Apartment Life #421

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post. 

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So about 3 weeks ago I was turning over in bed and something popped in my back. I've had what I think is really bad pulled muscle since then. My doctor came out on the 17th and said that I could have weakened the bone when I fell and hurt my arms a couple of months ago and then fractured my pelvis when I turned over in bed. Because of where the pain is, he thinks it could be a pelvis fracture like a hairline fracture, a bulging disc or a compression fracture in my back. So he sent the X-ray techs out here again this week to do X-rays of my lower back.

I had to lay on the couch to get the xrays done.

 I've been having to walk with a crutch for the last 3 weeks and it could be any number of things, so he wanted to rule them all out.  I'm hoping it's not any kind of fracture and just a pulled muscle since my blood and urine tests came back and he found Myoglobin in my urine which could indicate a damaged muscle. 

I just can't stop hurting myself I guess. 🤣🤣🤣 

Oh and he told me that the xrays they took of my arms when I fell 2 months ago showed I have Osteoarthritis in both shoulders. I had a feeling about that already since I'm like Rice Krispies and snap, crackle, pop every time I move my arms. 

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This past Sunday we called 911 because the smoke detector in the apartment right next door was going off for 30 minutes. We knocked on the door and no one was home. The fire department came just to make sure there was no smoke or fire. They had a hand held device where they could see if there were any hot spots in the apartment and there weren't any so they had no cause to break the door down to get inside and check.  

Since they couldn't get in and saw no hot spots, they left. Thankfully the woman who lives there got home about an hour later. I have to wonder if she had a faulty smoke detector like I did. 

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On the 17th and into the 18th the winds were blowing! The gusts were no joke, they thought only the higher elevations were going to get 70mph gusts but we ended up having 70 mph gusts that night. It did a whole bunch of damage all over Las Vegas including the 2nd level of the pedestrian walkway at the airport collapsed and is closed indefinitely. The winds were crazy. I'm surprised we didn't have more damage here at our apartment complex. And the news said there was a gust at 82 mph on the Hoover Dam Bridge. 

The high this week was 98F/36C

The low this week was 61F/16C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.