OMG Today was not fun (trigger)

[Pamster]

OMG, the car truly overheated and we think the water pump has gone or at least a seal in it has gone. I had such a horrible anxiety attack driving us there and back was worse, the car went past the red and PAST the H, it was so scary, I kept waiting for the engine to seize up...

It didn't and we managed to get it home but man I really HATE this, we got that paperwork signed and it's all done now so it's up to the big bosses as to what our answer is on moving in there in June. I am praying they give us the green light and that we'll be able to get some stuff moved in to the new place before we are spending the night there.

Jackie is getting sick on top of it, I feel bad myself and think that I won't be able to use the CPAP when I am sick over the weekend IF I come down with it like Jackie seems to be. They told me yesterday the whole school seems to be sick with some bug so it was inevitable that Jackie picked something up. I understand it's not easy to keep a child home sometimes, but you just gotta do what you gotta do.

I think he's staying home monday though, I will have to set up the medicaid transportation to his dr's office for next week. Oh well, like I said you gotta do what you gotta do. If it means taking him in the medical transport van then that's how we're going to get there because until the pump is fixed he is NOT going ANYWHERE IN the car...

Just not going to have it break down with him in it. I had to take 1/2 a avitan before we left and 1/2 when we got back because it was just so nervewracking seeing the water pump seal steaming around the leak. I don't know where we're going to find the money to get it repaired either, when it rains it pours. I am just grateful to be home...

Meeting the apartment manager was nice though, nice lady, hopefully things will work out soon and we'll get a firm Yes and get to go back down to put a deposit down. :) IF we're able to take the car there again, I can just see it overheating again but for real and seizing up on us. *sigh* I remember when it was a happy car. :)

[bizi]

Do you have AAA to tow it for you or another auto club card.
I am sorry about your car.
It is absolutely nerve racking to have your vehicle be unwell.
Yes do arrange for the transport service if it is available to you...like you said ...ya gotta do what you've gotta do.
(((HUGS)))
bizi

[Pamster]

I feel better, Jack is going to replace the water pump, life is good. Then it won't be an issue anymore so I feel better. :) I am so lucky he can work on the car, we have a book for it. If we get it done and it's driveable again then things will be good enough for me to use.

I can get the medical transport to take us to the dr's and use the car myself to get to where ever I have to go for shopping and all. I feel a lot better though now that we see it's going to be eight bolts pop old one out and input new one with new gasket and sealant. Then it will be happier then it is now leaking all its water all over the place. :p

No triple A yet, hopefully after we move I can get a membership paid for, so its covering the new car we want to get. I wish I had put water in the car this morning and it might not have gone into the red and PAST the H that was so hard to make myself drive it when it was like that, I was flipping out and Jack calmed me down...I am so grateful for my hubby. :) He's a keeper. ;)

[waves]

an overheated engine is no joke. i am so relieved you are having that pump fixed.

AAA membership was pretty cheap if i recall. (... but i may recall wrong, esp as my data is now.... wahhhhh... about 10 years old. almost 8 years waaaaaaaaahhhh... since my move out of the US.... waaaaahhhhh someone let this situational exile end. :( but there's no way.) thing is anyway, AAA covers a whole lotta stuff for you. bail you out of just about any mess all you need is a phone. if you travel, they even do traveler's checks, and make you a personalized "trip-tick" (map of route) for free. including gas stops. very useful driving through AZ and NM.

i'm going to dream-project myself into those bureaucrats heads and retrieve your approval to move in for you. how's that! :p :cool:

take care dear. be careful with your car, till its fixed i'm so relieved at that. staying alive is more important than going anywhere, even to pee, tho eventually you will get kidney trouble if you hold it too long.

now you know i had to say something silly. otherwise its a counterfeit post! lol!

~ waves ~ a magic wand for your home confirmation

[am I Clearly Me?]

Glad you have someone to fix your car for you; so many auto shops are rip-offs these days, if not just plain overpriced to a lesser degree. I went through something similar recently. Fortunately, a friend's husband was trained as a mechanic & was able to do the work for me. Don't know what I'd have done, otherwise.

[Pamster]

an overheated engine is no joke. i am so relieved you are having that pump fixed.

I am too, he wants to wait until Jackie is in school again so I don't know if it's going to be monday or tuesday, but it is getting fixed. :)


AAA membership was pretty cheap if i recall. (... but i may recall wrong, esp as my data is now.... wahhhhh... about 10 years old. almost 8 years waaaaaaaaahhhh... since my move out of the US.... waaaaahhhhh someone let this situational exile end. :( but there's no way.) thing is anyway, AAA covers a whole lotta stuff for you. bail you out of just about any mess all you need is a phone. if you travel, they even do traveler's checks, and make you a personalized "trip-tick" (map of route) for free. including gas stops. very useful driving through AZ and NM.

I am getting a cell phone after we move, I can hardly wait to get in there, it's a gorgeous place though it will mean more work for me keeping three bedrooms and two bathrooms clean I think it will be worth it.

i'm going to dream-project myself into those bureaucrats heads and retrieve your approval to move in for you. how's that! :p :cool:

Thanks waves, I really appreciate the help. ;) I think we're as good as in though because she didn't say anything on my credit report (only one medical bill) would prevent them from saying yes so I am not too worried about it now.

take care dear. be careful with your car, till its fixed i'm so relieved at that. staying alive is more important than going anywhere, even to pee, tho eventually you will get kidney trouble if you hold it too long.

now you know i had to say something silly. otherwise its a counterfeit post! lol!

