Update on the insurance claim when my boat got creamed by house boat

**Havana Shamrock** · 10-18-2012, 09:46 PM

Steve, if it was'nt for bad luck??!???? OMG !!!! i cant read this thread anymore!! i feel
Like s**t . I cant imagine how you feel brother. I really hope things turn around for you soon!! Best of luck . We're all thinking of you!!!!

**Steve500dancer** · 10-18-2012, 10:20 PM

Oh man that is not my intention. I don't want anyone to feel crappy about my situation. Mostly my posts just help me to vent a little with the "whoa is me" stuff and laugh a little at myself. This could have been so much worst then it has turned out for me. Let alone how tiny my issues compare to others that have terminal illnesses or sudden loss of life. I am a very blessed man. I have a good career, wonderful family (for the most part...teenage step daughters don't count) and for the most part pretty good health. I am sure millions of people would trade places with me in a heart beat.

So please "don't cry for me Argentina" just stop for a moment and take a look at all that you have and don't take it for granted. It can always be gone in an instant.

Steve

**Woody** · 10-18-2012, 10:57 PM

Steve, MRSA is a tough type of staph bacteria. You no doubt were in contact with something contaminated. It's symptoms are often confused with bites. It can be nasty stuff. I take care of my elderly aunt. During a short stay in a nursing home(she fell and broke her kneecap) her room mate and herself picked it up. The room mate died, took my aunt about 3 months to totally lick the stuff.

**Steve500dancer** · 10-19-2012, 08:05 PM

Yes I have to agree that MRSA is pretty rough. However, I have been married three times. Two bad divorces will take the baby out of a guy in a hurry. I just have to tough it out for another couple of weeks and we can begin to look forward to my next crazy adventure.

The mechanic finished putting everything together today on the 500 and looks like a decent day tomorrow so I am going to go give the boat a wash and take it out for the day and maybe spend the night. I just finished cleaning all the cockpit carpets and getting some stuff ready to take back down to the boat in the morning. So again life rolls on and now the initial pain and shock of the overhaul has passed and we as boat owners know, tomorrow is another day to have another boat issue. I think we live for the day we think we are done and then we just look for another thing to fix or upgrade.

Steve

**tdschafer** · 10-19-2012, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by Steve500dancer

Yes I have to agree that MRSA is pretty rough. However, I have been married three times. Two bad divorces will take the baby out of a guy in a hurry. I just have to tough it out for another couple of weeks and we can begin to look forward to my next crazy adventure.

The mechanic finished putting everything together today on the 500 and looks like a decent day tomorrow so I am going to go give the boat a wash and take it out for the day and maybe spend the night. I just finished cleaning all the cockpit carpets and getting some stuff ready to take back down to the boat in the morning. So again life rolls on and now the initial pain and shock of the overhaul has passed and we as boat owners know, tomorrow is another day to have another boat issue. I think we live for the day we think we are done and then we just look for another thing to fix or upgrade.

Steve

For the love of god man, Please bug bomb that yacht first!!! You don't need any more visits from these guys:

**Steve500dancer** · 10-20-2012, 10:45 AM

The last bite I got was at work on the job site. I had taken my shoes off to walk through a house that had just had the hardwood finished and left them on the porch. When I came back out fifteen minutes later and slipped into my shoe it felt as if someone had shot a nail into the top of my toe. I really think that my immune system was way down do to the bite on my face that I was dealing with from the weeks before.

I know at you guys might find this a little tough to believe, but I am a bit of a type "A" personality so I always have to be doing something no matter how sick or what my body is dealing with. I never give a second thought to cuts, bruises, breaks or even exhaustion. I think I take on so much on sometimes including family, work and thinking I have to save everyone that I am willing to compromise my health and well being to do be everything to everyone and over doing what I am sometimes capable of. My body can't just tell me in a normal way to slow down. It has to slam on the breaks and make me hit my head on the dash so I will listen.

Maybe this is the time to listen

Steve

**sfergson727** · 10-20-2012, 11:28 AM

Did you figure out what bit you in the foot? Since brown recluse spider bites are supposidly painless, I'm guessing it must have been something else equally sinister.

**Steve500dancer** · 10-21-2012, 09:46 AM

Well from what the doctors say, the most obvious thing would be a Brown Recluse. They are very common in these parts (Middle Tennessee) the guess is that my body was still fighting off the infection from what ever bit me in the face a couple or three weeks prior when I took one in the foot. Although they say that most times the bite isn't that painful, that depends on where you get bit. For me the one in my face felt like a mosquito bite. Tat bite was in a pretty fleshy part of my face near or on my left temple. The second bite was on the joint of my middle toe. That felt like a quick sting with almost instant pain.

I don't think they will ever know for sure. I am going with the doctors experience and saying spider and if that doesn't work for the story I am going to go with a new species of piraña that has only been seen a few times on land but they are moving this way in great numbers. I open to any other suggestion.

Steve