Fast forward a year

Or fast forward a year and a half.....

Will share pictures , but In the next post, I get distracted if I stop to find the photos...

Ok, will pick up from last post.....

We had just bought our lot here in Hernando Beach, Florida.  And were living in our rv...  tried to stay on the lot, but there are ordinances that we could not until we were under construction....  so we had to find a rv park for the winter....  not easy to do, because that is the full time....  snowbirds come in, but we found one, Topics RV Park, had to move 3 times in park, but they were vey nice.

Found our home....  we bought a modular home... it is NOT a mobile home, modular means it was built in a factory....  it is stronger than a stick built home but was not out in the rain while being built.

Our lot had a concrete slab on it, which we had hoped to reuse, but nope even though the dimensions worked, county said it had sat too long.... so had to get that removed....

Then they were finally able to build the concrete blocks that the house would be set on... they are 14 feet in the air....  so the house had to be brought in on 3 huge trucks and 2 cranes lifted it up in the air to the pilings....   we met a lot of our neighbors during this process because it is such a rare happening.....  

But at least then we were able to move our rv back to the lot, and it was fun watching it.....
got to move in April...   so we had sold most of our furniture, so I enjoyed buying new....

Then came cleaning up the ground....  Larry had found a great new product of plastic grids, and since we were trying to be low future upkeep, we ordered it, but first laid down ground cover.... I am talking about on 80% of our lot... and since Larry cant do much work... i am getting really fit....

Finally sold the house in Little Rock... sold too cheap, but at that point we just wanted to be done..

Then got 2 huge dump truck loads of limestone rock, some small, some boulders....  and finally got them all placed.....

Then came plants, yep I did all but the 2 trees....

In July, Larry slipped and fell, ended up in hospital for 5 nights, and a month of iv antibiotics.... yes, I learned to do those...  3 each day, 2 were by iv push, one was a bag....but all is ok. Very scary but I did it.

Settled in, learning to relax, but then last week he had to have the cord changed between his driveline And his controller, he had gotten a split in it....

Enjoying each day in our vacation retirement home...  Larry is doing ok, tires easy, but we work around it....  he usually goes shopping with me, and we go out each day to sit in the yard.
he is not heart transplant eligible because he would also need kidneys transplanted... Dr Mackie said he just did not think he could survive,  but he has 1 year of age eligibility if his kidneys miraculously get better....

Still have the rv, but are beginning to get It all emptied out so we can sell it.  We would like to get a small one but that will be seen....  we just know we cannot do the 40’ anymore....  i dont want to drive, Larry should not be driving, and we will never do long distances again anyway.  Need to stay closer to lvad hospitals...  but as another test in this process, I sold my jeep wrangler... that was tough because I so loved my jeep, but i bought a big girl car, Mazda cx5....  love it, sporty but nice ride... NOT towable by rv... so that was a huge step in our future.

I cannot say enough great things about our new LVAD team... they are awesome.  We are pleased with receiving such a great new team as we were missing our other team in Arkansas...

Life is still good for me, after 3 years of heart LVAD I hope it is for Larry...

changes, adjustments, flexibility, missing the 2 grands in Arkansas, but getting to know the 3 grands here... downsizing, simplifying, finding I had out strength to go with inner strength...  meeting new people, Buying new things that I had just sold...  lol yep sold some of what I should have kept.

I would do it all again to get to where we are....  together with my love, my best friend, my husband, Larry Ziemski, for another day, another week, or hopefully many more years....