ACL Recovery

Yesterday after physical therapy, my wife took the kids to go and visit her mother and sister about an hour away. They planned to stay overnight. This was my idea, I felt like she needed to get out of the house for a change of pace. She was really worried about leaving me alone, but I told her that if she just got me plenty of snacks and some movies from the library (we’re too cheap to get them from the video store). That I’d be fine. Some friends from church were going to bring me dinner so that would be taken care of. What could possibly go wrong?

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This morning I thought it would be a nice surprise for my wife if I did all the laundry while she was gone. Besides I thought, I needed to start moving around more to try and kick-start my quads. So I drag the laundry hamper into the laundry room and start a load of whites. No problem.

After some time had passed, I decided it was probably time to put that load into the dryer. Unfortunately when I opened the lid to the washer, it was still filled with water. Dirty, soapy water. After fiddling with the controls for a bit, I checked a couple of sites from google and decided that perhaps the drain hose was clogged. I reach behind the machine and jiggle the hose a little. Big mistake. The hose popped off the bottom of the washing machine, and water proceeded to gush out onto the floor. After a couple of minutes I finally got the hose back on. However, now the floor was covered in water. Walking with crutches is not really hard. Walking with crutches across a floor covered in soapy water is very hard. Somehow I managed to make it unscathed to the bathroom where I retrieved enough towels to dry the floor.

After further diagnosis, it turned out that the pump had gone bad. This was a pretty old washing machine anyways, so tomorrow we’ll stop by Lowe’s after physical therapy and have a new one delivered.

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