Busy Week

It has been an eventful week!

I had 13 appointments at work this week, which is substantially better than my last few weeks so that we encouraging. I had one client who was a 27 year old woman who was also a mother of FOUR (ages 5, 3, 2 and 6 months). I can't imagine!

Our house is pretty well finished being framed. We now have a roof and doors and windows (I love our bay window and our big dining room window!). Wednesday evening we got a call from the electrician wondering if we could meet with him Thursday evening to do a walk through of the house to determine where we wanted our plug-ins, phone and cable jacks, light switches and some of our light fixtures. We weren't sure if Jay would be able to get into the house as we hadn't heard anything about someone setting up a ramp for him to use to get into the house. When we got there last night, the electrician was just finishing up building a pretty sturdy little ramp. I don't know if it will stay there during construction but maybe they will tuck it away somewhere for other times that Jay needs to get into the house. (I have to say I was pretty thrilled to walk around in our house with Jay!) The walk through took about an hour and a half but we got the whole house worked out and it was pretty neat! I thought it was cool the way that the electrician just went around drawing on the studs and the floor :) So exciting to see the progress! It sounded like he would be doing all the wiring for the house on Tuesday of next week. So I assume by then there will be some shingles on the roof to keep out the rain.

I got a call yesterday at work from my mom to let me know that she FINALLY has a surgery date (she has a problem with a disc in her back and it needs to be removed and the vertebrae fused, and she has been in a lot of pain and on a LOT of strong narcotic pain killers). She had talked to the surgeon's office earlier in the week and it sounded pretty much like it would be for sure September for her surgery, but she got a call yesterday offering her one on July 3rd because of a cancellation. She has been waiting for this surgery since last September and they kept putting it off on her. At first we thought it might be done around Christmas time, then March, then May, now it's for sure on July 3rd. It is quite an invasive and complex surgery that will take about 8 hours and my mom will be in the hospital for probably 10-14 days after the surgery. Then after that it will be at least a few months until she recovers to a fairly normal level of functioning, but she sure needs to get off of all of those pain killers!

Jay is going in for his LASIK surgery tomorrow. I can't believe how quickly the last month has flown by since he booked his appointment. I am excited to see how it goes and excited for Jay to be able to see without his thick glasses. Tonight we are going to put the driver's seat in the van and I am going to try to use the tie downs so I know how to do it for tomorrow when we drive to his appointment. Then he has a post-op appointment on Sunday that I will have to drive him to. I am kind of looking forward to driving him around. It will be the first time I have ever done that! I still want him to get into my car sometime and take him cruising around for an afternoon.