I am sitting here in the quiet and still of an empty house, finally! Not that I mind having a few extra hands around to help with the house and Caleb, but originally tonight was to be my night out w/ the girls from church and well the blizzard kind of ruined those plans. So after trying several times, Dean, the baby, and my mother in law headed out to find some food and anything other than the walls and rooms of this house! I was going to go despite how sick I feel but as they readied the van a news report showed a nine car accident on the highway right by our house, and the highway is the road that is cleared of the snow! So against my better judgement, they all trekked out, and I wasnt thrilled that my firstborn was going with them but I’ve talked to them several times via cell phone and they seem to be making it okay out there. The main roads are supposed to be ok, its the side streets that will be snow covered for days, until this big rain storm comes later this week that w/ it and the melting snow will cause major flooding. Wohoo! We prepped the basement for that possibility by taking up everything that could get flood damaged except the play room as I am still debating whether that room will get risked or not. So as of today, this record snow of 28.8 inches is now being named the Blizzard of 2003 and the worst snow storm of recorded history in Baltimore going back to 1891!
I commented that we could have lived a few more years as homeowners without needing to learn about how to deal with a blizzard and the melting aftermath but as with us nothing comes easy. Our first year in the house and already this. Lovely. In other news, we are currently without health insurance for God knows how long, and this means next week I will be completely out of meds for my condition. I’ve slowly been weaning myself and lowering the dose so the pills last longer as we cant afford to pay for a refill and I am already feeling the affects. Back is the dizziness, naseaus, spots, not yet any killer headaches but with luck my surgery in December will keep that from happening. I am scared of what will happen without medicine and without being able to go to the dr. I was planning on calling my neurologist this week but no ones been available with the blizzard, I am hoping to give them a call tomorrow to see if I can talk to the dr about what to do. He doesnt yet know that I havent had my follow up or my complete dose of meds, I hate to tell him but when you cant afford it what do you do? Today has been bad. Yesterday was bad. Trying to keep it from Dean which is never a good thing. I never told him til earlier this week that I was dropping my dosage to make the pills last longer becuase I knew he would worry. Now that I will be almost out soon I thought I better prepare him that things might get rough soon. Worst part is I just talked to a lady about a nanny position today. She has an 18 month old little girl and needs a sitter for her all day on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For me I think of it as a paid playdate! We are to meet with her and her daughter this upcoming Friday(they are stranded somewhere in W.Va and got their messages today from their answering machine and are hoping to be back by then) I hope to talk to my dr before then to discuss options so that that is something I can do. It will mean a friend for Caleb and a little extra cash for us. Both are big pluses.
Will have pics up soon of our wonderland of snow!
