I forgot to thank Hetty and Sharon for the well wishes! So, thanks :)
I also forgot to address Shoe's question about what we did about water. Fortunately, we have a large countertop water filter that provided most of our water. I also had a lot of canned and frozen broth that I used to cook with (rice, or other things that absorbed the liquid). For everything else, we bought gallons, and we simply didn't cook things that required a lot of water (like pasta). It was really really hard to cook, and honestly we ate more frozen pizzas these last months than we've probably eaten in our lifetime combined! It was part of surviving, especially those first weeks before I simply accepted that it was the new normal and I'd better adapt.
We probably would have been better off financially getting those giant jugs, but you have to remember that each step along the way was promised to work, so we weren't really going to have to live like that for long.
