Not a Typical Post-Treatment Day

1. Wake up super early to be ready for the arrival of the construction crew.

2. Go to make coffee and discover the coffee maker is broken.

3. Text all coffee-loving friends about my tragedy.

4. Meet with crew to discuss changes to the plans due to its-a-really-really-old-house-so-lots-of-surprises.

5. Drive 35 miles to shop for different bathroom fixtures needed due to changes. See previous item for reason. (Bonus: lots of coffee shops in this city)

6. Get back home and realize I forgot something. Thank goodness for online ordering and my utterly amazing contractor who is willing to pick everything up and make all the returns.

7. Started feeling light-headed mid-afternoon and realized that ingesting something besides coffee would be helpful. (It was.)

8. Cleaned floors thanks to demo crew (some) and dogs (mostly).

9. Role play as an etymologist to identify a photo of a bug sent to me. Feel slightly scientific.

10. Receive call from my neurologist office that health insurance has approved all the pre-op scans to map the brain surgery, but not the brain surgery. My neurologist has a peer-to-peer meeting next week to plead my case to the pencil-pushers.

11. Rant and rave about my opinion of health insurance to anyone within ear shot. Have a good cry. Ask God if it is a sin to wish them all dead, since that is what they wish for me. ( I know, God. I’m still just ranting a little here.)

12. Learn that shower walls ordered on 3/28 and due to arrive 4/10 (yep – today) won’t ship until 4/25 due to “unusually high sales volume.” This means my bathroom will not be done before my surgery, if there even is a surgery. See previous 2 items for my snarkiness. Looks like I will be sharing a bathroom with the guys a bit longer than expected.

13. Evening telephone chat with my contractor about a few more questions and a reminder that they will arrive at 7:30 am tomorrow.

14, Set alarm on my phone to remember to text Dave my coffee order so he can get it on the way home from the overnight shift.

15. Madi inspects the day’s work. All electrical lines run today and light/heat/exhaust installed. Also some behind- the-scenes plumbing done. Refer again to item #4. She found a roll of electrical tape left behind. Fun! She also found a pile of lumber outside and showed me how quickly she could relocate that pile when I left her outside too long. My contractor does not have a Madi. He will learn what that means on this job.