In the midst of all this fire stuff, I do have a prayer request for Sean's appointment tomorrow. Sean has been battling bladder infections ever since the transplant and this last one (for the last month or so) seems to be particularly nasty. He's already been on antibiotics for two weeks and he still winces or cries every time he pees - he says "it burns and feels like it's bleeding." Pray that I'll be able to convince his urologist that we really need to find out why he keeps getting these, because he tends to just prescribe another antibiotic and let it go. They see blood and bacteria in his urine every single time he gets labs but if the numbers are low enough the urologist just lets it go, and I'm not sure I'm okay with that anymore. I'd really like to investigate further.
So please pray for us tomorrow. I'm sure Sean won't like all the tests already scheduled, much less any new ones I make them do, but I'd really like to get some answers.
God Bless!
Laurie
Thursday, July 31, 2008
New address
We were successful in finding a temporary place to stay. I signed the papers yesterday and we moved in last night - a 2BR, 2bath completely furnished apartment right here in town. It's about halfway between our house and Leah's, right next to the Fareway, which is kind of convenient. :)
Anyway, keep using our regular address and phone, etc. I'm going to call Mediacom today and see if I can sweet-talk them into moving our internet/phone/cable over to the apartment for 2 months so we don't have to pay double.
Tomorrow (Friday) the "movers" are coming to extract every single thing we own and move it to a storage facility in DM. I didn't know they were doing that until yesterday so now I'm kind of frantically packing stuff to take to the apartment and labeling stuff I don't want them to throw away (a lot of our photo albums and our wedding album were upstairs and are now covered in soot.) Everything I don't label they're going to try to clean and if it's too much work they'll just throw it away, so I also grabbed as many of Sean's transformers as I could find and all the baby toys - they said anything plastic like that would likely just get tossed and they wouldn't bother cleaning all of Grace's dolls so if we want to keep them we need to take them out of here today.
Sean has a doctor appointment in Iowa City tomorrow so I can't be here so that will be weird, to just come home to a completely empty house! Poor Shadow. We still haven't really figured out what to do with him yet.
We still have not yet received our clean clothes from the dry cleaners so I'm hoping to also call them so we can have some clothes back! There is a ton of storage at the apartment so that will be so awesome to keep some of our own belongings there, where we know it won't get smoky. I'm afraid all the clothes we've been wearing all week are probably going to have to be thrown away they're so dirty and smoky.
Anyway, I will post more if I can think of anything, but I just wanted to let y'all know that we do have a place to stay for the 2 months and that our insurance is still taking really good care of us. The movers are coming tomorrow, then the construction starts on Monday (hopefully) and the cleaners will probably wait until towards the end to come clean the house and make it smell better.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
Laurie
Anyway, keep using our regular address and phone, etc. I'm going to call Mediacom today and see if I can sweet-talk them into moving our internet/phone/cable over to the apartment for 2 months so we don't have to pay double.
Tomorrow (Friday) the "movers" are coming to extract every single thing we own and move it to a storage facility in DM. I didn't know they were doing that until yesterday so now I'm kind of frantically packing stuff to take to the apartment and labeling stuff I don't want them to throw away (a lot of our photo albums and our wedding album were upstairs and are now covered in soot.) Everything I don't label they're going to try to clean and if it's too much work they'll just throw it away, so I also grabbed as many of Sean's transformers as I could find and all the baby toys - they said anything plastic like that would likely just get tossed and they wouldn't bother cleaning all of Grace's dolls so if we want to keep them we need to take them out of here today.
Sean has a doctor appointment in Iowa City tomorrow so I can't be here so that will be weird, to just come home to a completely empty house! Poor Shadow. We still haven't really figured out what to do with him yet.
We still have not yet received our clean clothes from the dry cleaners so I'm hoping to also call them so we can have some clothes back! There is a ton of storage at the apartment so that will be so awesome to keep some of our own belongings there, where we know it won't get smoky. I'm afraid all the clothes we've been wearing all week are probably going to have to be thrown away they're so dirty and smoky.
