There hasn't been much visible work done on the streets since last post. It appears they have prepared some of the terraces for adding dirt, grass and trees, but no update until ours is done. They've also not started on the foot bridge that is part of this project, and I hope they came to their senses and save that money but probably not.
I got the car back on Tuesday last week. All they found was a wheel bearing that needed replacing on the right front. Thankfully it wasn't more serious, that bearing made a hell of a scraping sound. So about 100 bucks to tow it to the shop then about 900 dollars to fix. Could've been worse and I consider myself lucky.
Also Tuesday after work I returned the rental car, so I had the rental for 8 days. It was all rather confusing when I rented it, but it appears the rental car cost me about 50 dollars a day. All in all, not as bad as I feared, yet the total cost of my car breaking down approached $1500.00.
Also on Tuesday evening, after returning the rental and fetching my car from the shop, I got a call from my sister. Seems my Mom was having a health emergency. I talked to her but she didn't want me to come down because they were hoping to get her into a Madison hospital the next day, which they did. So I met her at one of the hospitals here in town the next morning. Later that Wednesday she had a procedure done, and the next day she was discharged in the early afternoon. I took her home and spent the night, but wound up leaving around midday on Friday and my sister and her kids got there later in the afternoon and spent the weekend with her.
Mom will be okay and has a chance to recover completely, but will need to exercise, take her medicine, listen to her doctors and go to therapy. So it will be work, but I know she can do it.
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3 comments:
$900 for a wheel bearing? Yikes, I thought things were expensive over here! That is exactly 3 times what one cost for our car a year ago.
Do hope your mum continues to improve. Ageing parents are such a worry aren't they?
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Sorry to hear about your Mum but hopefully she will make a good recovery. Always a worry when parents become ill or hospitalised. Car repairs are so expensive these days but little choice other than to get it done.
The part was about 350, the rest was labor. Still a reliable car though its a 2010 model. I think we'll have several good years left with it.
Thank you for the good wishes for my Mom, and sorry for the delayed response. I had a more thoughtful one composed in my head last night but apparently never wrote it. And a good reminder, thank you. I've gotten caught up in my own routine stuff again but need to reach out to her more consistently now.
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