Mom had several unscheduled trips to the hospital. She’s out and reasonably healthy now and looking forward to her 94th birthday next month.

On one of my trips out of the hospital parking garage I managed to crunch the front bumper of my car into a support column, damaging the suspension as well as the front end; that was on July 12. Here it is a month later and the car’s still in the shop. I’ve spent $785 on a rental car during that month. I just got a loaner from the body shop last week.

I managed to bruise a bunch of muscles around my breastbone; the docs think that was a result of my chest hitting the seat belt (the airbags didn’t deploy; I was only going 5-7 mph, for crying out loud) during the car accident. Those are healing, however.

More to follow.