Monkey Wrenches Left and Right

We still don't have a closing date for the sale of Bargain House. Monday will be one week past the original closing date. Maybe Hick can get some information from Realtor Guy then.

Now the situation has become extra irritating. The water bill is due on April 15th. We usually get the bill around the 2-5, and I mail it. The city doesn't process the payments until the 15th. Hick had told me not to pay this one, because, you know, the closing was April 6. 

Last time we paid the water bill on time, for the Double Hovel, the title company also subtracted the water bill from our proceeds at closing. So we paid double, and had to go to the city with the closing papers to eventually get reimbursed. It was a pain. Now Hick will go in person on Monday, the 13th, to pay that water bill. It will likely result in a double payment again.

Also, the insurance on Bargain House is due April 21. If we don't get a closing date before that deadline, Hick will go pay that bill in person as well. Then after we finally have the closing, he'll have to go back and start the process of canceling the policy and getting a refund for six months of insurance.

It's still another week or so before the gas and electric bills are posted. They are usually due around the first of the next month. So we might be able to wait on those, depending on a closing date.

It's not that these are large amounts of money. They are loose ends that need tying. It's a pain for my record-keeping. And The Pony pays half, and is entitled to half the refunds. What should have been a smooth transition is now a pain in the rumpus.

In other news, Hick had his MRI on Thursday afternoon. The results were in his Nurse Practitioner's office on Friday, when Hick stopped by for a regular weekly shot. Of course his NP wasn't there. He asked if one of the other doctors at the practice could read the MRI results. No. But one of the nurses took a look at the radiologist's report. 

The nurse said she wasn't sure what it meant. Of course she was trying to do Hick a favor, but it's not really her job to interpret test results. She said it showed neither pneumonia nor a collapsed lung. But something was pressing on Hick's upper spine. 

"She said the MRI shows nothing wrong with my lungs, but some compressed area on my upper spine."

Those are Hick's words from a nurse's words from a written report and image. So who knows WHAT that might be... Maybe it's "just" a disc problem like Hick had with his lower back.

Hick will talk to his NP about it at an appointment he has on Thursday.

Meanwhile, it's hurry up and wait for both situations.