Thursday, 14 August 2008
My Dear Friends,
Nothing new on the health front. I am supposed to visit my second opinion guy this coming Tuesday. I have no test results for him, except a blood test showing my sugar was a little low.
The big adventure is on the home front. This past Saturday, I had gone out for a rare dinner with the girls. We'd planned it for two months. Dinner took too long and we would miss our movie so we decided to head back home, take a walk and just watch a DVD.
I skipped the walk and hung out with my boys at home, hoping to join the girls later. I was sitting in my living room, joking and laughing with my boys. The dishwasher was on. Suddenly I heard water running in the kitchen.
"What's that?" I got up to look.
Water was pouring from my ceiling light fixtures!
Mark had followed me to look.
"The bathroom!" I yelled.
Mark ran, taking the steps three at a time. I hobbled after him, in time to see water pouring from the upstairs toilet. There was about an inch of water on the floor and it had started spilling out onto the hall carpet. The threshold under the door did prevent most of it from going into the hall.
Mark waded through the water and scrambled to contain the situation, ending up shutting off the water. Jesse found a bucket to catch water in the kitchen.
What a disaster! Turned out to be a clogged toilet and my eldest owned up to it. The toilet was defective, however, as the water is just supposed to rise and not continue running!
We figure it was running for two hours before we noticed. The water had even made it to the basement! We shut off the circuit breaker and removed the kitchen light fixtures. Mark began the mop up.
I called the insurance company. They got ServiceMaster out here the next day to try to resolve the situation. They brought seven industrial fans and three gigantic dehumidifiers, cutting two large holes in my kitchen ceiling.
On Monday, they ripped the entire ceiling out!
I lived in a wind tunnel all week. The equipment was loud! And I don't even want to see my electric bill! It got up to 89 degrees in the house at one point, as they had also placed a heater to help dry out the ceiling.
They checked in every day. I was hoping they would get rid of the noise. Yesterday, they finally removed the equipment from the kitchen and basement.
Ahh, the sound of silence!
The bathroom tile is still wet, they said. They put the heater and a sucking mat in the bathroom. The mat is supposed to suck the water out of the tile. Yes, it's loud, too. We keep the door closed, as they said it will reach 115 degrees in there.
The insurance company will send us a contractor to replace the kitchen ceiling.
The good news is that they took $166 off our $500 deductible because Mark shut off the water and mopped the floor. (We'll take it!)
So that's been our adventure this week.
Please continue to keep us in your prayers.
Love,
Jeanette
Nothing new on the health front. I am supposed to visit my second opinion guy this coming Tuesday. I have no test results for him, except a blood test showing my sugar was a little low.
The big adventure is on the home front. This past Saturday, I had gone out for a rare dinner with the girls. We'd planned it for two months. Dinner took too long and we would miss our movie so we decided to head back home, take a walk and just watch a DVD.
I skipped the walk and hung out with my boys at home, hoping to join the girls later. I was sitting in my living room, joking and laughing with my boys. The dishwasher was on. Suddenly I heard water running in the kitchen.
"What's that?" I got up to look.
Water was pouring from my ceiling light fixtures!
Mark had followed me to look.
"The bathroom!" I yelled.
Mark ran, taking the steps three at a time. I hobbled after him, in time to see water pouring from the upstairs toilet. There was about an inch of water on the floor and it had started spilling out onto the hall carpet. The threshold under the door did prevent most of it from going into the hall.
Mark waded through the water and scrambled to contain the situation, ending up shutting off the water. Jesse found a bucket to catch water in the kitchen.
What a disaster! Turned out to be a clogged toilet and my eldest owned up to it. The toilet was defective, however, as the water is just supposed to rise and not continue running!
We figure it was running for two hours before we noticed. The water had even made it to the basement! We shut off the circuit breaker and removed the kitchen light fixtures. Mark began the mop up.
I called the insurance company. They got ServiceMaster out here the next day to try to resolve the situation. They brought seven industrial fans and three gigantic dehumidifiers, cutting two large holes in my kitchen ceiling.
On Monday, they ripped the entire ceiling out!
I lived in a wind tunnel all week. The equipment was loud! And I don't even want to see my electric bill! It got up to 89 degrees in the house at one point, as they had also placed a heater to help dry out the ceiling.
They checked in every day. I was hoping they would get rid of the noise. Yesterday, they finally removed the equipment from the kitchen and basement.
Ahh, the sound of silence!
The bathroom tile is still wet, they said. They put the heater and a sucking mat in the bathroom. The mat is supposed to suck the water out of the tile. Yes, it's loud, too. We keep the door closed, as they said it will reach 115 degrees in there.
The insurance company will send us a contractor to replace the kitchen ceiling.
The good news is that they took $166 off our $500 deductible because Mark shut off the water and mopped the floor. (We'll take it!)
So that's been our adventure this week.
Please continue to keep us in your prayers.
Love,
Jeanette
posted by Mark Kappe @ 4:24 AM
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