So I haven't been on much because my life has been a drama!!!
So November 16 was my day off from work after working the weekend, I had plans of getting stuff done around the house & going with my aunt to her follow up oncology appt. About 45mins before I had to leave, I heard this loud bubbling noise. I ran to the laundry room & there was water & soap bubbles every where, then the toilet started gurgling in the bathroom, water came in from the laundry room to the bathroom from the hallway. Of course DH is at work, I called my aunt & had to cancel. We've had something similar happen before & it was related to tree roots. So I call the plumber & they have no openings until the next day & could not recommend anyone else!!! DH came home from work & went thru the better business burea & found someone. It ended up not being any tree roots & they was some weird stuff in the lines that the plumber never said he had seen before. The only good thing is that it was $110& cheaper than what the other plumber charged in the past.
So this just kind of put me over the edge, especially after the tree falling on my house this summer. So DH & I had been looking at VGT for
DCL for over a wk & talking with our friends we made last year on the cruise. So we booked it that night & they did too!!! It's been more than a year since we took a vacation & we're in dire need. This has been a tough year & im so happy we have this to look forward to. So I made myself a promise if we went, to really work on some deep cleaning projects at home like going through drawers, throwing away or donating stuff, rearranging cupboards & my laundry room-all things I was doing until......
The following Monday am, I'm getting group texts from work that someone called in sick & our new assignments for the day. So my cell keeps getting messages, so I go to walk to the phone & not really looking, I trip & fall over the ottoman!!!! Now nothing's broke but it knocked the wind out of me, I bruised my left left & right elbow pretty bad, twisted my right ankle & hurt my back as I tried to over compensate & pull myself back from falling. Well of course I can't call off, because someone just did. So I sat down for a bit, regained my composure, took ibuprofen & went to work. It was absolutely awful!!!!! I was near tears at work, my coworker thought I was going to cry at work about recent work changes & wanted to call my boss. I didn't want to tell anyone I fell because I sound like an idiot, so I had to tell why. I do a lot of walking in my job as a hospital social worker, so it was an awful day!!! So I wasn't getting any of my projects done until the weekend after thanksgiving as I was just in a lot of pain. I was so happy as that weekend I got my tree up & decorated, & all of my holiday stuff out. So I was all geared up for more of my projects until......
The following Monday...
Backstory- were still having work done at our home from the massive tree falling on our home this summer. Our area was hit very hard with bad storms, so getting a contractor to do work (after a recovery team did emergency stuff the day of, ie boarding & tarping roof, crane removing tree, boarding broken sky light, etc) was so hard as as everyone was so busy. We found a contractor we liked & work started. Then all of a sudden, we were not getting return calls, we found out he retired unexpectedly (maybe health related type emergency) so the company had to reassign all his jobs, so now we're in the back of the list for contractor 2 who was a jerk & not very flexible, then he stopped returning calls & it seems was fired. Now contractor 3 is on task & seems good. So they're finally ready to do the plaster work in our bed room & call Monday to say they'd be out Tuesday & ask us to clear out the room.
So Tuesday am, DH & I clear out room & find MOLD!!! It's behind the dressers, so we can't see it!!!!! OMG!! So the contractor looks it over & I had a bad feeling. He says he & the owner will be out Wednesday am, he took a bunch of pics. Now we have pics of what the walls originally looked like, we did not have mold, duh. So the next day the owner pretty much says, well I don't think the molds related to the tree that fell on these vary walls (you may remember the tree fell on my bedroom while I was in bed & water came in on me in bed - of course DH was at work, we also had to have bed replaced). He said that he thinks we have a separate issue & that our water table may be high & waters coming in from outside in some small crack in the mortar that we had never seen before. He basically said this won't be covered by insurance & that they'd have to dig outside of foundation & put in a retaining wall outside!!! When I asked the cost, he said a similar job was $22,000!!!!!!!! At the end of this conversation, my DH asked if this may be related to not having industrial dryers brought in (after this was suggested by a good friend), he was shocked by this & said that the recovery team (not his company, they were sent by insurance) shouldve done that. They recovery team told us to just put fans in there & we did, we had no idea there was even another option like these industrial dryers. So he said well this may changes things, call your insurance & see what they say- he was not very hopeful. He left & I lost it, I cried for 2 hours straight.
My husband called the insurance, they did research & found that the recovery team did not bill for these industrial dryers, so we have proof!! Insurance is now expanding our claim to cover the mold damage, but of course we're now aware at the ground level there's some crack we need to care for, but this retaining wall thing may not be correct as the Mold Contractor was out & said THERES NO WAY THIS MOLD CAME FROM A CRACK OUTSIDE, ITS FROM THE WATER FROM THE TREE INCIDENT. She said theres no way with the type of brick & cement wall structure that this type of mold could come from a small crack outside!!!!!
So my home is a total disaster zone, we live in a small ranch house, so everything from my bedroom is everywhere & were back to sleeping on couches!! Which is not helping my back from my fall last week..... All my little projects are now moot, my house is a giant mess, stuffs EVERYWHERE. I just want to cry & cry. I can barely see my Christmas tree & stuffs piled in front of it. I'm just so down, my only ray of sunshine is this trip next month......
