I was supposed to have a tiny little speck of skin cancer excised from the inside of my right elbow but it was put off - finally had it done at the end of June and results were that the margins were clear. The "tiny" little speck required 11 stitches as Dr. Smith wanted to make sure! Good for him! And good for me!
Since there's only so much TV one can watch, I decided to have the Master Bathroom reconfigured. I know, I know - can't call it "master" as that indicates something about slavery! Tough! Andrew came out and spent a long day and we finally came up with a plan. Materials were selected and then ordered, and then I tweaked an item or two and those things were ordered. Now, the waiting begins. Andrew said six to eight weeks for start date and two to three weeks for completion. I've heard that story before. Lisa, who is my project coordinator, texts me a few times a week to keep me updated on the arrival of the materials.
Here's a photo of way BEFORE:
That's Vicki a few years ago. We had such a fun time gathering the mirrors for above the never-used bathtub. So that shower is going to go away and become a closet; the tub is going to go away and become a level huge shower.
When Jay could no longer bath himself, I found it extremely difficult to get him to the shower chair and get him cleaned. I am thinking of my future - just in case.
Now, since I'm going to need a place to sleep and bathe while deconstruction and reconfiguration goes on, I needed to get Jay's wing ready for inhabitation. The painter was called and in two and a half days, Jay's office, bedroom and bathroom were patched and painted.
New blinds are ordered and should be here the first week of August, but here's an interim photo or two.
There is a recliner in each room that need to be donated to Salvation Army but at this point, they're not permitted to enter a home - can only go into the garage to get furniture. So the ugly chairs will stay until a can get some burly boys to get them to the garage.
Since the painters were going to be here, they also stripped the garage of warped and sagging wood shelves, patched and painted - I wanted it to look like new.
The floor will be painted in November or December so as not to leave my car outside during tornado season. Also, I was agile enough to put the two metal shelves together. I'm hoarding boxes as I'm going to have to use the boxes as storage for my clothes during the bathroom remodel.
There are also several boxes of Jay's "car stuff" that Jacques will have to go through when he comes back to Dallas. He took a van-load back to the Hill Country to sell on his online auction and said he'd be back in early fall. There's also tons of car books and posters that need to go to a better home.
Little by little, things are coming together. Hopefully, by mid-September I'll be back to "normal" whatever that is.
