Seems I've managed to find a way to make life more complicated for a while... necessary though it may be. We've begun the process of pretty much totally rearranging the house. Glen needs to move downstairs.. falling is one thing.. the potential of him falling on the stairs something else entirely! The plan is to turn what has been our dining room back into a family room, and turn the living room into a room for Glen.. he'll have plenty of room to move around, even if he eventually ends up in a wheel chair. Also to that end, we would only have to have one ramp installed to make the entire downstairs accessible.

Step one is having the dining room painted. Glen and Kevin painted the living room a couple of years ago and it still looks nice. But the kitchen/family room area were looking all of their 25 years. We've had a painting crew in here the past two days and it looks like there's at least one more day of work to do. We needed to vacate the house this morning since our "hidey hole" has been the living room and they needed to paint the ceiling in there. Actually it lead to a lovely outing.. Glen, Kevin, me and the two dogs... breakfast at Starbucks, a trip to the dog park so the dogs could run, a stop at the pet store for dog food. It's now 2 in the afternoon and Glen, Kevin, Buffy and Baron are all passed out! Yay! Next is new laminate flooring (looks great but should hold up to 8 big dog feet much better than hardwood!) and then furniture rearrangement. We also had a chimney sweep out, so the fireplace is all inspected and ready for use! Once the room is done, I'll try to post some pictures.

Getting the prep work done, keeping track of Glen, keeping track of the dogs.. it's been crazy busy! But I do believe the finished products will be well worth it. There is also a new plasma tv in our future, and home theater speakers. Much of this work is possible because of the money I inherited from my Mom.. while I'd rather have her back, I do appreciate that she made this possible for us!

Oh, and in the middle of this I had more disability paperwork, and had to start paperwork for the transition from short term disability and California state disability to Social Security and long term disability. I swear I've killed at least 2 forests since Glen got sick!

Health wise, Glen's cough is more constant, energy level is lower, speech harder to understand. We won't talk about the teeth grinding except to say I may buy stock in an ear-plug company! E-mailed Dr North, and we will see him sometime in the next week or so just to see what's up. Unless Glen starts running a fever, nothing is really an emergency but just signs of the inevitable progression of the disease.