March Happened

Hello!

It has been a blurry month. I think I will not be sad to turn the page from "March" to "April."

I will do a 2-part-blog, starting with good news:

Part I: DAVID
David has made remarkable progress, from the actual surgery day to today, just 22 days after the surgery. In the hospital he surprised the nurses by getting up and around sooner than they predicted, reaching 'goals' of sitting up, standing up and then walking around the loop of the hospital floor, a day or two days before "average." Then he asked to walk up the stairs they had in the Physical Therapy room, two days before they expected him to be able to. This is also why they kind of "pushed him out" of the hospital a day early. He was doing very well.

Thankfully, he continues to do well. He has not had pain in his back, even though they opened up his spine and did a major, major surgery. Discomfort, yes. He has to shift after a time of sitting, and he is very careful when he is getting up or sitting or laying down. But not pain. He told me the other day that he has not taken any Tylenol for a week now.

He was in the hospital one week, then home one week, then last week he attended early morning seminary and he would come home after seminary. We started having tutors over here for his different school subjects last week, and he has been able to focus on catching up on some school work. His teachers send packets, DVD's they watched in class, and quizzes and tests with the tutor, so he can take them here. We are continuing that this week.

Next week he may start back to school, partial days. We'll see.

He has had lots of attention, from people visiting, having both his grandmas here over the course of 2 weeks, and gifts and notes and phone calls and cards. We have felt very supported, between family, friends, and church members. That part has been wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Part II: WATER
An ongoing ugly process, vacuuming up water and pulling up the flooring and walls and insulation downstairs. Last weekend we had a POD delivered to the driveway, and had a move-the-boxes-and-bins-out-into-the-POD party. We had steady, intermittent help from church members and friends throughout the day--it worked out SO nicely, the timing. I am forever grateful for them for giving up a couple of hours on a Saturday to do a boring, lame job for us.

Now, it's raining again, third round in 2 weeks, second straight day, this round. Flood watches and warnings all over, and the water is coming into our basement again. Not nearly like it was! But it's there, pooling, in the garage. We'll watch to see if it starts again in the laundry room.


Now we make decisions, how much to do, how little, what to "finish" in the basement, this time around, and what to leave more "raw." How to re-arrange our use of the garage since the water threat is in some parts more than others.


This house is 60 years old. It needs to be bull-dozed and re-built! But we aren't in a position to do that--and would we want to, even if money was no object? Hmmm.

(Meanwhile, happy birthday to Frank, Kara, and myself this month!)

March happened. THAT is our update!

Kari