Tuesday = Better. Considerably Better.
Feb. 3rd, 2009 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivan1) The knee is better, though still bears close watching and considerable rest. Many thanks to all for the quick healing messages. I was pleased to discover that my health provider has a truly useful set of web pages for evaluating what's okay to self-treat (along with how and for how long) and when one should seek professional treatment. It was broken out symptom by symptom -- what kind of pain, how much swelling, and so on. The provider web pages also included an excellent overview of the many different main things that can go wrong with knees, and useful self-care information. I'm impressed, and pleased. Their online resources left me confident about my decision to give the knee a few days to get better with a little bit of help from me rather than going in for evaluation and a probable X-ray yesterday or today.
2) Remember last summer, when my home heating fuel budget went up by 150% to cover the expected costs of the heating season we're now in? A couple of months ago, I asked when they were going to lower budget payments considering how much the price per gallon had dropped since the budget numbers were set. They lowered my payment so it was closer to a 70% increase over last year.
That was good, but today's mail was even better. There, on the bottom of my monthly budget summary statement, was the welcome surprise, in all capital letters, which I will not duplicate here, and bold face, which I will: "You have a high credit balance on this account. We feel you should stop making payments for now."
Whoohoo!
Yes, I may well already have already paid for the rest of the oil I'll use this year. I thought I was still going to come out somewhat ahead of the game, but it never occurred to me that I might be able to stop making payments all together.
A few months worth of oil payments will go along way toward paying for gutter repairs. (If the money actually existed, that is. I'm working on that part.)
2) Remember last summer, when my home heating fuel budget went up by 150% to cover the expected costs of the heating season we're now in? A couple of months ago, I asked when they were going to lower budget payments considering how much the price per gallon had dropped since the budget numbers were set. They lowered my payment so it was closer to a 70% increase over last year.
That was good, but today's mail was even better. There, on the bottom of my monthly budget summary statement, was the welcome surprise, in all capital letters, which I will not duplicate here, and bold face, which I will: "You have a high credit balance on this account. We feel you should stop making payments for now."
Whoohoo!
Yes, I may well already have already paid for the rest of the oil I'll use this year. I thought I was still going to come out somewhat ahead of the game, but it never occurred to me that I might be able to stop making payments all together.
A few months worth of oil payments will go along way toward paying for gutter repairs. (If the money actually existed, that is. I'm working on that part.)
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w00t!
Date: 2009-02-04 02:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-04 03:57 am (UTC)Consider it a built-in excuse to get some of the large lumpy people who are always standing around at cons to carry things for you (also, if it isn't better by then, look into finding someone local with a wheelchair you can borrow, and get a set of cabana boys to push you around).
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Date: 2009-02-04 04:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-04 04:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-05 08:35 pm (UTC)(So is that an 'open' website? 8) )
And an oily congratulations on the heating bill!
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Date: 2009-02-05 09:28 pm (UTC)So go ahead and give it a try. If it doesn't ask you to log in, you're golden. If you want to see what I saw, type "knee injury" into the search box. Beside the overview, the "Check your symptoms" link (over to the right side of the page in my broswer) is the thing that I found especially useful.