for your kind comments.  They are appreciated. 

It was surreal to go out to the salvage yard in Maricopa, and clean out our stuff into the pickup.  They wanted the title, in order for us to get our stuff.   No dice!  I told them the insurance company wants the title, and I already mailed it to them.

Yes the adjuster will want the title, and at some point I will have to send it, but should I give it to a chop shop?  I still have trauma from the accident, but not that much.  They would tell the insurance co that the storage charges equaled the value of the car so they sold it.  Then it would be back on me.

As we looked at the car in the light of day, and right side up, we wonder how we rode thru such a violent  crash.  There is literally no part of the car that is not broken.  Dirt and broken glass is all thru the interior, and both the front and back windows are gone.

I took some more pictures, but I will only send them to the Insurance Company.  Too nasty for the blog.

We are sore and tired since we didn’t sleep much at all last night.  My knee was cut pretty badly and Loyce dressed it this morning, removing the bandage that the paramedics had put on.

Ah that made it feel better in about a half an hour.  We are both feeling it in our backs, and I am the worst of the two of us.  I was on the bottom side of the car as it slid on the ground, and the energy of the speed partially dissipated thru me.

I am leaned just so as I type this so as not to strain the muscles that are yelling at me.  All and all we have fared better than we could have expected.

We are in contact with the Insurance Co and they are being quite nice so far. None of that “dummy what in the heck did you do that for” kind of attitude. But the settlement is not here yet either.

I smashed my glasses against the roof of the car as it collapsed when we were upside down, so I now need to go find an optometrist.  That will have to wait until tomorrow.

Retired Rod