This has been a busy but not exciting week. The first part of the week was consumed by wrapping up the Snickerdoodle Preschool era and filing our last business taxes. Also early in the week, we had Merrick's MRI on his ankle and we were working with our home warranty company on getting someone to come look at a leak we have in our upstairs bathtub that's leaking into the garage.
By Wednesday, we finally started to make some progress on those fronts. Business taxes got mailed off, we got a repair man scheduled to come out on Thursday, and we got the results of Merrick's MRI. The MRI indicated that Merrick didn't break his fibula as the doctor had originally thought, but he did tear both of his ankle stabilizing ligaments and has significant bone busing. The good news is the doc felt that surgery was not indicated, just lots of physical therapy.
As the week progressed, we saw progress on the other issues as well. The repair man came out and diagnosed, but did not fix the problem because nothing is quick and easy when dealing with a home warranty company and of course we have to get approval before the repairs can be made. Merrick also started physical therapy. I was ablet to call around to find somewhere with immediate openings so at least we didn't have to wait to get moving on that. He will go twice a week for the next several weeks and the PT is setting expectations that it could be a long road. He gave him a 20% chance of playing in his first baseball tournament in 3 weeks. Merrick is determined to be that 20%, but we will see.
Saturday, we had clean up days for both baseball and softball. It was a divide and conquer kind of situation. Merrick and Jeremy went to the baseball cleanup and Elsie and I went to softball cleanup. CC had a primary activity and got out of all clean up. I will just speak to the softball clean up, which was HARD manual labor, raking rock hard ground to uncover a former field that had been completely overtaken by weeds and grass.
By the afternoon, Jeremy and I were worn out. Merrick got off easy for clean up in his current condition and Elsie spent cleanup day playing on the playground with her friends. Thankfully, the girls both had plans in the afternoon that meant that the rest of us could have some relaxing time. Carrigan went with her friends to see a play of the Hobbit and then went for ice cream. Elsie had an Auntie day extravaganza that started with lunch, ended with dinner and ice cream, and in the middle included a Target shopping spree, a movie, and a park trip.
Today we are hoping for a relaxing day that doesn't include any hard, manual labor, any complex tax forms, or any trips to the hospital or doctor. That shouldn't be too much to ask, right?
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