<p>Oh, dear. D home for a visit last weekend. Drove H’s new-to-him Suburu to visit high school friends. Went back to her college area yesterday. Discovered huge dent in rear fender corner today. The whole corner is crunched in. H out of town. Gets back tomorrow.</p>
<p>I sure hope someone backed into her, and not the other way around. I might need a hug tomorrow.</p>
<p>mom60-- Thank you! It helps to know I am not the only one dealing with this.</p>
<p>Oh dear, bookiemom - I am hoping your D is completely unaware - that perhaps it happened while she was parked somewhere, and she never looked, and not just that she didn’t tell you. Have you talked to her yet?</p>
<p>My D has arrived in Germany safely and ahead of schedule. First flight was a bit late, but she made her connection okay, and got there early enough to take an earlier train that what we’d planned. I think that she is going to come home so stinkin’ confident that she doesn’t need us anymore.</p>
<p>My H and I went out to eat last night, and when we got in the car, the radio was playing Kenny Chesney’s “There Goes My Life.” My H, who doesn’t care much for country (we were in my car), was hearing it for the first time. If you aren’t familiar with the lyrics:</p>
<p><a href=“Vaoroi Tv - Trực Tiếp Bóng Đá Hôm Nay Vaoroi - Hd Mượt Mà Blv”>Vaoroi Tv - Trực Tiếp Bóng Đá Hôm Nay Vaoroi - Hd Mượt Mà Blv;
<p>Oh Bookiemom, can I sympathize! We have had both kinds of dents this summer (Very aware…see my earlier posts) and some of the “where did that come from” variety. Either way, it’s expensive and annoying. But as everyone has said to me during our car travails…its only metal and no one is hurt.</p>
<p>Same here. S got a big dent in his “new to him” truck last month when he left in in a apt. parking lot for a few hours. </p>
<p>I am so anxious about S right now (hugs anyone?). He left the country on July 4 headed (alone) for Istanbul and then on to a smaller town in Turkey where he boarded a US Navy vessel (he’s in NROTC). Worried about him for days until I finally got a short email on July 13 saying he was OK and headed for Crete. I have not heard another word from him since. He has a ticket for a return flight on July 27 (from Italy)) but told me before he left that it wasn’t carved in stone as he would be at the mercy of the ship’s schedule.<br>
I am dying to hear from him(check email 9 times a day!) and to know if he’ll be returning on Friday but there is no way to get in touch so I have to just sit here and wait…ugh</p>
<p>Hugs to you, PackMom! It would drive me crazy not having any method of contact! I can relate to the checking email constantly. I’m even a bit more obsessive - I check Google News frequently, too! (Checked it yesterday for plane crashes, when my flight tracker didn’t move for several hours!) I register for alerts on Google news for things my kids are involved in, as well. Hopefully if your S can’t make the July 27 flight, he will contact you soon so you know!</p>
<p>Packmom,
Heard from son yet?
Only 48 hours to go!</p>
<p>Definite hugs for you Packmom…and prayers and good vibes he is soon safely home. </p>
<p>And I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who keeps the flight tracker on when one of their kids is in the air. I’m a ‘frequent flyer on xanax’, so I’m only comfortable when I can see the little plane moving on my computer screen. And huge sighs of relief when the ‘taxiing’ screen pops up.</p>
<p>ldmom…now if they only had a car tracker, we’d be all set. 
It is a riskier venture!<br>
~~signed another mom who gets anxious waiting for that call</p>
<p>Thanks for the cyber hugs…still no word from my sailor.</p>
<p>CAR tracker for college students! hmmmm…now there is an idea sooz! Can you imagine how great that would be…for US! lol!</p>
<p>Sooz - yours is in Germany right? Is she on her way home or is she still traveling there?</p>
<p>Berurah,
You started this thread…where are you?</p>
<p>Is everything OK?</p>
<p>MoWC needs to check in too!! Hope she is doing okay! I think this probably the day when she is starting to really feel the pain.</p>
<p>Here I am. Pain isn’t too bad (drugs help a lot…). My co-workers don’t want me back at work this week, so I will actually allow myself to heal a little. I start PT tomorrow (3 days post surgery). Not sure what all I can do since I can’t bear weight on the leg! I guess just range of motion stuff. I took a bath today, even though I wasn’t supposed to. It required some interesting gymnastics to keep my right knee dry, but I did it.
Thanks for the thoughts.</p>
<p>Glad to hear you are doing well MoWC! Be careful in that bathtub…lol!</p>
<p>LdMom…my daughter who went to Germany traveled there just for the weekend. She is spending the summer in an internship in Paris. She had a great time in Germany and had never been there before. She went to Frankfort. She visited a French friend with whom she worked in France last summer and who was doing a semester long internship in Germany. She is back in Paris now, on her own. Is planning her next excursion to Switzerland. I have to say that my daughter is very very good about calling when she arrives at her destination, is delayed, etc. It helps. Still, the kids do grow up. This child (not really a child! she is going to be 21 at the end of summer), has traveled a lot independently. But she plans her travels ahead of time and provides me with all contact information and so forth. I would not do well in a situation where I had no way of contact. </p>
<p>Good luck to all who are enduring health issues, or their children.</p>
<p>EDIT…cross posted with MOWC…so glad to hear you are recovering and taking some time for yourself. I had a ski accident once where I blew out my knee (very painful!) but I never had surgery to repair it. I don’t envy you but I hope it all goes smoothly and that you take it easy and let others wait on you!</p>
<p>soozie - I’m so impressed with your daughter; she sounds self-sufficient and mature, especially about planning and keeping you informed. I’m still concerned when mine has to figure out how to get from RDU to Chapel Hill…lol! </p>
<p>I guess the worry just never really goes away huh? :)</p>
<p>LdMom, I definitely worry a lot. I am just saying she is very good about letting me know her whereabouts and especially when traveling, calling when arriving, etc. But you are right that the worrying never ends with kids no matter how old they get. But the letting go has to happen and I did that when they went away to college. Still, their well being is something always on my mind. I guess it goes with the “mom territory.”</p>
<p>I don’t know how I have missed seeing this thread, but {hugs} to everyone who has requested one. (I had to put my readers on to find that funny-looking bracket) </p>
<p>I guess I could use an encouraging hug…H returned from a business trip to England and Scotland. He told me over the phone what a great trip it was, one of the best he’s ever had business-wise. He gets home and … well, he looks just awful. He was mugged less than two blocks from his hotel the first night. It happened so fast that he never saw a thing. One guy grabbed him in a headlock and another socked him a few times and they took some loose money from his pocket (fortunately not his wallet/passport as people walked up just then). So he’s got two black eyes. By the time he came home, they were more like raccoon eyes and whatever swelling there was had gone. Somehow he never noticed, but one side of the bridge of his nose is now concave. So after I have my little girlie fit ("oh baby!!!), he goes to the dr where it turns out that his nose is broken and they have to sort of re-break it to push it back out (and that was nothing but nasty).</p>
<p>Oh and s is having his wisdom teeth out next week. There’s a reason I never became a nurse… So, maybe a little hug for me and a couple of large ones for the hubby and one in reserve for s next week??? Please?</p>
<p>And to top it off, while we were both gone, a very large tree branch crashed down on son’s car in the driveway, crumpling the hood and knocking the light out on the side. What the…!!!</p>
<p>zimmer…your family needs a Group Hug!! Seriously. Thankfully your husband is not worse but that sounds like a really bad experience. I hope the days ahead are brighter for your family. It makes you realize that a “normal” day is a good day!</p>