Well we did it, we ripped the scab off his ring finger so he wouldn’t have to get it done at PT on Tues. We did it Wed night after cleaning and soaking it Tues night and again Wed night. It was much less painful us doing it ourselves, but it did require me having to leave the room for a few minutes while he was pulling part of it with the stitches still attached.

It looks better now and is much [Read more…]

Yesterday we went to our weekly PT for Boo. Little did we know what it would entail. After she removed the bandages she asked Boo if she could remove some of the dead skin, him being naive and not realizing what she meant said yes.

We come to find out that it means using tweezers and scissors to rip off the scabs/dead skin/stitches on the pinky finger! Even though she was being gentle it was uncomfortable [Read more…]

Well I decided to make another bargain hunting trip today with my niece in tow. I told my sis that I was teaching her to be a coupon freak, LOL!

Our first stop was CVS where we got all this for $9.88! And $1.70 of that was tax.

Not bad considering it would’ve cost me $56.28! Yipee!

We then headed to Kmart to try out this new coupon thing they are doing. I normally don’t go to Kmart but when I heard [Read more…]

As we’re going on our 4th week of Physical Therapy and 3 1/2 wks post surgery things are going well. He’s been doing daily exercises, but he has to do them every hour he’s awake! He’ll get new exercises at 4 1/2 wks. His fingers are healing nicely and the stitches are trying to fall out but it’s hard when he can’t wash his hand.

We’re now to the point where I’m changing his bandages here [Read more…]

Here are the pics of the finished living room. We had to add the blinds ourselves, bought and installed by Mr. B himself 🙂 The room is huge so it looks a bit bare, but with our hopes of going back overseas we have no intention of trying to fill it (or the house!) up!

The window looking out from the kitchen

Looking towards the Entryway

From the Entryway towards the Fireplace

From the Entryway

Our 1st room that we officially completed is the Formal Dining room, although there are some pictures in the corner that need to be hung in other parts of the house. I am also missing my other set of curtains that I want to put up, but that will depend on if we can find them or not!

Here are some pics, they are a bit dark as they were taken at night with no natural lighting to help out.

Boo went back to the Physical Therapist today (He’ll see the DR tomorrow) and his fingers are looking great. He had 20% more movement in both his fingers than last week. He’s continuing to do his excercises and I’m continuing to write his homework…nothing like being in 7th grade again, LOL!

Here is a pic of his hand today, the swelling is almost gone!