Win's Eye Balls Get Scraped

So I watched Win have his eye ball scraped off this week.
He went in on Monday for the PKU procedure (similar to LASIK laser eye surgery but instead of cutting a flap of your cornea off, lasering a new eye shape and then putting the flap back in place they just plain scrape off the flap, laser the eye and then let your body regrow the flap over the following week). He didn't qualify for LASIK because of stigmatisms in both eyes, but the results are the same, just a tougher recovery.
We went into the waiting room and while reading magazines a woman came around offering freshly baked cookies- a nice touch. Then she came around again. and then again. I was starting to get shaky on sugar and anxiety so I had to turn down the wonderful things but Win had no such problems, he was eating warm cookies to the minute he went into surgery. He didn't seem to share my nervousness over the coming procedure at all. Mind you it might have been the Valium kicking in. I was a wreck and so when they led him into the operating room and I was able to sit right in front of a large glass window and watch the procedure with a TV screen showing his eye ball magnified I was not sure that I had the stomach.
It only went for 5 minutes or so all up, and probably only 2 minutes for each eye, the laser part was a non event entirely, although Win did say that he could smell his own burning eye ball flesh.
I think the worst part was seeing the metal eye clamps and the sticky tape being ripped off his eyelashes at the end (they use tape to hold the eyelashes out of the way).
Win got up and walked out of there a moment later and he said that he could see better than when he used to where glasses. That was a good sign!
His vision was supposed to get worse on day 2 as the cells started to heal over the eye. Win was pretty dopey from the Valium and I drove him home to sleep for the rest of the day.
I then went to the Real Estate Agency to pick up the keys to our new house. The secretary said "Oh no, they have already been picked up by your family".
Well, I tell you, the family is efficient here! So I got to our new house and there was Ida Mae and Crystal with all my kids stocking the pantry and bathrooms with hand soap, toilet paper, paper plates and cups and food. Then they got to work cleaning all the cupboards, fridge and every where else that needed cleaning.
They are so quick to help out, even when they have a million things going on in their own family.

That evening Charlotte and Toby rang to say that they could help move the couches that we had stored at Ida Mae's house. It took a lot of heavy lifting and we discovered that the sectional sofa we had bought would not fit through the basement stair doorway (after we had already carted one section down and had the second piece perched on the stair rail!). It was an enormous effort to get the over sized piece back up the stairs once we worked out that it would not fit, and there was not a word of complaint from any of them!! Fortunately Costco has a good returns policy on things!

The next day Win had another appointment for his eyes and so Crystal and Ida Mae took care of the kids and school pick ups while we drove the 1 hr trip to Sandy for Win's eyes.
They told Win that he was healing unusually fast (quite the talent.... that's why I married him!) and all was going great. His eye sight was at 20/25 which is the legal requirement for driving. We then spent the afternoon buying mattresses and making trips back to the new house.
Win has to take drops every few hours in his eyes and he wears sunglasses most of the day because he has light sensitivity. At night he wears these really funny plastic eye goggle/eye patches that have to be taped to his face. Its like looking at Louey the Fly because they have ventilation holes. The are to stop him from rubbing his eyes in the night and dislodging some freshly grown eye ball I suppose.

Today we spent the day painting. Well, I painted while Win tried to keep the kids out of the paint. The house had a fairly neutral colour scheme; oatmeal coloured carpet, white tiles,oatmeal white walls and one Utah brown feature wall in the main living room. I decided that I really wanted to add a little colour before we moved all the furniture in.
We are planning to complete the look soon with timber floors in the living area and dining room, I would like to take up the tiled area too but it would be a time consuming task that may be above my skill level.
I will post photos as soon as I can. I bought seven sample pots of paint before I settled on the right colour. Sample pots are the only way to paint, it is amazing how much variation there is when the paint goes on the wall. The sample colour swatches all looked nearly identical on the card but they were completely different on a large area.

While we have been working at the new house the neighbours dropped by to meet us. One one side we have a lovely older couple who work in the temple and helped us work out many of the electrical things in the house like the garage door opener and the thermostat... there house is almost the same as ours so they know the answer to most things we ask!
The neighbours on the other side are a lovely family about our age who moved in 6months ago. They have 3 small kids and they bought valentines day cookies to welcome us to the neighbourhood.
We are really excited about the neighbourhood after meeting them.