UPDATE: Went to surgeon this AM. Good report. He stated I'm healing well. I still have lower back pain that has been worse this past week. He said that it was partly from the weather (cold and damp) this past week. He told me I would continue to heal over the next 9 months but I have healed to the point that I could not do anything to harm my back (he doesn't know me very well does he?). The best part of the office visit, he is going to let me start taking anti-inflammatory meds again (that is the only med that helps my back pain). The second best part - I get to go back to work Wednesday. I went by the hospital on my way home to let them know, they are almost as relieved as I am. I am actually looking forward to going back to work and feeling productive again.
After leaving the hospital, my day really began. I had planned to come home, clean house, sew a little, walk and a few other things. I went by the pharmacy to get my Rx filled. Came out, started to drive off and noticed my car driving badly. Pulled across the street to an Auto Zone. Got out to check - What? I'm a girl. I did notice I had a flat tire - on the ground flat. I called a tire center just 3 blocks away and asked if they could send someone up to change my tire. The girl said, "No, we don't do that." I told her I had just spent $600 on tires a few months ago at her business and they couldn't send someone just 3 blocks to help. They will no longer get my business - which with a farm, large truck, tractor, horse trailer, etc = many tires. I went into Auto Zone to see if they could help me. The man behind the counter asked if I had Triple A. I had gotten so upset by that time, I had forgotten about them. Besides, I was hoping someone there could help me. No such thing as being neighborly friendly.
I go back to the car and it takes me 10 minutes to find the Triple A card. I call and get an operator who obviously doesn't understand me. She had to ask her questions 2-3 times each, plus she is talking with a mouth full of mush. After a 20 minute conversation, she finally tells me she has contacted a service and they are sending a man to help me.
Here I am waiting in a rapidly warming car, nothing to eat, been gone from home since 6 AM and it is now after 12. I am told the help will be there in approximately 45 minutes to an hour. 2 hours later, no help. Another person calls from Triple A to see if I have had assistance. When told no, she stated she would check on it and call me back. I hang up and the phone rings. It's the "help" wanting to know directions to where I am, if he comes Highway 21. I ask him from which direction is he coming, that will let me know what to tell him. We finally get that straight, but I am so worked up by now, I forgot to ask where he was, which would have given me an idea of how much longer I had to wait. Turned out the whole ordeal lasted about 3 and a half hours. Took the tire to a service station for repair and it had a piece of metal in it. Still have to buy a new tire real soon. Needless to say the things I had planned to do today will not get done.
Oh, I forgot. On top of all of this, I got a message that the roof to Mom's house has a leak in it. Now why could that have not happened while I had all day, any day to go take care of it. No, it has to happen now as I am about to go back to work. So tonight, I have to go digging through Mom's papers and find the paperwork when she had the roof replaced. Then contact the insurance agent and I don't know what else.
Tomorrow, there is voting for local elections, including govenor. Going to a CPA to get some IRS papers filled out on Mom's estate (I tried doing them but there are 48 pages of instructions to 2 sheets that need to be filled out - decided it wasn't worth it, I'll pay to have it done). The good news just keeps piling up.
I decided that the only good that came out of today, besides getting to go back to work was I got a blog out of it. After all Greg says that's what a day is all about, whether or not you can blog about it. Guess I had a great day from that prospective.