Fadedwords

Jake called me about 40 minutes ago.  They met tonight and closed on the house.

So we’re officially house owners. 

Several months ago Jake and I began looking for a house, just to get a tiny idea of what we might like.  We saw a few on line that were nice, but nothing that jumped right out at us.  Several weeks ago, though, something awful and wonderful happened at the same time.  My best friend, Tim, told me that he and his wife were moving back to New York and would need to sell their house.  The house we had instantly fallen in love with the moment we saw it.And so we began the tedious, stressful, stomach-churningly exciting process of buying a house.We got word yesterday that our loan was approved, and we close on the house Monday April 30th.Some stats on the house:

• 1500sq ft
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bath
• ~1.5 acres of land
• riding mower comes with the house
• washer, dryer, stove that come with it.

A view of the back yard.

The front of the house.

**Click on the pictures to see full-sized images**

More pictures will follow after Tim, Tracy, and the girls have moved out… which will be Monday after closing.  Sadly, I won’t get to say goodbye to them… but I think they’ll be back to visit us in our house.  

We are very excited.  Obviously I won’t be moving in until I find a job, but hopefully that won’t be too far off.

We have a house!

I think I wrote awhile back about the vision in my left eye suddenly being blurry.  I finally got in to see an eye doctor yesterday, and the news wasn’t good.

They no longer have to dilate your eyes to see into the retina… which I was excited about.  They have this neat machine that can take pictures without dilation.  My insurance (allegedly) covers it, so they had me do that to see what was wrong.  My right is is perfect… in fact with my current prescription I have 20/20 vision in my right eye.  My left eye, however, is fubar’d. 

The pictures showed significant scarring in my left eye, most of it in the macula region.  This is the central vision part of the eye.  The doc thinks it’s being caused by Histoplasmosis.   This is a fungal/bacterial infection that originally starts in the lungs, but in some cases can cause pretty serious eye damage. 

I go to see a specialist tomorrow to see what can be done.  It’s possible that I will have a permanent blind spot in my right eye, depending on how far along the scarring is and how much it’s encroached on my macula.  The doctor yesterday said that some patients can have laser treatment, but with me it wasn’t likely because it was so close to my retina.  Laser treament like this can apparently damage your retina.  The next option would be surgery… but if you read the link above, even surgery isn’t a 100% solution.  In many cases the scarring comes back, sometimes in the same eye, sometimes in the other one… and sometimes in both.

It was not good news.  I was hoping that all I needed was a new eye glasses prescription.  Turns out it’s kind of a serious problem. 

This has been a bad year for health problems.  Every time I think I’m back on my feet, and my finances start getting together again, something else happens that puts me back in the hole due to medical bills.  I’m not likely this at all.

As is apparent, my site has been successfully moved. There are still some tweaky things, especially in my writing section. Mostly things are ok. There should be a design update coming at some point, but it was just important to get it moved to a new and better server.

Thanks to Jake for all of his hard work getting things moved and working.

We will be doing some work on my website, and it’ll render it strange looking to my frequent visitors.  There may be some down time as well.

Keep checking back; I’m sure Jake will have it running smoothly and beautifully in no time.