A day off

No appointments today! This week so far has been busy, at wound care they said that things are progressing, just slow. We will see the doc tomorrow and they may change things up on how they are caring for it. We also went to his regular doctor and he wants Josh to have another MRI on his lower back to check for reasons for his lower back pain. Sometimes it is so bad he can't sit at all for very long. He was not happy about another MRI, I am not telling him when it is again so he won't stress. He is also going to have his teeth checked out, he has been having pain in the front on top and bottom. Probably rattled them a bit when he fell. He also had a steroid shot in his shoulder to see if it would help with the pain there. He has been written off of work for another 4 weeks.  He has an appointment next week for his driving test, one step closer to going back to work. We have 5 appointments tomorrow! So far 4 has been our record, it is going to be a long day. Therapy is going well, he was so excited to show me how he can sit down on the floor and get back up without holding on to anything to get back up. He is still improving fast.

Today was busy even though we never left the house. I had Josh clean out his files and keep an eye on Asher while I demolished the sun room out back. If you have never seen our sun room it was not a small room. I had no idea what I was doing at first, I just started taking screws out. It really wasn't to bad, but I was grateful when Brayd came home from school and could help me finish up the last wall. Tomorrow we are going to take down the rest of the awning so that on Saturday we can tear up the cement, hoping to get my hands on a jack hammer. The reason I am doing all of this is I can no longer handle Brayd and Camden living in the same room, and Asher can only share with his sister so long. If we put another room on I can put the two smaller boys together and the older kids can have there own. If there wasn't such a huge age difference between the boys it might be easier for them to share. I have no idea how much things will cost but I figure that I can do almost anything and will have to so that we can save. When we talked about doing this it was before the accident and I thought we could do it together. I know he feels bad for me to do it and he can't help, he said today he wishes we could just hire it out. I am sure there are some things we will need help with, but I have to say even though I am in pain right now it was kind of fun today. When I want something done I will find a way, although I haven't found a way to move the hot tub by myself. If anyone would like to help it would be much appreciated. It is very heavy, and it needs a new home, but I just need it to the other side of the patio for now. It was good to focus my energy on tearing down the sun room today, I felt very productive. I am grateful for everyone who still reads to find out how Josh is doing, I try to write twice a week to keep the info going. I hope everyone has had a great start to 2012, much love, Denise