Oh my goodness. I can't believe that picture. I hope you get to go back soon and that it isn't too bad.
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Oh my goodness. I can't believe that picture. I hope you get to go back soon and that it isn't too bad.
Okay, I'm very anxious for you to back home too. Just be careful even when you get back if water got into the house. You know the drill. :) Call and electrician and get verification from the gas company that there are no leaks in your area.
Just call me a worry wart. :)
hugs and love to you all,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
I sure hope everything is okay and the water did not go higher. I dont want to be a little mermaid in the non basement;)
Let us know you are ok when you can.
Addy isn't that what we were suppose to be for Halloween--Little Mermaids????
Wow!!!! That water is high. Good thing the house is up on higher ground or we would have been goners in the non-basement, but then you would have taken us with you, RIGHT???? :D
I hope you find everything in good shape but the yard. Your house is beautiful!!!!
((((HUGS))))
OK you little guppies. :) We are in our home. Water is not in our home. :D
We both worked outside as long as daylight would allow yesterday afternoon. We got back around 5 and had no electric. The water did get into the garage, but it was mostly "clean". It looks like maybe 4" in the garage. Last thing I did before leaving was raise stuff up 4 or so inches off the floor, where I could. I think if we had sand bagged the garage doors, no water would have gotten in.
The water comes from a salt pond and from the ocean. It is called back bay flooding. We have a five sided lot and two sides are "water front." This was the worst storm by 5 or 8" more than the other two we've experienced. The water backs up from behind us, gets into the street and on up the street. When the water subsides, the reverse happens......so we wind up with everyone else's mulch, debris, paint buckets in our yard. There was a good 3" covering of pine needles all over the yard. So cleanup is rough.....and I can't help a lot due to my surgery. So I did what I could and Bob worked on the rest.
The biggest problem (as far as I am concerned) is lack of sleep. My knee bothered me greatly one night. The next night I watched news all night to find out exactly where Sandy would come ashore. There was a 3 hour drive over and another back....and I hadn't driven since Oct 1's surgery.
There was a problem last night which made it necessary for me to get up get showered and dressed today @7:30. That was NOT my plan.....and I never had a moment to catch a nap today.
Marie Irene I called and called to get you to come with us when we left, but all I heard was giggling from the nonbasement. (Now maybe you understand why no one has basements here.) But I'm pleased to say the two sump pumps we had installed really handled what water there was very well....and they are still running.....:)
And that is all I can muster for now. I must get some sleep.
Thank you for your concerns.
Love,
Susan
yay! Great to hear from you and glad you are home and that home is dry. whoo hooo!
Take care of yourself and don't over do it. I know it's tempting, but woman, you just had surgery!
The stuff will be there tomorrow, or the next day or the day after. Baby steps.
(these super women, sheezzzzz) HUGS!
Just glad you are home and all is well.
hugs,
Sharlene
Thanks Sharlene. You seem to have my number!
I go to PT today-first time in a week. I didn't get a chance to report about my last visit. I go through about an hour of exercises and stretches. When they are finished, I get on a table and the owner/operator comes over and stretches, pulls, manipulates my knee, especially the knee cap. Now bear in mind this is at a minimum my fifth time through this......recoveries from knee surgeries, so I "know the drill." I long ago gave up my thinking that PT would feel good. The knee moving he does is the least pleasant. Last Friday it was the most uncomfortable it has ever been. I can bruise easily and I had already been thinking how bruised I was going to be. Then he starts pressing very HARD on my incision. I must have jumped up off the table a foot or two.....while repeating over and over......"OUCH!!" He eventually (!) backed off and kept saying "I am just pressing your incision." Finally he said..."OK, Susan." and he backed off.
I was telling Ryan about it that evening and after listening to the story he asked, "Did he apologize?" I thought for a minute and said...you know, he did not. I hobbled on out of there after 5 minutes of a 10 minute dry ice pack treatment......announcing I was done for the day!
This guy is really good at his profession. I once went to a different place and it was less stressful, but so were the results. I thought long and hard before deciding to go back to Bob, but with the knowledge of how well I am doing so quickly, I decided I could endure it. It'll be interesting to see how today's conversation goes.
Well, as you can see, I'm not succeeding very well at regulating my sleep. That will be my main project for the weekend. Bob plans to cut the grass today, to vacuum up the debris still on the grass. Then I think we're back to square one.
Sounds like highs of 55-ish for the next week....and I think popcorn and a movie or two, with a fire in the fireplace are what the doctor ordered. That means cuddle time with my pooch as well.
Have a safe, warm, enjoyable weekend.....and don't forget to VOTE on Tuesday!!!:D
-Susan
PS....I noticed while taking Bailey to the vet to get her ears checked out for what turned out to be an ear infection, that her knees were doing some popping. All that surgery was to correct that!! :mad: :confused:
We now have an appt with the surgical vet to get it checked out. That's ANOTHER trip to Annapolis. Bailey is no exhibiting any symptoms, thankfully. It's just one more thing.
s
Hi Susan,
Glad ya'll didn't sustain any more damage and especially that ya'll are unharmed. I hope the clean-up goes good.
Squirt had both knees done young, too, and if I had it to do over, I would haven't done them. I was told it would correct the patella slipping and prevent early arthritis. Didn't do either one. Within two years, her knees were slipping again and arthritis had set in. And we had to redo one knee summer before last when a pin came out of the bone. I can't say how they would be today had she not had the original surgery but I do know it didn't do as it was touted. I hope Bailey has better luck and this is nothing major.
Hugs,
Leslie
Oh, Leslie, that is not good news. We had 3 workers telling us to go ahead with this......Bailey's original vet, Bailey's current vet (took over office from first vet.) and an orthopedic specialist. For sure we will do nothing until (if) Bailey starts sowing signs of discomfort.
PT went okay. Since it had been a week in between visits, we just repeated the most recent exercises. Monday we will begin to increase weights.
Unfortunately, I had a very bad fall last night. I went to go back to bed and did not turn on the stair lights. I was being so very careful on my way down, got to what I thought was the bottom step and quickly learned it was not. I went crashing into a sofa table, a small trunk and whatever else was right there. I felt the table move forward, so it was off balance. I heard lots of crashing noises. Oddly nothing broke. (glass pieces, etc.) and today I look to be fine. Since I have this tendency to fall, I mastered protecting the knees whenever possible. I'm not sure how I went down, but I landed on my (now very sore) left cheekbone and would up sprawled across the floor on my front. Bob came running and Bailey came barking. Bailey thought I was a burglar.
The order for the weekend is LOTS of rest and sleep and NO MORE FALLING. :mad::mad::o:o:o
-ss