Monumental events in my life in 2009:
My health crisis. Having had almost picture-perfect health for my entire life, this was a life-altering experience. I battled some kind of inflammatory nerve condition for about three months. I'm happy to say through exercise and the sterling efforts of my physical therapists, I have almost fully recovered, the only remnants of my condition a slight numbness in the last three fingers of my right hand.
While I was battling my physical ailments, my house decided to get sick as well with a back porch roof needing complete replacement and a shower head falling off in mid-use causing me to finish my cleansing under a single stream of water coming from the bare pipe. And without strength in my right hand to fix it, I had to enlist the help of a friend after I found a replacement head for it. With all of the doctor, medicine, hospital, and physical therapy bills looming (even with insurance), the last thing I needed was to deal with expensive home repairs.
In the midst of all this, I also had to renew my driver's license right when I was in terrible physical condition. A three hour wait in line before making it to schedule an appointment did me no good either, but I did get it out of the way.
