I postponed starting my radiation treatments until next week.
I spoke to my team this morning after they got my x-rays, there’s just too much going on this week. Namely that I can’t afford to get my car fixed right now. I need to get stuff sold just to cover money for the rest of the month, including $175 for our gas and electric bill which has to be paid by the 20th plus $108 for our water and sewage bill.
Ms Boyd at Geico finally called me back this morning. The news wasn’t good, we have to pay $750 out of pocket for my car repair. They’re probably going to give us about $50 to $75 at most. They will send an adjuster out to do an estimate on my car but I’m not expecting much by the way she talked. It’s a damned if we do, damned if we don’t situation because if we didn’t have a high deductible our insurance would be a lot more expensive. Unfortunately, that doesn’t help us a lot right now.
I’m going to try and get some comics posted for sale later today. Hopefully, I can get some jewelry posted this week, too. I’ll just have to not drive my car any more than I absolutely have to and save up to get it fixed as soon as I can. Stuff like paying bills, gas money, prescriptions and groceries have to come first. It’s still a long time until we’re paid again on the 30th.
One of these days things will settle down and we’ll have a nice boring life. I truly, truly look forward to that.
ETA:
We got some good news for a change this afternoon. The Geico adjuster came by, took pictures and checked under my car. It looks like when my neighbor spooked the thief the other night he hadn't finished the job. My catalytic converter is still there! She says I'll have to replace the cover shield and the exhaust pipe which she estimates at about $550 to repair. Which is way better than the $900 estimate the muffler shop gave me to replace everything.
I still have to sell stuff to raise the money for it, Geico won't be paying anything toward it at all. But, $550 isn't as scary a number as $900 is.
I'll take any good news we can get. :)
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Ms Boyd at Geico finally called me back this morning. The news wasn’t good, we have to pay $750 out of pocket for my car repair. They’re probably going to give us about $50 to $75 at most. They will send an adjuster out to do an estimate on my car but I’m not expecting much by the way she talked. It’s a damned if we do, damned if we don’t situation because if we didn’t have a high deductible our insurance would be a lot more expensive. Unfortunately, that doesn’t help us a lot right now.
I’m going to try and get some comics posted for sale later today. Hopefully, I can get some jewelry posted this week, too. I’ll just have to not drive my car any more than I absolutely have to and save up to get it fixed as soon as I can. Stuff like paying bills, gas money, prescriptions and groceries have to come first. It’s still a long time until we’re paid again on the 30th.
One of these days things will settle down and we’ll have a nice boring life. I truly, truly look forward to that.
ETA:
We got some good news for a change this afternoon. The Geico adjuster came by, took pictures and checked under my car. It looks like when my neighbor spooked the thief the other night he hadn't finished the job. My catalytic converter is still there! She says I'll have to replace the cover shield and the exhaust pipe which she estimates at about $550 to repair. Which is way better than the $900 estimate the muffler shop gave me to replace everything.
I still have to sell stuff to raise the money for it, Geico won't be paying anything toward it at all. But, $550 isn't as scary a number as $900 is.
I'll take any good news we can get. :)
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