We had an easy drive today from our usual motel area off I-95 in Savannah, GA into the Orlando area. We have checked into the Seralago Hotel and Suites in Kissimmee, very near to an entrance to Walt Disney World. It feels funny not actually being here on vacation and preparing to go into the parks!
It's been frustrating trying to set up the water, electric, home owner's insurance, and landline phone. We have an appointment tomorrow at 1 p.m. for the home owner's insurance. We have to come in with a contract and the full year's payment and do it all in person. Right after that we head to Toho Water. It's weird that water here is a private company. We have to show up in person with the house sales contract, a social security card, photo ID, and $150 deposit to get water for the house. In Maryland, since the water is a county service, it's magically handled through the title company at settlement. I think we got electric prepared to start sometime between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on Friday, the day of settlement. They wouldn't commit to any particular time. That seemed weird also. When Mark spoke to them, it seemed as if the electric is already off in the house. Bummer. It will get very hot and take awhile to cool back down. No luck on the phone yet at all. Down here we had to give our social security numbers to everybody so credit checks could be run to get water, electric, phone, and insurance. Does that mean that the usual homeowner down here is a really bad credit risk? We don't remember having to have credit checks run on us for those things in Maryland.
Still we are keeping positive and feel happy to be in the neighborhood.
The only other wrinkle so far is that we were to have an email of the HUD-1, which is the closing costs statement. Down here they want the entire costs wired 24 hours before settlement. In Maryland I can't believe a buyer would ever have to pay the day before settlement, but down here that's normal. So we have to go to the bank tomorrow to wire all the money. Problem is that we didn't get the HUD-1 tonight, despite the fact that the agent told me that by law I was entitled to it 48 hours before settlement. Well, they surely missed that deadline. Hopefully it will show up soon tomorrow otherwise we don't know how much money to send them.
Finally I had one more unsettling bit of knowledge added to my breast cancer case. I had read online that women with invasive lobular cancer have higher amounts of ovarian cancer, so I called my GYN to ask his opinion of having a pro-active hysterectomy. He had not been in the office when I went with the lump back in June, so he had not seen my file. He was STUNNED. I have been his patient for over 15 years, and he remembered just seeing me in April. He said, "But you had a normal mammogram in April." I said, yes. Then...he said something a bit disturbing. He said, well the one from two years ago said there was a mass but it was listed as benign and then this year it showed the mass was smaller and still benign. WHAT???? The little paper I got in the mail always just said normal. There was a MASS two YEARS ago???? No one told me??? And these mammograms were taken and read at the same radiology place as the recent ultrasound that also said benign lump, re-evaluate in six months. Are these radiologists crazy? Incompetent? Not LOOKING???? I'm appalled.
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