Anyway, I will post more if I can think of anything, but I just wanted to let y'all know that we do have a place to stay for the 2 months and that our insurance is still taking really good care of us. The movers are coming tomorrow, then the construction starts on Monday (hopefully) and the cleaners will probably wait until towards the end to come clean the house and make it smell better.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
Laurie
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Fire Update
We met with the adjustor and the contractor yesterday and today and it looks like things are finally starting to move a little bit. Here is the general scoop:
We will definitely be displaced for the next 6-8 weeks if not more, so we are working on getting our insurance company to rent an apartment here in town for us. In the meantime we're mostly staying at a local hotel. Our phone and Internet still work and we have to come back to the house at least 2-3 times a day to let Shadow out so just keep using our regular numbers/addresses.
Jacob went back to Sheldon with his grandparents for a few weeks but since Sean has a doctor appointment in Iowa City this Friday he had to stay home for now (that's a whole 'nother story - lots of nasty UTI's lately so I definitely didn't want to cancel the appointment.)
Our insurance does not allow for homeowners' participation in the construction so it does not help us to have people come over and tear stuff down or do the drywalling or whatever. They will pay the contractor and professional cleaners directly. We can still use help with sorting through the mess upstairs and making piles of what we can save and making lists of what we can't so we can eventually be reimbursed, so definitely let us know ASAP if that's something you can help with. Mark also suggested that if people really want to come over, we plan to take advantage of the dumpster being here and go through the cellar and throw stuff away - all the recent flooding has destroyed a bunch of boxes and stuff down there too and we haven't really done anything about it yet because we didn't know where to bring it all.
It doesn't sound like anything is going to get done this week yet so that leaves us a little time to sort through the mess upstairs and find a place to live before they start destroying our house. (Right now the estimate is at $46,000 so I imagine it will be a BIG mess!) In the meantime, we did go to Goodwill to get a few items for everybody and we're gradually moving more and more stuff into our van, so we're doing okay. If anybody has an extra set of suitcases, we might like to use those instead of plastic bags once we get some clothes back from the dry-cleaners. (Right now we each only have two sets of clothes anyway so it doesn't matter a whole bunch.)
That's all I can think of for now. Mark started his Habitat job today so it's just me and Sean and Grace here and I think we need to go find a hotel for the night. Thanks for reading and talk to you later!
Laurie
We will definitely be displaced for the next 6-8 weeks if not more, so we are working on getting our insurance company to rent an apartment here in town for us. In the meantime we're mostly staying at a local hotel. Our phone and Internet still work and we have to come back to the house at least 2-3 times a day to let Shadow out so just keep using our regular numbers/addresses.
Jacob went back to Sheldon with his grandparents for a few weeks but since Sean has a doctor appointment in Iowa City this Friday he had to stay home for now (that's a whole 'nother story - lots of nasty UTI's lately so I definitely didn't want to cancel the appointment.)
Our insurance does not allow for homeowners' participation in the construction so it does not help us to have people come over and tear stuff down or do the drywalling or whatever. They will pay the contractor and professional cleaners directly. We can still use help with sorting through the mess upstairs and making piles of what we can save and making lists of what we can't so we can eventually be reimbursed, so definitely let us know ASAP if that's something you can help with. Mark also suggested that if people really want to come over, we plan to take advantage of the dumpster being here and go through the cellar and throw stuff away - all the recent flooding has destroyed a bunch of boxes and stuff down there too and we haven't really done anything about it yet because we didn't know where to bring it all.
It doesn't sound like anything is going to get done this week yet so that leaves us a little time to sort through the mess upstairs and find a place to live before they start destroying our house. (Right now the estimate is at $46,000 so I imagine it will be a BIG mess!) In the meantime, we did go to Goodwill to get a few items for everybody and we're gradually moving more and more stuff into our van, so we're doing okay. If anybody has an extra set of suitcases, we might like to use those instead of plastic bags once we get some clothes back from the dry-cleaners. (Right now we each only have two sets of clothes anyway so it doesn't matter a whole bunch.)
That's all I can think of for now. Mark started his Habitat job today so it's just me and Sean and Grace here and I think we need to go find a hotel for the night. Thanks for reading and talk to you later!
Laurie
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