But suave... Suave always trumps isolated! This entire thing is somewhat surreal. My life has changed not a whit, except that I'm working from home instead of going into the office every day. Conference calls instead of face to face meetings. One trip to the store instead of several a week. We don't eat out very often so that hasn't changed. The one trip to the store included carrying Clorox wipes with me! I guess there are advantages to being hermits...
For us the biggest impact is that church services are suspended until further notice and our planned social outings with friends have also been canned. The local Amish don't seem to have noticed. This afternoon my wife and I went for a walk around town (nice and remote, in five miles we passed one other person and were able to give them nearly 40 feet of space, since we passed them as we crossed a church's parking lot). We saw a huge number of Amish buggies, so we figured they were probably having a wedding.
So to make things more interesting my wife went to hospital due to excruciating pain. She recently had her back surgery and the issues around that to seem to have improved but now the back itself is in pain. No hospital visiting right now as well.
Still in pain, but probably more comfortable in the ER for now. She got a CT scan this morning but still waiting on results. Hooked up to IV pain killers. Hopefully they can get in touch with her surgeon as well. Thanks for the prayers, as always.
Took the chance to do some work in the attic, given it was raining this morning and forecast to rain all day. Since I've got the ceiling in place in the room below I could finish laying the fiberglass properly. Previously it was resting on wooden slats I'd pinned to the joists. So I lifted a couple of pieces that were just jammed in as a makeshift solution, cut stuff to size and relaid it. Then I could lay some boards over the top of it and, with the boards laid, I could move some stuff that's over the adjacent room onto the new boards. I'm going to need to lift some more cellulose and prepare to get some more wiring done, then I can lay some more board over the remaining space. I need four more boards but only have three. When all the shutdowns subside I can figure out how to get more boards home ready to board over the next section. I've still got a load of stuff to move but it's looking more and more organised. I called my wife up to the attic so we could go through some boxes with a view to reorganising them and getting rid of anything we didn't want any more. Now a load of boxes that were pretty much just put down somewhere are reorganised and neatly stacked, I found a few bits and pieces to get rid of completely, a few things we're going to try and sell rather than throw away, and a nice big open space opened up. Before long I'll be back to filling endless bags with cellulose. I just hope I can find a new respirator before too long so I can work with that stuff without breathing too much of it. I may be able to source some elastic and breathe new life into my existing one.
Just went to the hospital to have my wife sign a couple forms we need and got punched in the head twice for my trouble. Some girl in what looked like a drug induced psychosis walked in with me and started yelling at staff, swearing and then threatened she was going to kill someone in ER. Staff got her moving out toward the door but as she was leaving she clocked me twice on the side of the head. First time I've ever been hit like that. But nothing bad, just a sore ear.
Man I'm sorry that happened to you teddy. Maybe you'll get the opportunity to witness to her some day. Romans 8:28
Worst I ever got hurt in a fight was breaking up a fight between two girls. Lost a good button down shirt and had four claw marks all the way across my chest. Glad you're ok, Teddy. How is your wife doing?
Still pretty much the same. Trying to even get out of bed is an exercise in pain. She had an MRI done which definitely shows a buildup of fluid around her spine - it most certainly is a post-surgery complication. They are still not sure if it is infection because she is not showing other typical signs like fever. We are waiting on a couple of blood test cultures this morning to see what they say, at least in a preliminary sense. Our family doctor has been in touch with a neurosurgeon down in Vancouver to determine whether she will need to go. Probably depends on the results today. In the meantime, in the absence of visitors, she's been getting to know here ward mates. And staff have been very good.