Close to Nowhere

I hate change. So, what am I doing? Changing everything.

I’m “in training” for inhome dialysis and once again my whole life is changing.

I still haven’t adjusted to a new refrigerator. I open it and nothing is where it’s supposed to be.

Then, the septic tank backed up, overflowed in both bathrooms and ruined the floor in Kris’s bathroom and is requiring major work. Fortunately, my youngest brother Danny is a very handy guy and he always comes to my rescue.

He has a very intense ‘real’ job in Memphis as a boiler operator at the VA hospital. He’s in charge of huge boilers that run the HVAC. The boilers are bigger than my entire house.

But I digress. Danny has been driving the hour and a half one way on his rare time off and replacing the floor. The entire floor, until he can stand on the ground under the house and still be in the bathroom.

My front porch looks worse than usual. Almost everything that was in the bathroom is on the porch along with all his miscellaneous junk. It’s hideous!

The outside dogs got into some paper garbage a month or so ago and weather has not cooperated with a cleaning schedule so the carport area looks pretty bad also.

I got a new bed, so I’d have room in my bedroom to put my new dialysis stuff. I had a huge California king and now I have a twin. Every time I turn over at night I think I’m falling off the bed.

After I move all the furniture around in the bedroom I’m going to have a corner for my new dialysis chair and the machine.

I’ll no longer be driving three days a week to Oxford. I couldn’t go to the dialysis center in Holly Springs as daughter Dana works there and company policy won’t allow that

To top everything off, I got a new notebook laptop computer thing and I can’t work it. It has a track pad instead of a mouse. I really want my rat back.

I’m hoping that after I recover from all this change that I’m going to be able to be the hermit I long to be. At least until I get tired of it. After all, I have grand and great-grandchildren I can go play with now!

Linda Jones of Laws Hill is a former staff writer for The South Reporter. She is retired but continues her weekly column.