Reducing pressures

I’m relishing the joys of having a Motability car at the moment.

For the last 40 years this has been the time for sorting out the car insurance. I always find it stressful sorting out the various insurance deals, explaining that I am disabled but that I have no specific modfications to the car beyond the need for it to be an automatic, trying to sort out an acceptable job title for me (disabled isn’t a category, & they regard me as too young to have retired) and for the Fox (full-time carer is only an acceptable category if you work for a care agency or home & he’s also been too young to have retired). Then there’s the question of courtesy car – would they provide an automatic car as it would be replacing an automatic? Would they cover us if we went abroad with the car? And so it goes on.

I’ve been reminded of all the hassle as post has arrived from various companies I’ve used or even had quotes from before. And I have sighed with relief.

One good thing is that we haven’t had to organise insurance this year. Motability does it. One less worry for us.

The other source of relief is that the car had to go in for her annual service last week. That, too, has usually been a source of anxiety. I’ve long consider MOTs & services are an excuse to find something expensive to repair. But this time we could relax in the knowledge Motability would pick up the tab, not us. Admittedly on a one-year old car there shouldn’t have been much wrong.

The other joy is that a free courtesy car was lent to us while the service was done. And what a car! A one-year old Jag no less. We really fancied a ride in it, swanking it up at the golf club perhaps. However, the Fox at that stage was so ill with his cold just walking as far as the car to have a good look at it exhausted him. He was in no state to go anywhere so the Jag just stayed parked in the road & we stayed inside admiring it.

I’m glad to say the Fox is a lot better now. After a couple of cancellations due to his cold, he even got to the hospital yesterday for his physio appointment. He’s now doing so much better that’s he’s been discharged with instructions for a few extra exercises to do as well as persevering with those he’s already doing.

Our next medical appointment is tomorrow, when we’re off to the dentist. This is another appointment that has been delayed due to colds. We’re both eager to get there as we’ve both lost fillings. Fortunately they’ve neither been particularly painful, the odd twinge that’s all, but we’re both aware of yawning chasms in our mouths & fearful of biting into anything hard & possibly shattering the thin edges of the cavity.

After that, Monday will see us at the surgery for the flu jab we didn’t have a couple of weeks ago because of our colds. Maybe then we will feel we have finally caught up with things from before our holiday & are well & truly home.