Hey guys. I swear I will get at least one post done today.
As many of you know Baylor was burned in a bonfire accident at a friends house Halloween 2008. The settlement piece is just underway and yesterday had to decide if we will go solo trying to settle with the insurance companies or hire an attorney.
Let's just say when the adjuster for their homeowners tells me, "It is what it is and neither you or I was there," I do not hold out hope this will go well. The first adjuster was awesome, this is the third guy this has been handed to as people have left and he is not acting like the first guy who said, "our customer is 100% responsible."
So it has been an emotional few days, and since yesterday at 4 p.m. when the attorney called we have hired, to tell me he wants the first meeting to be on Friday...I have been here, perusing old posts and so happy I wrote about it on the Coping and Compassion thread as well as a lot in my first TR.
48 pages of reading, "Did Pluto just give you a lap dance?" Pulling out relevant things to his case, his ordeal and copy/pasting it all was not the most fun but there were a few things that struck me.
#1 Baylor looks so different now, three years later. Night and day.
#2 It is still emotionally raw to relive all this and hear him get upset retelling the events. Last night he punched the bathroom door as he walked in, crying and angry because he has to do all this three years later. That is not Baylor but it is Baylor when he feels weak and vulnerable and has no control about pieces of his life that will impact him huge. He came out a few minutes later, composure in check and sat down with me dictating his story for almost an hour, literally roll playing where he was standing , how he tried to pat it out, his leg position, everything.
Now as a funny since this is just depressing...
#3 I really do miss writing my TR's and darn it...I am a funny writer!!!
If you laugh out loud at your own writing you must be decent right?
Or sleep deprived...which is a strong possibility.
I feel I have enough to hand him to start with and can do more when we get back from the trip but I need a break from all the heartache that time frame was. Literally sobbed yesterday after getting off the phone with the adjuster because I know what lies ahead and seeing all these pictures of his burn, his graft site in the hospital and how skinny he was for our Dec 2008 trip, is hard even three years later to see.
So I am off to get something to eat, take a long bath and see a football game of Baylor's at 4 p.m. that is 45 minutes away. If I don't write before I go, I will absolutely get a post in tonight. I need some positive writing in my head!!!