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Good News & Pure Bliss

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Good news all around…but we never doubted that we would hear anything different now did we?! The specialist says Adam should have a full recovery (yippee!), he started him on steroids and Adam already says they feel even better tonite. He should actually hopefully be able to return to work within a couple of days. Like I said in a previous post: We. Are. Blessed.

On an entire different note but a much deserved one, we don’t have showers yet here in the house. Both bathrooms with the showers are ALMOST done but not quite. We DO, however have the jacuzzi tub in and just got the jets started the end of last week. I have been soooooo looking forward to this for over two years…literally, people. When we were in Hawaii two years ago last May I bought this bottle of bath stuff from one of the spas we were at because I couldn’t wait to use it in our “new jacuzzi tub”! Well…two years and some odd months later I finally got to try it tonite.

I started hollering and Adam comes in and found me like this…of course having the common sense that he has (and that I lack) he asks me how much did I put in. I just poured “a little bit” and then I look at it and it says 3 capfuls….and this would be 3 capfuls probably in a NORMAL bath not a jacuzzi but hey, I’m a learnin’.

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And, folks….these weren’t your typical Mr. Bubble bubbles from when we were kids that just bubbled up for a brief enough period of time to tease you and then dissolved away. These were the real deal. One could make like bubble castles and stuff.

By the way, the stuff was worth the wait, it smelled VERY good too!

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the culprit

To lighten our mood…

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So (there is the so again) today two funny things happened. Jason, a friend of ours that has a hilarious sense of humor sent Adam this text message as a joke:

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And then Adam REALLY wanted some DOVE dark chocolate so I bought him a bag (one gets treats ya know when you are laid up!) and the very first chocolate he took out said this (which is perfect as we are driving down the road and he has his eyes closed and hands me the wrapper to read him the quote):

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Another near miss~Another BLESSING

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So, I just love starting out by saying so…last month Adam had an accident at home that I guess I didn’t blog about, not sure why. 1050lbs (yes, that is 1.0.5.0!!!!) of sheet rock fell on him, pinning his lower body. He was able to reach his cell phone and just started calling people. He called me first~not sure why as my muscles wouldn’t have helped but he did, the sweetheart. I was seeing a patient though so didn’t answer the phone. He called a couple of other people and happened to get a friend of ours to answer the phone who, thank God, was only two blocks away. He came charging into the house and single handedly was able to lift the sheet rock off of Adam…talk about adrenalin. We are amazed to this day. We were so blessed that it didn’t snap his legs, crush his pelvis. All it did is cause a TON of bruising and muscle pain/cramps. His flanks (lower back) were beat up too from where he fell backwards on a table when the sheet rock fell on him. But, in the end he was okay and we thank Him for that!

Fast forward, Kalia could have been killed rather than just the broken bones and lung contusion. We thank Him for that as well.

Fast forward to this past Saturday. Adam went to a wedding a couple of hours away (I wasn’t with him) and when he got to the reception hall he noticed some steam coming from under the hood of his car. His battery exploded into his face. They were 20 minutes from the nearest hospital so they irrigated his face and eyes like crazy there before a couple of friends and a nurse that was there took off with him to the er.

This is the call none of us like to get. “Shana, first…I want you to know that Adam is okay but there was a little accident”. They took him to Grand Island, three hours from me, 30 minutes from my sister so I called her and she went to join him and I took off like a wet diaper!

We. Are. Blessed. Adam has mostly just first degree burns to his face, with only a few small areas that are second degree. We think his left eye was exposed to more acid than the right as it is more painful and he actually has a second degree burn on that eyelid. His eyes, of course, were the area of biggest concern and remain so today.

They irrigated and irrigated again and again and did ph testing on his eyes and let us leave the er late Saturday evening. I was so thankful my sister came~it was great to have her there. After we got Adam settled into the car I stepped behind the car and proceeded to ralph up the two cans of mountain dew I drank on the way there. We’d had a rough couple of days prior to this anyways so I didn’t feel good to begin with and then worrying I guess is what led to that ralphing. At any rate, this proceeded to occur periodically on our way home. We were undoubtedly a sorry site I am sure. Poor Adam couldn’t open his eyes so he was car sick and then there I am swerving to the side of the insterstate at random times to spew, making his stomach even more queasy. But, we made it. We made it home in the middle of the night and boy, was it a sweet sight…for me anyways. =0)

They are swollen shut~we can open them manually, the left one with much pain. He says his right eye is clear and his left eye is blurry. Yesterday morning when we opened them to put the ointment and he saw for the first time his first words were “you’re just as pretty as I remember” (what a schmoozer).

The whites of his eyes are completely red and swollen as well. We are putting an ointment in frequently and he is on oral pain medicine. We are going to a specialist today to see what to do next. I really think he’ll recover fully and am so very thankful for this.

So, once again we thank Him for this.

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getting ready to do more irrigating

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My freshly employed husband

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I always say that my husband is the hardest worker that I know that makes no money. Literally. He is the most generous man I know. The past five years have been a time in our lives where he has tried many different jobs. He wanted to be his own boss. Own his own business. He has his degree in electronic engineering but has been dabbling in other things. We owned the furniture store of course for over two years which he (we really) actually loved but then the economy started to turn and we sold it “just in time”.

He went from that to owning Four Seasons~a lawn and snow business. Meanwhile we opened Heartland Gifts and Decor which we recently closed because of reasons mentioned here. The lawn business actually didn’t do too bad. But we aren’t in the mountains and the snowfall is unpredictable. He only had to push snow three times last winter. Therefore, no financial security whatsoever. And, we have been talking more and more about children and about being more financially secure. He just happened to get a call about a potential job from an old friend.

Back when I was in grad school ten years ago we lived in Grand Island, Nebraska and he was an engineer for EDS, a sign company. They made and repaired, etc the signs that you see at businesses such as gas stations (the electrical ones). Well, then we moved to Great Falls where I got my first position after school and that was that. EDS was recently bought out by a company called SignCo located in Lincoln. A much BIGGER company. They are the ones that installed DLP systems for Penn State University, Mississippi State University and Oregon State University as well as the Detroit Pistons for example. Well, they need another engineer and one of his old friends from the sign company in Grand Island recommended they track Adam down. He has worked just a few days this past month just getting his feet wet. Some of the electrical components are changed of course but all in all he remembers most of it. The first night he came home and told me how GREAT it felt to hold the soldering iron again and that he hoped I didn’t mind if he became a nerd again! WEIRD! So, they tell him Adam, here is your desk and he looks at it and behold: it is the SAME desk he had ten years ago in Grand Island. When they bought out the company everything was bought. He’s excited, I’m excited, I am sure our checking account is excited!

I will miss him being so flexible, though. And I will worry about him commuting. It is about 50 minutes one way. But, it is a necessary change…who knows what the future holds for me too. I just know that good things are for sure to come! We have to keep thinking that somehow~if only I remember this EVERY day.