Friday June 15th, RIP Isis

Today we had Chris' appointment with the hand surgeon. We also got the call from the insurance adjuster telling us that Isis lost her battle with the road.

We left this morning at 11am to visit Isis at the tow lot. We were told to collect our personal belongings and licence plates from the vehicle. She will be towed by Geico on Monday. The experience wasn't nearly as emotional as I expected it to be. We had become very attached to Isis. She has treated us well for the last 3.5 years. We were very close to paying her off. We got to the lot and got down to business.

We cleaned out two large boxes worth of stuff from the car. I snapped some pictures that I will attached to this post in the next couple of days. The lot has a large dog that guards the cars. That large dog, makes large shit. Chris and I danced around a pile for the first 10 mins of the clean out. Then, his Birkenstocks landed square in the middle of it. That moved me to a different entry point very quickly.

Once we had said goodbye to Isis, we put our boxes into the back of the Dodge Charger Loaner Car and headed on to the Dr.'s appointment.

Dr. Douglas Trzcinski is a hand specialist at EVMS in Norfolk, VA. He was referred to us by the ER doctor on the night of the accident. More information about Dr. Trzcinzki and EVMS can be found Here.

The doctor told us today that he is optimistic that Chris may not need surgery. He has prescribed Physical Therapy and a special splint for the time being. He also adjusted Chris' pain med schedule and dosage. We are hoping this means longer sleep periods and more comfortable days.

Midway through the appointment we both realized we had forgotten to eat before we left the house at 11am. By the time we got home we were both pretty cranky and hungry. We finished the productive part of our day by ordering pizza and eating an ice cream cone each.