The Tiles are coming, the Tiles are coming!!!

Wow. What a season of up and downs. I've been trying to get a set of balance friendly playground tiles for Doug for several months now. There's been a company willing to help, and me willing to install it. But there has been roadblock after roadblock after roadblock. First, every single agency that wanted to help in terms of sorting out the charitable status of things hit a Revenue Canada wall. Then, once that was surmounted, there was the shipping costs. Several hopeful leads led to nothing. Finally, a shipper has stepped up and offered to help out. I don't even know who they are yet, but they've offered to ship the entire pallet for only $200. And thanks to some of my other shipping quests, I even have a spot to ship them too with a forklift!

Door after door after door have been slamming in our faces on this since we began. It seems, however, that everytime one closes, eventually another opens. I don't know if I'm being taught patience or persistence. The tiles are loaded on a pallet at the factory, and just waiting for the shipper to pick them up. They could be here as early as the end of next week. This is an answer to many a prayer.

I'm getting a little freaked out over the job of installing them now. It has always been at the bottom of the list. First priority was to get them here. Then I was going to worry about how the heck I was going to get them in. I'm starting to worry. :)

I'm going to do what any computer geek would do in a case like this. I'm going to build a website listing all the things that need to happen. I'll publish a link to it as soon as I'm done. Watch this space. If you feel like you want to help let me know.

Scars

Doug's bandages have come off. They actually came off last week, but I've been so busy lately that blogging hasn't been high on the list.

Doug has a 5cm incision on his leg. This was bandaged under some mysterious type of cellophanish bandage with some traditional gauze on top. Our instructions were very clear - leave the underlying bandage on until it falls off. The closer we followed the instructions, the less of a scar it was to leave.

We were very careful about making sure that this bandage stayed on as long as possible. It lasted until last week, when it started to peel off. The wound underneath has healed completely (Yay!) and what is left is a thin scar. We are dressing this with steri-strips underneath a bandage for the next couple of months. This is to keep the skin held together to reduce the pulling apart of the scar, and to keep it as narrow a scar as possible.

We were much relieved to see that the incision has healed so well. Thanks for all your prayers on this.