Your broken AC took my memories back to the late 1980's when I was married & we had just bought our 2nd brand NEW home. They had just finished construction & we closed escrow & moved in over 4th of julys weekend after living in an apartment for over 6 months with most of our furniture in storage. This nice 2500 sq foot home seemed like a castle.

The gotcha was that I had injured my knee playing racquetball 5 years before & it was getting so bad I could hardly walk let alone do stairs or Cary heavy boxes. I finally found a good orthopedic surgeon who informed me I needed knee reconstruction...scheduled the end of August.....oh yes, forgot to say...this new home was in the southern California desert where summers get into the 110F + temps. Not bad if you are inside an AC building.

Ok, had surgery on my left knee..before they did it arthroscopically so I had a huge full leg cast on & they had extra plaster to they made it even more bulky. I had crutches to get around on. Came home to what I thought would be a nice AC home....which it was for the first few days until this brand new central AC unit broke.

I was stuck in the house because I couldn't drive...my auto was stick shift & there was no way to drive it. I didn't know any of my neighbors but most of the houses were still being built so I didn't have many neighbors anyway. When I looked at the thermometer inside the house, it was over 100F. If I opened the windows it would get even hotter. On crutches I had a hard timee just getting around let alone trying to get anything to drink from the refrig & holding it while walking on crutches. I was home alone because my H was back at work while I was home on sick leave after the surgery. I was so miserable. I couldn't even stand in the shower to cool off because it was such a hassle to get up the stairs.....& then my leg where the incision was started to swell from all the heat.

I was trying to get the construction contractors to get the AC fixed but it was a bad compressor & for some reason, they couldn't get the part. LOL. I called the guy we bought the home from at the sales office & explained the problem....within a a few hours, they took the AC unit from the vacant house next door & got it installed in ours & by the end of that day, we had a working AC again after almost a week of 100F weather in the house.

I don't remember ever being so miserable in all my life as I was that week. Top it off, my H had to take me to the ortho surgeon because he wanted to make sure the incision wasn't infected. They opened the cast in that area, found it was ok, then poured bedadine on the incision & closed it back up....while I was still in the hot house. Several weeks later when they took the cast off to put on a lighter weight one for another 2 weeks....they found that the bedadine had burned my skin under the cast....no wonder why it was even more miserable than I had thought.

After surviving that....I feel like I could survive anything.....I don't usually use my AC, but this summer has already been in the 90's & where I live now, it's really humid.....so Im thinking I will probably break down & use my AC in spite of the higher electric bill using it....sometimes the need for comfort WINS.

You are right...God's mercy dropped the temp here this week also. Will see what next month brings. I use the ceiling fan over my bed. I have a window fan & have a storm door that has a screen opening when sliding down the glass so I can keep the front door open with the cooler night air. Small fan on the counter in the master bath & in my computer room after my ceiling fan in there broke. Have heard that sitting a bucket of ice cubes in front of a fan helps cool the air even more....but in reality there is NOTHING LIKE A WORKING AC.