Jump to content

swraith

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    839
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by swraith

  1. PT is recommending acute inpatient rehab. Multiple facility options here in Denver that are directly connected with hospital. I have asked the case worker to also contact the Central Texas Rehab Hospital as a referral to see if they will review her file. The main barrier to Austin is transport. She is far from ready for commercial transport. Private medical transport is $$$$$. I also left message with Stokes office attempting to make contact. Trying to determine if we should do rehab here with extended stay in Denver vs return to Austin for rehab. Kids, school starting in August, various support networks in the 2 cities make it complicated to figure out.
  2. @Doc Holliday Thanks for the pointers on TXOrtho and commenting on Stokes. @Lobo Thanks for the tip on Dr Stokes. Sounds like I need to make contact with his office though I'm unclear where he is working. @DalTxHornFan Thanks for the tip on Dr Stovall Surgery is done and a success in surgeon's eyes. He confirmed I need to find an Austin doctor long term to monitor wife's recovery once we return to Austin. Her L3 was a severe burst fracture. Due to other complications and pre-existing conditions her entire spine is now fused. So that is going to be a bitch. But she should be able to walk with a great amount of PT.
  3. I don’t post much but am searching far and wide for help. My wife was in a hiking accident yesterday and was helicoptered to a Denver hospital. She is getting spinal fusion surgery and a rod extension for broken/fractured lower vertebrae. I don’t have the actual diagnosis yet as she went from ER to surgery in a little over 12 hours. I have zero concrete idea what recovery and PT will be like but my understanding is that it will be really rough. At some point my wife will be stable and recovered enough to return to Austin. How she will get to Austin…I have no idea yet. I am assuming she is going to need a specialist doctor once she returns to Austin. I don’t know if she will need an orthopedic or neuro doc. Her surgeon today is a neurosurgeon doing the spinal fusion. So anybody have recommendations on the best spine doctors in Austin for follow up on two spinal fusion surgeries along with spinal rods attached to the spine? Also looking for PT recommendations with a spine focus. Appreciate any leads to help us move along once we get back to Austin whenever that is.
  4. If you are behind, doesn’t the sale price just need to be sufficient to meet the payoff…including whatever they are behind on? If the sales price is below the amount needed, that would be a blocker as they likely would not have cash. The mortgage holder would seem to prefer the home sold and loan paid off vs the expenses of foreclosure.
  5. Won't Republican legislators just leave town until the Democrats return or time runs out on the special session? Why would they need to stay in Austin?
  6. anyone care to forecast how this plays out? Texas R's will just make news headlines. Texas D's staying in D.C. until end of this special session. Do the Texas D's have the fortitude for such an undertaking? Then does Abbot just call another special session and we start all over?
  7. This is us. And we are not going back.
  8. It is going to be a great summer to not be in Texas
  9. Estes Park hit 90 degrees today.
  10. i'm sure you neighbors would love you if you tried
  11. Any of you want to claim this pool? (hoping this wasn't posted previously upthread). 25 Meter (Short Course) Backyard Lap Pool Construction Timelapse
  12. With the pipeline restarting, hope the people in those photos enjoy sitting on their stockpiles of gasoline.
  13. Wonder if that gets torn down for a new build on that nice corner lot.
  14. LCRA rain gauge I monitor says today and yesterday were a total bust which is about what I expected.
  15. Sigh. I get it. Beef industry wants its regulatory protections from competition. So nice of our "small government" officials using big government tactics to create barriers of entry.
  16. Harvested my last batch of sugar snap peas. Making room for some Thai basil plants. My first sun gold tomatoes are ripening. Also growing some black cherry tomatoes. Blackberry crop looks really good this year. Berries coming along nicely. Getting my first ripe mulberries as well.
  17. For those of us not familiar with procedural rules of the committee....why did he stop the vote? I assume its not based on the opinion of the Vice Chair.
  18. I've used five stone for the last 3 or 4 years. Can't remember. They auto file every year. They get the appraisal value reduced to some degree every year. I've never gotten a massive reduction in taxes via them...but I haven't had to pay them much either. Their fee structure changed this year. All that said, my appraised value is less than what I could sell the property for...so its hard to complain...too much. I recommend them.
  19. Sucks for those getting hail. Lack of rain in Austin...so far..is disappointing. I’m posting this to hopefully jinx it and bring the rainfall Thursday. Maybe the force field will go down.
  20. This is a screenshot from Redfin for a listing in Austin MLS. Redfin (if you create an account and login) will show both list price and sold price (per MLS).
  21. 2 of my 5 Texas Sage (Cenizo) appear to have not survived. Weirdly they are the 2 largest and oldest. No signs of green anywhere. The other 3 have been pushing out green leaves for 2+ weeks. St Aug is starting to perk up. I age started to out down some supplemental water. We appear to be very dry, behind in rainfall. I’m really hoping we don’t have a 2011 summer that followed our dev attic blast this year ...like the one that followed our 2011 feb winter.
  22. Today was rough. Sneezing and runny nose. Itching eyes. I was outside all week without issue. Today...totally different. Ugh.
  23. Got my 1st shot of moderna today in Williamson county. Was super convenient. Now I wait for the second shot. Glad to join the party finally.
  24. Presumably these would be tied to EEA events if ERCOT is going to dispatch them. ERCOT doesn't experience EEA events very often. With a mild summer you could easily have these plants sit idle for long periods of time. On the face of it....I can't see this getting through the legislature. It is effectively a capacity market paid to a single resource owner....as opposed to a competitive auction like in PJM. Historically, Texas Legislature has hated anything resembling a forward capacity market. I run through the list and think of all the other entities that would oppose this. Heavy industry, manufacturing, retail energy providers, existing generation owners, existing municipally owned utilities likes Austin Energy, Cooperatives like Pedernales. I have to think that if this got built...the dispatch of the plants...would require that prices remain high in realtime. The market would almost instantly see price drops in real time with this generation coming online....unless it is full on grid collapse....which again....isn't very often. ERCOT already has over 1000mw of responsive reserve (generation that is online but not dispatched...in case plans trip offline) and also procures non-spin...generation that can be brought online is a very short period of time. Obviously it does not procure 10,000 mw of these types of reserve a day....as that is absurd in a normally functioning market.
×
×
  • Create New...