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Monday eve. Getting ready to get a shower and get to bed.....early morning to leave for Durham NC for an ankle dr appt. Had PT today and he did some measurements on the angles the ankle will go, and general info on the progress. He says he thinks I would benefit from a few more weeks therapy, especially since I got a "late start" due to the longer than expected restrictive boot when I couldn't get in for the appt and x-rays in April. Plus, they are helping with some knee movement, exercises etc.... and I really would like to keep it going. Of course he is the ankle replacement dr.... but hoping that he will keep me going for a little bit to help with the knees which is helping with the ankle as movement is a little freer in the ankle with the knees doing some stretching etc....
The PT is going to give my name to one of his patients that had knee replacement done at a dr that I am considering. I asked if there was anyone who would talk to me about what they liked/didn't like about this dr..... I have heard good things. He couldn't give me the persons name, but I said he could give my name to this person so they can call me and we could talk. Won't hurt to get a patients opinion.
I also talked to an "older man" who was coming out when I went in, and he has major ankle problems.....has seen the dr I talked to a couple of years ago and they say he is not a good candidate for a replacement.... I told him about what a good experience I had overall, and told him to consider going to my ankle Dr at Duke, and at least get another opinion. I looked nearly 5 years to find this one and am SOOOOOOO glad I did. Maybe he can't help this other man, but what is a consultation appt going to hurt? I would love for him to go there and find that Dr Adams could maybe do something to help him. My PT guy said that of course he couldn't disclose info but that they guy had some major issues with his ankle, and that he didn't have alot of options at this point. Well, my "option" was FUSE IT by about 6 different doctors.... and look where I am. I really hope he at least looks into it.
Sunny and humid today, supposed to have 60% chance of showers and got one quick little one that barely got the roads wet. Tomorrow supposed to be even more chance then several days of clearing off and drier. Will probably cut hay tomorrow if it doesn't wind up raining again... or cut it at least on Wed.
Dropped meters off at the farm that tests their own cows, will pick up on Wed morning. Have PT Wed morning, drop off the rental car that I am driving down tomorrow, get the meters and stuff, stop by the house and get the rest of the meters, and then take to the big farm that I am going to test Wed aft/Thurs morning. Going to be a long day Wed......
Looked at another company that does the storage buildings, got a few more ideas/prices. Lady spent quite a bit of time with me and various possibilities which impressed me. Prices right in that 5,000 range. They have a "July sale" of 7% off if you pay cash/check..... That's 2-400 all according to what I "order"....
Habitat "Restores" are closed here except for appts. ; not very productive there.
The guys didn't come back to my son's property today.... I understood them to say they had a couple of other jobs they were behind on.... and they had to "start" my sons in order to comply with the "land disturbance" permits..... this way they can get an automatic renewal since the job is started. So that might work in my favor on the house and the boxwoods/tree removal as far as the closing and it taking place before I get it done. Talked to the ins lady for a few minutes, we tossed around the amount that I might want to insure for..... since I am putting down 20% only have to actually insure for the borrowed amount... but I told her I would rather go higher, like 100,000, since it would take all of that to rebuild the existing structure anyway.... plus it gives me more on the outbuildings.... she is going on vacation next week and so we will talk after July 6th which is plenty of time before the possible closing of July 18th at the earliest. I said I was looking at the week of July 20th....
Got the little truck moved for the guy who is working/helping us. Got to sit down and see what we can come up with as a fair deal as far as # hours worked in exchange for the truck.... Also got another mower that was at the previous mechanics shop.... she is closed up and selling the property since her mother got sick and she had to take care of her and then passed away. It is in pretty good shape, and since mine has steering issues now, can hopefully make one good one out of the 2 and have a few extra parts. Both engines are pretty good, extra mowing deck, blades, all that sort of stuff. So he is going to see what all it needs and get it running so that I can use it. Also a friend of his has a smallish little trailer for sale for 150 that the mower will fit on; and since I can't seem to get my son to do things since he is back seeing the GF that messed his head up while he was recooperating from the broken femur..... I need to get something to use to be able to move it back and forth to both houses while I am working on the new one and still living at the rental. Then I will have the freedom of doing it myself. Those small trailers cost more than that, and I can put a "slow moving vehicle triangle" on it to just go the 5 miles or so back and forth. And it will be mine to do with what I want, WHEN I want or need to. Another small expense that I wasn't counting on, but my son had promised for the last 3 weeks to go get the truck after getting after me to find out about it, and didn't do it. So when the mower was also available, I decided that it needed to be done and he got a guy to go get both at the same time.
