Everything is falling down, falling down, falling down….

Ever have one of those weeks (months) where everything breaks down at all once? We blew through $2500 in about a week in emergency repairs:

J car: new tires, one new rim (he obliterated one running into a curb!), AC is broken (still not fixed)

My car: new tires (gulp, $800), the driver’s side window motor broke, the AC is stuck in the defrost position (still not fixed)…making the AC virtually worthless.

The house: The AC broke down when it was of course 102 degrees outside. The venthilation system is practically rusting out due to the very humid un-finished basement, so we had to purchase a mongo dehumidifier.

And then my Granny, who is almost 90 years old and in stage 2 Alzheimer’s fell and broke her leg. She’s got osteoporosis pretty badly. The hospital said she needed surgery to fix it, but she’s too frail and it’s too risky. Besides, she sits in a wheelchair all day, so it would be kind of pointless. So they’ve put her on strict bed-rest. And because her bones are so fragile the docs said it would be for several months. Try keeping a woman in bed for months on end when she can’t even remember she has a broken leg. It’s a bad situation. Plus they’re saying that if it gets swollen it could mean amputation – another very risky surgery for her.