I decided to post again because recently I've been getting a lot of questions about my experience. So here are a couple of highlights from the last six months:
1) I finally received my last insurance payment. They threw out about $2500 worth of food and belongings. The payments came in three or four installments. I replaced most of what they threw away/ruined (I got a great new bedspread after the drycleaners ruined mine.)
2) The drycleaners left a lot to be desired. They ruined so much of my stuff, including my fabulous peacock costume! Not to mention, they lost all the pins and medals off my letterman's sweater. Simply irreplacable! I couldn't begin to place a dollar value on it. One of the pins was my mother's high school pin.
3) Kitty loves the new place. We've been in this place about 4 times longer than the burned apartment, and he is more comfortable here than he was in the last two places. I promised him we would stay here for a long while.
I guess, officially, the ordeal is over. But I am forever changed. I don't leave the dryer on when I leave the house. I check and double check to make sure the iron is unplugged. I go back in the house to ensure the flat iron is turned off. It makes me nervous just to cook or burn a candle. Seing people barbeque gives me the creeps. And now I am enraged for a different reason when some jack ass throws his cigarette on the ground. All courtesy of a smoking neighbor who was hooked to an oxygen tank. Can you say "duh?"
