Bad luck month

You know the old saying about if it weren't for bad luck you'd have no luck at all?  Usually I ignore that saying because as a general rule I'm one of the luckiest people on the planet.  September has NOT followed my general rule!  Seriously not.  

It started on Labor Day as I was doing general house cleaning, and began noticing many more cracks inside this house in places that hadn't shown cracks before.  So I bit the bullet and called two foundation companies to come and check the place out that first week of September.  I found out that the left front corner of the house is four inches lower than the center and the left rear corner is two inches lower.  The bottom line is that it's going to cost me $8000.00 to fix my foundation.  On a house I've lived in just over a year.  Can you say, bad inspection? *sigh*  What can you do?  It has to be fixed.  So that foundation work will start Monday. 

I've already mentioned that I bought a car the last Saturday in August.  A really cool car that's a blast to drive, by the way.  But anyway, on September 4th, (car not two weeks old yet) I took a rock to the windshield, which proceeded to form a crack about a foot and a half across the windshield.  *sobbing quietly*  My new car!!!!    Luckily my insurance covered it, but I had to order the new windshield from the dealership because the car is so new (2014), nobody had the windshield for it.  The windshield was replaced yesterday, so the car is like new again.

Okay, saving probably the worst for last -  my TB test came back positive.  Yes, positive.  I had them repeat it to confirm.  I'm not sick, I have no symptoms, my chest x-ray is clear, but because I've always had negative TB tests before, they say I'm a "new converter" and I have a latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI).  So somewhere along the way between last November and this August, I picked up TB.  Luckily, LTBI is not infectious.  You can't give TB to anyone with it (thank God, since I've been around my not-so-well parents).  Not so luckily, a small percentage of people with LTBI convert to having active TB.  So Monday I will begin the treatment for it.  The treatment for LTBI is not mandatory because some people never convert.  But the treatment does lessen the chance of ever converting, so I figure it's worth it, even if the drug is pretty liver toxic.  I just can't drink while I'm on the drug.  Which I will be daily for the next NINE MONTHS.  

It's more of a pain in the ass than anything else, but it also freaks me out a bit to think I have TB bacteria in me, latent or not.  I have NO idea where I picked it up, but if I were a betting person, I'd lay my money on the county hospital where I sign out test results.   

So those are the big three reasons why I'm saying September has been an unlucky month for me.  Along the way I also got letters from both my dentist and my primary care physician informing me that they are retiring and I'll need to find someone else.   So a few other minor bad luck inconveniences also hit this month.  I'm thinking I'll be really glad to get out of September.

The pictures are of the apparently thriving sorghum plant by my back patio, with Zoe checking it out in the first picture.   I've never been up close and personal with a sorghum before, so I figured I'd share the pictures.

One of these days I will take pictures of the new car and post them.