It’s worse than I thought :(

I just heard back from my brother, as to the extent of things that need done on the car. Apparently, it needs front and back brakes, front/back rotors, bearings on both sides of the front end, both tie rods and there's a fuel leak. These repairs simply aren't possible. I don't know the total number but I wouldn't be surprised if it climbed near or even over a thousand dollars. At least I know I'm not getting ripped off because it's my brother looking at everything. All I can do at this point is make it drivable, safely drivable and pray we can make it until tax return. That's the soonest I could pull this off. Until then, it's one more thing I have to worry about and be powerless…

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We received some bad news 

In what seems like a cruel twist of fate, insurance has decided to discontinue coverage for Lizze's outpatient therapy classes.  These are a series of three different classes that span a total of about six months or so. They are designed to help people dealing with things like PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, and more extreme challenges like Borderline Personality Disorder.  Before she was able to begin the very first class earlier this year, insurance had to approve everything, and they did. They agreed to cover all three classes and so we proceeded with the therapy.  She made it through the first class, and about half of the second one when out of nowhere, insurance pulled the plug and the funding.  We've been unable to secure a reason for this sudden and…

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There’s a good chance I’ll be going offline for awhile and here’s why

Before we move on completely from this week of problems related to our A/C going down, I did forget to mention one thing that may affect this blog for the immediate future. The only bill I wasn't able to get caught up on was our internet bill. It's about a hundred bucks, which hasn't been a problem lately.  Unfortunately, we had to choose between fixing the A/C and providing relief for the kids or saving the money and paying the internet bill. We chose the to fix the A/C because it would have the most positive impact on the kids. The point is this, I'm probably going to lose the internet until the beginning of July. This will significantly limit my ability to write. We could easily tether from our…

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Bad News

I'm going to start with the most important thing first and that's Emmett. Apparently, Emmett was climbing on a metal folding chair that Lizze sits on when she's reading to them at night.  While he was climbing, he slipped and smashed his mouth into the metal frame of the chair.  This resulted in him chipping his front tooth. Of course, this is an adult tooth. It doesn't appear to be that bad of a chip but we will call the dentist in the morning, get him and Elliott in for their checkup and whatever Emmett needs.  He's not in any pain and I think the dentist will just sorta grind it down a little bit and leave it. It could have been much, much worse and I'm very grateful it…

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I have good news and bad news tonight

Today has been one of those days were it's truly been a mix bag. We've been blessed with some really positive events today. At the same time, there's some bad news as well. I think that's how life sorta balances everything out.  In fairness though, life has a pretty shitty track record for balancing things out for us, and a lot of other families.  I want to begin with the good news because it's a pretty big deal.  I had been talking about how things being tight this month and how we are adjusting to a significantly reduced grocery budget. This has had me really stressed out and scrambling to figure out our options. Last night, or rather very early this morning, my new advertising deal came through. I hadn't…

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We received some bad news

I really like to focus on the positive side of things but sometimes, life just sucks. No matter how it's painted or candy coated, there's no escaping the gravitational pull of this dense ball of negative shit. If I don't talk about this stuff then you don't have a true image of what our lives are like or the challenges we face while we're going through everything else. With that in mind, I'll share the shitty day I've had.  There were quite a few littler things that hit us today but the single biggest thing is that we lost the dispute with our bank over the $500+ in unauthorized transactions. It was two transactions and they found that no error was made. We've appealed but it's gonna take another two…

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I have bad news about Gavin

As I shared earlier, Gavin had an appointment today with Dr.Reynolds, his psychiatrist for over an decade.  The trip to this appointment was incredibly difficult for Gavin because his bladder issues were ramped up and causing him a great deal of distress. Thankfully he made it without incident..  His appointment went as well as it could, considering why we were there. We were there to both follow up on meds and discuss Gavin's current status. I'm going to try and make this short and sweet.  We talked about how Gavin's delusions and hallucinations are as strong as ever. There isn't a significant difference between his status while on 600mg of Clozapine and what it is now while on 800mg of Clozapine per day.  This is a scary thing for many…

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