Stressful Stuff: Hospital, Furnace Break Down , Bat in Basement

Wouldn't you know it? Goes down to 24 below zero and furnace breaks down. 

A lot of stress lately. The Better Half has been feeling poorly lately. Visit to her kidney Dr revealed low levels of iron and hemoglobin. This was on Wednesday Feb. 4. He admitted her into hospital for blood transfusion and an iron infusion. She was there overnight, came home on Thursday. At same time our oil furnace began acting up. Blower motor wouldn't shut off. Then when it did and seemed ok it began short cycling, that is the burner would stop before reaching the set temperature. The burner and fan were not working together. Seemed to me the Fan Limiter Switch was bad. Anyhow, it acted up. By Sunday morning it was 24 below zero. Called Bartlett's heating left message. They came out Monday morning. Got things going. Blower appeared to be working properly. Technician Wade left at 12:30. Blower was on. And stayed on. By 3:00 it was still going. Something wrong. Wade came back. messed around ith wiring and switches. I left him in basement for about 10 minutes. Went back to basement n discovered he had everything buttoned up and was gone. No word to me about anything. THEN, the blower would not come on at all. The burner would light and burn until it was shut off due to overheating. 

Today another guy came out, left without a repair. Need parts. Supposed to come back tomorrow, but will be someone else he says. When he left I was able to start and stop the blower manually with a jumper wire. After a couple hours I shut it down. When I tried to use jumper wire again there was nothing but a clicking sound. Like a relay not working. So tonight once again no furnace. Warmer tonight so less worry about freezing plumbing. Wood stove n kitchen gas stove keeps first floor comfortable. Just hope tomorrow they come back with parts and get it working properly. 

On another note, yesterday I walked 6,781 steps. Today was 4,824. 

OH! Horror of horrors, as cold as it's been I went to the basement last night to check temperature as there was no furnace going. I opened the door and saw a BAT flying round. I was astonished. Called Eric Jewitt a pest control guy that deals with bats. He is supposed to be here about 9:00-10:00 tomorrow morning. I searched the basement today and could not find any signs of the flying creature.