the worst part

For me, waiting for something to happen, the worst part is having no control over it happening. There is nothing I can do to speed things up.

Also, this allows the 'what ifs' to creep into my head....

what if something goes wrong and they CAN'T replace the pipe? What if the rest of the house plumbing crumbles when they try messing with it? What if the new line winds up having higher pressure and it blows out one of the pipes in the wall? Will my homeowner's insurance even help with that kind of damage? Or will they help me if my house becomes totally unlivable because for some reason the water line CAN'T be fixed? What if their having to burrow under the corner of the house makes everything unstable and my house falls apart? What if it just so happens there's a gas main no one knew about right under the water pipe, and they can't dig it out or replace it?

I realize that some of those are unreasonable, but...

I think if my 3-5 pm lab gets done any early, I'm running home, getting shampoo and towel and washing my hair in one of the big lab sinks. I don't care how weird it looks. I don't care. I just want to have some kind of feeling of control in this situation, and if the only way I can get any kind of a feeling of control is through having clean hair, then so be it.