Catch Up & Clean Up (continued)

Well, big decisions about the surgery on Duck's arm. He made end up with no use of his hand if the surgery isn't successful. If it's a small area of the nerve that's being affected it MAY be reparable. If it's complete nerve damage the success rate is about 0% recovery with the possibility of loss of the use of his hand. Hmmm... numb fingers vs. worthless hand. I say NO WAY but it's not my decision.

So our washer has been on it's last leg, no, last toe for quite sometime and a friend of ours was selling a fairly new washer & dryer for &75.00... so we bought the. He brought them over last night, hooked em up & started to run it thru a cycle since it hadn't been used in a while & we went up stairs & all had dinner. I went into the basement a few hours later to find the whole basement (minus my closet, thank God) with 3 - 4 inches of standing water on the floor. This is the CLEAN UP part of the update. We had about a dozen people helping us take EVERYTHING out of the basement and 2 shop vacs sucking up GALLONS of water. The standing water is all gone but the carpeting is SOAKED and will take a bit to dry out. I've been saying I needed to clean out the basement but this is a bit ridiculous. Some things were ruined other just slightly damaged and still other are just fine. It's gonna take a while for everything to dry out and for me to sort thru it but I'm excited to see the basement when it's all put back together. A fresh start after living here for 5 years will be good.

AND the washer is fixed. A simple little tube came off & a friend of ours who was helping knew exactly what the problem was and just fixed it in about 10 minutes. So all's well that end's well....

That's it for now.