3 Weeks Post-Op

Today marks 3 weeks since Sam's surgery....some days it feels like time has flown by and other days I wondered why time stood still. Each day is something different... Sam finds new things that cause him pain, some days he has energy and wants to walk/do steps and other days he wants to take a nap and feels winded to do much.

Sam is down to one night sweat....the washing machine and I thank him for this :) I am now a pro at changing sheets at 3am as well, having fresh clothes on stand-by and still able to get back to sleep. When we have children one day it will be a breeze with the training I have now. Sam has been sleeping in bed more and last night made it all night in bed - HUGE!! I am starting to inch the thermostat down a bit... Consumer's Energy called to see why its going down... kidding but I think they freaked out with it being so high lately.

I know some of you are curious about his incision... Dr. Hanzel and nurses at U of M think his incision is one of the best they have ever seen. The two "bullet holes" underneath are from the chest tubes. Although Sam thought now would be a good time to come up with a story about being shot twice and then having to have emergency open heart surgery...

We have had a very trying week in the Kalef house... anyone in Michigan knows that on Tuesday we got a lot of rain and with that rain came water in our basement. This time it chose to come in on a different wall that was finished. I can't thank our friends, family and family of Fire Station 2 that came over to help me tear down the wall, vacuum up water, move furniture away etc. Sam took this hard because he wasn't able to do anything and went up/down the steps one too many times on Wednesday to check the damage. It was frustrating to sit upstairs for him and hear the drilling, hammering and all sorts of noise we could create in the basement.

[Basement leak discovered....we tried to patch it but water was coming in too much]

[The dyke we created so I could sleep that night and keep the water out of the basement. The water drained into the shop vac and ran from the garden hose to the sump pump]

[After the rod holes were filled and the crack was sealed. Note the sun that we discovered upon removing the wall/insulation]

For me its a bit different... I now know how to accomplish a lot on my own. I can attach a garden hose to a shop vac and route it to the sump pump and clear kinked hose lines if needed. I learned all about rod holes in our foundation walls thanks to Adam at Smith's Waterproofing. I can assist in patching walls and much more!

Enjoy your weekend!