~ waves ~ a magic wand for your home confirmation

LOL! That reminds me of my mom's saying of poop happens...if you eat regularly. :) Of course she doesn't say poop. ;) LOL! :D

Glad you have someone to fix your car for you; so many auto shops are rip-offs these days, if not just plain overpriced to a lesser degree. I went through something similar recently. Fortunately, a friend's husband was trained as a mechanic & was able to do the work for me. Don't know what I'd have done, otherwise.

Oh man you're so not kidding am I Clearly Me? I called the shop I had my started done at and they quoted me $178 BUCKS! The new pump was $23! So it's significant, and the book itself we have which details and photos was only about $12 and worth every penny. I am so happy that my hubby is able to do small things to it, the mechanic said it was a two hour job and the pump is not buried down in the engine thankfully it's exposed and easily accessable. :D

[houghchrst]

I know what it is like. If it weren't for my bf we would be carless. One nice thing is that not only did we have his preexisting knowledge but he is going to college to become a certified mechanic so it comes in very handy. I hope your hubby has an easy time of it. We will soon be a two car family. We have had one sitting in back for over a year that he rebuilt the engine and we finally have the money to get it legal so Monday the SOS will run a check and make sure they can get me the title. Anyway, I hope all goes well with both the car and the house.

[Pamster]

Thanks for caring Christina, I really am glad it's just the pump. I still have major anxiety about the car at the moment because I have to drive it this way to go shopping this weekend and I am dreading it, I feel the anxiety just welling up in my guts as I am just thinking about it. :p

I am glad your hubby is going to college for mechanics, that definitely comes in handy. :D How have you been? :D

[houghchrst]

I'm alright I guess. Off any psych meds except the Cymbalta and I think that is making me feel sick. Nausea, mildly depressed, tired, listless, I just don't feel like I want to do anything most of the time. The weather is beautiful out but I have been in so much pain that I don't even really want to go out because I know I can't really do the things I like to do things like get my backyard furniture out and plant my flowers, set up my firepit, just stuff that I barely managed to do last year. My bf says he will do what ever I ask but he works all day and I feel bad asking him to do all those things for me when he gets home. I haven't been here much because I feel like most of what I have to say is whining. There are others that are worse off than me. I see the pdoc the first or second week in May so she may put me on something different. Still haven't heard from my blood results regarding the Cushing's. Right now the MRI scans and other referrals are slowly trickling in and I hope to hear soon about the pain management referral. Thanks for asking.

I am sure your car will let you get to the store and back. Mine always waited til I got home before it died. How does that happen? ;)

[Pamster]

I am so sorry to hear you're in so much pain Christina, I woke up this morning in agony, took my meds and waited for an hour for it to go away and it kinda didn't, I felt bad all day so far. I really empathize with you on that. I wish you and I were both pain free. :( It must stink to not have those results yet, I hope they come in soon. You definitely need to get pain management assistance, it really does help. I don't always feel this way. There are good days and bad days. :p

On the good news front I have been hard at work editing my book, Walk of Fire, and hope to finish next week so that I can start sending out query letters to agents and see if I can interest one in the story. :) So wish me luck eveyrone. ;) I sure need it. But I think it's a great story and will sell well once someone with an open mind and time to read can address my queries. Meaning an agent with time on his hands and openings in their schedule. :D

[houghchrst]

Good Luck Pamster with your book.

[bizi]

Dear pamster,
Great news about your car!!!!
what is your book about????
:) bizi

[Pamster]

Thanks Christina, I am over halfway done with this last edit. I should finish it by next week. :) For a first novel it's not too bad I think. :D

I know isn't it great that it's something Jack can do? I am so pleased and looking forward to it getting fixed. :D My novel is called "Walk of Fire" and it's about a young man who loses a leg kind of like me, almost to the hip in a drunk driving accident. He is standing at a pay phone when a four car accident happens and an SUV crashes into him at the booth. He lives through it and the book covers his recovery and descent into depression and drug abuse.

His two best friends die in a car accident after Nick (that the main character) discovers a used needle in the trash in the bathroom at their apartment. So their deaths wake him up and he decides to move back home and get his life together. His mother gets him a computer and he meets a girl online and goes to a gathering in Ohio where he meets her and a lot of other people from the chat room he frequents. They fall in love and she moves to Florida to finish college near Nick.

The rest of the book is about their love and getting married and then having three kids. It ends on the day of Nick's mother's funeral, she died of Cancer and he reflects back on his life, noting how different he is from his own father who was hardly ever around, and he is happy his mother lived to see her grandkids born.

I think it's a great story and I wrote it because I had seen a amputee on Maury Povich's show back in 1996 after my son was born and she looked so sad, but she had much more stump left then I do, so I thought, why not write a novel about a young guy becoming an amputee and his struggle to accept himself as a disabled adult? And that is how "Walk of Fire" came into being. :)

Long post I know, but the synopsis is much longer...LOL! :D

[bizi]

This is a wonderful story.
((((HUGS))))
bizi

[Pamster]

Thanks Bizi! :D I will keep you all posted on how the agent search goes. ;) :D