I decided to jump in and do a WYFP diary this week because it seems like one bad thing after another has been happening to me and my family this year. I don't know what I did to deserve this--maybe one of the local MAGAs who hates me has a voodoo doll of me or something! I would sure like to know what I can do to put this streak of bad luck to an end.
In January, my brother died after the hospital where he was in the ICU waited too long to transfer him to a hospital that could provide him with care he needed because, I later learned, of their contract with in one of the big hospitals in the state. (They kept claiming, falsely, there was no hospital with an ICU bed that could accept him.) When they finally transferred him, it was too late. The two doctors who treated him at the receiving hospital said he would have likely lived if he had been transferred sooner. And, that they could have taken him any rime since they don't cap beds. My brother died so somebody, somewhere could get a little richer.
In February, my sister had a stroke. Luckily, the doctors were able to insert a coil into her brain and stop the bleeding in time. But as a result of her stroke, she has permanent damage to her vision.
Also in February, I had a terrifying encounter while driving home from visiting my sister in the hospital. As I drove, a cop car pulled up beside me and started swerving toward me. At first, I thought he was trying to go around me so I slowed down. He did it again, and I slowed down further. He then put his lights on and pulled me over. When I rolled down my window, he started screaming at me like a lunatic telling me I was driving too slow--then turned and left without even asking for ID or proof of insurance. I noticed he was not wearing a badge. I strongly suspect that the reason I got out of that one unharmed was because I probably don't have the skin tone he was looking for--if I was black or some shade of brown it is untelling what may have happened. I filed a complaint but never heard anything afterward. But this is Kentucky, after all, and the police here have always been corrupt. p
In March I broke my ankle while heading up the steps to keep my cat from running out of the house. I was trying to repair a water pipe that had burst after our water froze off.
In April I was hit by a drunk driver and my car was totaled. I had to miss a week of work and undergo months of physical therapy. My neck is still stiff and painful from time to time. I am lucky I was not hurt worse--he t-boned me with the worst of the damage being in the rear driver side door. The impact spun my car all the way around when he hit me. The police arrested him for DUI and leaving the scene of an accident. He was caught on camera going onto a nearby store to change shirts, and he had his wife (or girlfriend?) come down to the scene of the accident to say she was the one driving.
Also, during April, one of my uncles died of brain cancer. We knew it was coming--he hung in there like a champ for many months past the time the doctors gave him to live. To make it worse, his ex-wife died one day later. I feel so bad for my two cousins--I lost both of my parents when I was in my twenties, and it was hard to lose them both at such a young age. I can't imagine how awful it would be to lose them both at the same time.
In May my TV went kerplunk just a few weeks after the warranty expired. I had to go into debt to get another one.
June was mostly calm, except for just normal stuff. I was starting to think that perhaps my streak of bad luck was ending.
In July, however, my sister's health took another hit-she learned she has cancer of the tongue. She will be having a PET scan next week to make sure she does not have cancer anywhere else in her body before they schedule her surgery. She will need to be in the hospital for at least a week--she will have a breathing and feeding tube during this time and will likely need speech therapy afterward.
In August, our AC unit quit, because of course it did at the time we needed it most.
In September, my washing machine broke--luckily, I have a service plan on it and was able to get it fixed.
In addition, while attending a family reunion in Indiana, a young guy driving a work van rear-ended my bumper. Yes, this is the car I had just bought earlier in the year to replace the one that was totaled. I was stopped on a corner and was waiting for the traffic to clear before making a right turn. He came up from behind and dinged me--said he did not even see me siting there. Luckily, the damage is just cosmetic--his boss's insurance is buying me a new bumper. Still, though, just dealing with the whole pain in the butt in order to get it fixed is a major source of stress this month.
And lastly, just yesterday, the power supply to our desktop computer died. I can't lose that computer--too much important information is stored on it. So I had to suck it up and order a new power supply for it. I will have to figure out how to replace it when it gets here.
So, how has your week been?
