Tonight when I called Alan at 9:30 pm, he and the Sgt. were hanging sheet rock. He has been there all day today.
The progress noted in this posting was accomplished last weekend, but Alan left early this past Monday morning for off-site meetings in St. Louis for work. It has been a crazy week without him home, or I would have posted earlier. He got home just last night about 11:30 pm, and took today off work to be at Dad's working again. He left this morning about 8:30 am after checking in with his teams at the office who are working on a new release of the company's software. Sgt. Feick joined him around 4:30 pm this evening. It has been an incredibly busy week without him home. (Yes, I already mentioned that, but it warrants repeating :) ). Today I stayed at work and was here to get Malerie from school and then take her to her basketball game in Springfield. She has another one tomorrow afternoon, and Allison has a choir concert Sunday afternoon. I'm being the taxi-mom this weekend; plus I'm working on a final project for the class I'm taking.
Progress made last week was wonderful! This picture is of the posts set that will support the walk way for dad to get to the deck from the parking place we have created. In the picture, Alan is working with the post-hole digger. All of the posts were set last weekend. Tomorrow (Saturday 12/11) they plan to pour the cement pad where dad will get out of a car on a flat surface. The walkway will take him up onto the deck. Sgt. Feick (most often these days known as just Joe now), has done research to know at what slope to make the walkway so it is safe for a wheelchair. We have rented a site level to measure the lay of the land. He is being very careful about how he does his work and to make things safe.
The deck has been finished. They need to fasten in several of the boards, but they have been cut and laid, and the deck looks great. It has been secured back to the house and they are building a cement wall to support it as well.
This is a picture (below) of the inside. The piece of plastic is where stairs go to the 2nd floor. To the right if the new bathroom door, and to the left is the new bedroom door. Both doors will accommodate dad's wheelchair.
There is still much to do, but sheetrock is being hung this weekend. I do not know if any taping and mudding will get done to that. We need to finish the plumbing in the bathroom, but the shower floor has been installed. The rest of the bathroom needs to be finished, and once the sheetrock is hung and finished, I can paint. Once I know when we are going to be able to paint, I will be able to schedule the carpet laying, which will also drive when our moving date is. Once the carpet is laid, we will be able to schedule the equipment pick up and furniture re-moving. I still have a couple of things to order, but we have made good progress with equipment preparations. I have stayed in touch with the care-giver organization where we have hired two care-givers. We are all set with them. There are still so many things that need to happen, in the right order and at the right time. However, everything continues to fall into place at the right time, and in the right way. I believe it's a God-thing for so many things to try for the label of "coincidence." I do not believe in them. My God is Big.
Tonight I am praying for Alan and Joe who are staying the night at Dad's house. They will start again early in the morning, but Joe has to leave by noon, as tomorrow is his wife's birthday. I have not met her yet, but I thank her as well. Joe has been at dad's every weekend but one since we began this. If it weren't for him, this would never have taken off and would have never happened. How do you thank someone for something like that? I'm trying to figure that out.
More later.... Thank you for your support. :)
Amazing how much has been accomplished! What a precious gift.
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