Guess that's all the news for right now. Gotta get going....
The PT is going to give my name to one of his patients that had knee replacement done at a dr that I am considering. I asked if there was anyone who would talk to me about what they liked/didn't like about this dr..... I have heard good things. He couldn't give me the persons name, but I said he could give my name to this person so they can call me and we could talk. Won't hurt to get a patients opinion.
I also talked to an "older man" who was coming out when I went in, and he has major ankle problems.....has seen the dr I talked to a couple of years ago and they say he is not a good candidate for a replacement.... I told him about what a good experience I had overall, and told him to consider going to my ankle Dr at Duke, and at least get another opinion. I looked nearly 5 years to find this one and am SOOOOOOO glad I did. Maybe he can't help this other man, but what is a consultation appt going to hurt? I would love for him to go there and find that Dr Adams could maybe do something to help him. My PT guy said that of course he couldn't disclose info but that they guy had some major issues with his ankle, and that he didn't have alot of options at this point. Well, my "option" was FUSE IT by about 6 different doctors.... and look where I am. I really hope he at least looks into it.
Sunny and humid today, supposed to have 60% chance of showers and got one quick little one that barely got the roads wet. Tomorrow supposed to be even more chance then several days of clearing off and drier. Will probably cut hay tomorrow if it doesn't wind up raining again... or cut it at least on Wed.
Dropped meters off at the farm that tests their own cows, will pick up on Wed morning. Have PT Wed morning, drop off the rental car that I am driving down tomorrow, get the meters and stuff, stop by the house and get the rest of the meters, and then take to the big farm that I am going to test Wed aft/Thurs morning. Going to be a long day Wed......
Looked at another company that does the storage buildings, got a few more ideas/prices. Lady spent quite a bit of time with me and various possibilities which impressed me. Prices right in that 5,000 range. They have a "July sale" of 7% off if you pay cash/check..... That's 2-400 all according to what I "order"....
Habitat "Restores" are closed here except for appts. ; not very productive there.
The guys didn't come back to my son's property today.... I understood them to say they had a couple of other jobs they were behind on.... and they had to "start" my sons in order to comply with the "land disturbance" permits..... this way they can get an automatic renewal since the job is started. So that might work in my favor on the house and the boxwoods/tree removal as far as the closing and it taking place before I get it done. Talked to the ins lady for a few minutes, we tossed around the amount that I might want to insure for..... since I am putting down 20% only have to actually insure for the borrowed amount... but I told her I would rather go higher, like 100,000, since it would take all of that to rebuild the existing structure anyway.... plus it gives me more on the outbuildings.... she is going on vacation next week and so we will talk after July 6th which is plenty of time before the possible closing of July 18th at the earliest. I said I was looking at the week of July 20th....
Got the little truck moved for the guy who is working/helping us. Got to sit down and see what we can come up with as a fair deal as far as # hours worked in exchange for the truck.... Also got another mower that was at the previous mechanics shop.... she is closed up and selling the property since her mother got sick and she had to take care of her and then passed away. It is in pretty good shape, and since mine has steering issues now, can hopefully make one good one out of the 2 and have a few extra parts. Both engines are pretty good, extra mowing deck, blades, all that sort of stuff. So he is going to see what all it needs and get it running so that I can use it. Also a friend of his has a smallish little trailer for sale for 150 that the mower will fit on; and since I can't seem to get my son to do things since he is back seeing the GF that messed his head up while he was recooperating from the broken femur..... I need to get something to use to be able to move it back and forth to both houses while I am working on the new one and still living at the rental. Then I will have the freedom of doing it myself. Those small trailers cost more than that, and I can put a "slow moving vehicle triangle" on it to just go the 5 miles or so back and forth. And it will be mine to do with what I want, WHEN I want or need to. Another small expense that I wasn't counting on, but my son had promised for the last 3 weeks to go get the truck after getting after me to find out about it, and didn't do it. So when the mower was also available, I decided that it needed to be done and he got a guy to go get both at the same time.
Guess that's all the news for right now. Gotta get going....