cavish's Profile

Long but good (I think).

I gutted my house when I bought it. I was trying to save money so I was doing all the painting myself. After my electrician finished the wiring, my contractor had his nephew install my new light fixtures on a Friday. I called him to ask if it was OK for me to paint the bathroom that weekend and he said go for it. After lying out in my bikini, I went home to paint. I was barefoot in cut-off shorts and a bikini top when I moved the bathroom vanity out of the way – I stood up behind it and all of a sudden I am like hummm…I can’t move and my jaw is clenching…and why does everything look blue? The next thing I remember is waking up across the floor against the side wall. The “nephew” hadn’t finished installing the fixture on the bathroom wall and forgot to re-cap the wires. The wires had hit my sweaty head all at once. I had been electrocuted. I found out later that if I hadn’t been sweaty and barefoot, it probably wouldn’t have happened.

My downstairs neighbor came running up – she heard a loud bang and thought something might be wrong. I had blood in my mouth from where I bit my tongue, scrapes on my elbows from where I fell and what looked like burn marks down my spine. I looked insane but really didn’t feel that bad – My neighbor made me go to the hospital just in case. I went to a teaching hospital where I was the patient de jour for a while. I had a least 3 different groups of doctors and students come in to talk to me at different times (all this in a bikini mind you). They made me spend the night to see if I had nerve damage. Other then the exit wound scars, it looks like no scary side effects (except for the ability to read minds and move things just by thinking about them).

Anyway, I am fine now and no, I didn’t sue my contractor. I was desperate to get my place finished and the thought of finding another contractor was scarier then being electrocuted.

Thanks for all the great comments! I love Brass Knob too but it's a little pricey - they do have some great stuff to drool over.

And that Salvation Army rocks! My best thrift store find ever came from there. Real cowboy boots that fit me perfectly for $5.00! It does smell a little funky.....

Caroline

Please, I would love to get even fatter.

We have one for our very large white German Sheppard (the extra large was a lot more expensive but we had no choice) and smaller Hound mix. It is the deluxe model – there are magnets around the frame and a heavy, magnetized, rubber door-flap to insure a tight fit. The dogs really have to push to open it – the Shepard picked it up right away, the Hound struggled with it at 1st. It’s no draftier then the rest of the old house. There is a locking mechanism that we can slide down if we ever wanted to. We are in rural MD and the dogs come and go as they please – even the cat uses it (she has to really ram it with her head – which is funny to watch). I don’t think a raccoon or possum would ever enter the house with the dogs around. The Shepard seems to think of them as lunch.