The wind storm of the North and Mike's doctors appointment

Saturday was an interesting day all together. After getting our tree and coming home with an extra passenger (my niece Quinlan) we got settled into home. After the kids played together, and we watched a few movies, we all headed to bed. Apparently during the night a wind storm started up. I woke up at about 6 am to the dogs barking and some very eerie sound. "Creeeeeek-boom. Mike, what was that? What was what? Creeeeek-boom. That!' Mike got up to check things out and noticed that the car canopies that we have to park under had moved several feet and that his car was still parked under it. So both of us bundled up at 6 am and had to rescue the car from under the canopy before there was any more damage to the paint. After things had settled down, Mike took a picture of the canopies.




On Monday Mike and I went to see Dr Darby who has been following Mike since the injury at work. Overall, Mike is doing well. His condition is stable, albeit very limiting. I asked Dr Darby about the prognosis of him making enough of a recovery to be able to work again and he said that most of the cases he's seen there is little improvement after the initial injury. He said that over a few years, it might get slightly better but only time will tell. Mike wasn't very happy with the news that he's not going to be able to go back to work. He really loves his job and his co-workers. He's having a hard time trying to wrap his head around what to do next. On top of everything, they are still denying his claim to the Longshore L&I, so we have very limited cash flow coming in and Christmas is right around the corner. We have people working on getting the claim passed through as quickly as possible, but it's still scary to think that we might loose our house. We are both trying our best to be strong, but at times it's hard. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, right? I just hope the lemonade stand is enough to keep our little family afloat. Please keep Mike in your thoughts because he is having a pretty tough time with all of this.