Nick spent the day at the sailing club. This weekend is Wheels & Keels, the annual antique/unique car/boat show – one of his & Kev's favorites. I heard they had Al Capone’s car there – they didn’t mention if any bullet holes were visible though. Kelden took the SAT exams in the morning and then she & I spent the rest of the day with Kevin.
Kev does seem to be improving. The acute break-thru pain is essentially gone, so mostly he has only to deal with the background pain. But he is still pretty drowsy from the methadone – usually we can get only about 15 minute intervals of him being “awake”. We did succeed in getting him to eat a few bites of ice cream, pizza, salad & jello today but his appetite is still very low.
On the home front: Our sewer system has officially been declared failed. After 4 snakings in 6 weeks, the plumber convinced us to give it up. So for the last week and half we have had no working bathrooms. Fortunately, the kitchen works just fine - it’s on a different line – remember the part of our house being 107 years-old? We actually have 4 different lines on the property – one being an old septic tank, but that connects only to an outside sink. Well, anyway the line that connected to the bathroom was an old clay pipe that roots got into and eventually it just collapsed. Most of last week our plumber worked with the city to get them to camera the lines and determine where they connect into the main and then he obtained a permit. He plans to start digging on Monday and by Wed we should have a completely new line (60 ft) from the house to the road and he will connect the kitchen into the new line as well. Nick rigged up a grey water system so I could do laundry last week and the sailing club (only a couple miles away) has full amenities – showers & bathrooms – very nice ones too. It reminds me of the MC commercial:
New sewer line - $6000
Memberships at the local sailing club - priceless
Kev does seem to be improving. The acute break-thru pain is essentially gone, so mostly he has only to deal with the background pain. But he is still pretty drowsy from the methadone – usually we can get only about 15 minute intervals of him being “awake”. We did succeed in getting him to eat a few bites of ice cream, pizza, salad & jello today but his appetite is still very low.
On the home front: Our sewer system has officially been declared failed. After 4 snakings in 6 weeks, the plumber convinced us to give it up. So for the last week and half we have had no working bathrooms. Fortunately, the kitchen works just fine - it’s on a different line – remember the part of our house being 107 years-old? We actually have 4 different lines on the property – one being an old septic tank, but that connects only to an outside sink. Well, anyway the line that connected to the bathroom was an old clay pipe that roots got into and eventually it just collapsed. Most of last week our plumber worked with the city to get them to camera the lines and determine where they connect into the main and then he obtained a permit. He plans to start digging on Monday and by Wed we should have a completely new line (60 ft) from the house to the road and he will connect the kitchen into the new line as well. Nick rigged up a grey water system so I could do laundry last week and the sailing club (only a couple miles away) has full amenities – showers & bathrooms – very nice ones too. It reminds me of the MC commercial:
New sewer line - $6000
Memberships at the local sailing club - priceless
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Glad to hear that Kevin's pain is more manageable. Hope it goes away soon. We've been thinking about him a lot and hope he's able to get out of the hospital soon. Tell him to leave the flying cats there though.
Sounds like some top notch engineers designed your sewer system back in the day...that's some serious redundancy. Unfortunately they forgot to tie them all together.
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