Adam had to build an access door to get to our jacuzzi tub in the event it ever needs to be repaired. The door is actually in my craft room and allows him to crawl in behind the tub. As you can see he didn’t allow himself much room to grow…
When it rains it pours. Last night at the hotel the dogs got away from me (they spend the days in the backyard at the house and nights with us in the hotel. At any rate, I couldn’t get them to come back and Adam and I drove around and around trying to find them for quite some time. Amazingly Holly found her way back to us at the hotel. We never did find Kalia. We looked and looked and went to bed sickened that we couldn’t find her. We decided to leave the gate to our backyard open in case she found her way home.
At 6:30 this am Adam drove to the house to see if she found her way home and she had. She had also gotten through the doggy door and up the four steps into the mudroom. Adam walked in and her tail started wagging. But, her leg was hanging.
Kalia got hit by a car sometime during the night. She was dehydrated and in shock. She has road rash all over and a pulmonary contusion on the right side (bruised right lung). Both of her leg bones in her front left leg were broken very badly and poked through her skin. Adam didn’t realize this at first he just knew her leg wasn’t right and he scooped her up and put her in the car and came to me at the hotel. We didn’t even take her out of the car…he just took off for Lincoln to the Veterinary Medical Center we use.
Our vet could not treat this severe of a fracture and initially talked about sending us to K State’s Vet hospital (ugh!!!) but there happened to be a K State Orthopedic Surgeon that is board certified in Omaha today! So she called him to find out if he’d see Kalia and she came in to tell us the estimate of what it would most likely cost. This is kind of when I finally decided to lose it. The poor vet, I just cried…dripping all over Kalia’s head. It just seems like one thing after another right now. And, financially my gosh!!!! Well, what do you do…we went to Omaha and he is awesome. (note: right about now my sister is probably thinking to herself, you two need to have a kid) He really wanted to do surgery on her today but because of the dehydration and her lung could not. He is quite concerned about the risk of infection with the bone having gone through the skin. She will have a plate and 6 screws placed hopefully tomorrow if she is stable enough.
Resting (or shall we say drugged) in the backseat on the way to Omaha
We are in awe that she found her way home. What amazing instinct these animals have. And, her tail…Adam says she was just a wagging it away when she saw him come to her.
We are overwhelmed. Things did not go as easily as we hoped last week with the floor refinishing. We thought we could start walking on them Thursday night but we misunderstood. It will take another 2-3 weeks for them to finish curing so we can’t put any furniture back on the floors but we can now walk barefoot on them at least. Our bedroom itself happens to be the only room in the home we carpeted but where do you think we put all of the stuff that can’t be on the wood floors?
A glimpse into our bedroom
Yep, our bedroom is a mess, the bathrooms and entry way are stocked full of stuff because they are tiled floors. It’s a mess and VERY overwhelming~did I already elaborate on the overwhelmingness of the situation?! So, we continue to reside at the local Super 7, at least through Thursday for now…On the bright side, that means I have got to watch two more NFL games on tv.
Below is just a glimpse of our finished floors. We are still in the hotel so I do not have access to all of our “before” pictures showing the state the floors were in before. Let me just say they were awful. Dark, grungy, stained, deeply scratched in many places. These are the original floors from 1910 that were mostly covered when we bought the house and started ripping up the carpets. We are giddy with excitement at how beautiful they are!
The sitting area in the master suite, looking into the master bath
A peak into the guest room
Heading upstairs
I lost another patient this week. A kind, gentle older man. He always smiled, always winked at me and always gave me a hug. He wouldn’t leave the exam room first…I always had to, he was a gentleman. Even though he was tired and I could tell it he always asked me first how I was and how my house is, etc. He always said, we’ll do whatever it takes. I told him he needed oxygen and he didn’t complain, we told him he needed to go to the nursing home, he didn’t complain. But, how unhappy and difficult that must have been for such an independent hard working man.
Although I’ve had a break from funerals lately it was still painful. My heart breaks for his family. Before I knew it I was crying and then started crying for my Nana. And, then they played this beautiful song “Daddy’s Hands”. Even though I don’t have my father in my life, I do have my mother and even my in-laws. It is them that I thought of during this song. I encourage you to listen to it & think of your parent(s).