Monday Goings-on..a day late

I was going to blog last night, but was just plain too tired after I finished entering things into the ebay TurboLister. So I went to bed. Guess I needed it. Woke up once, but then didn't wake up again till around 8 this morning!

Danny is always up and down through the night now. He does rest, though, in the daytime. He said this morning he feels lazy going back to bed in the middle of the morning. I told him not to worry about it. With radiation treatments, he needs to rest when he feels like it so his healthy cells can heal. It takes a lot out of the body for healing.

Yesterday was quite a day. We left just after lunch to get two new tires on the van. PTL! My sister gave us money for tires. The back ones are *ok* for right now, though they won't last long with all this going back and forth to town for treatments. But the front ones were dangerously thin.

As we were going, our 18yo daughter called and said her car quit in town. Then she called again and said our 19yo son was at his work with 2 flat tires. He got off at 5 PM, so we'd decided we'd have to wait a little while tending to his problems. We went to the tire shop and got the tires put on. Then headed to town where daughter was waiting.

We got there and sure enough, her car would start but it wouldn't stay running. So we loaded up her and her things and took her with us to the radiation appointment. Then we headed to Walmart to pick up a couple of things including a gas jug and fuel treatment. See, along the way we decided she was probably just out of gas, even though her guage said nearly 1/4 tank.

Got back to her car, put in the gas and fuel treatment, and after just a couple of tries her car started right up and kept running. She's never gone that low on gas so didn't know it would run out before it hit the big "E". Thankfully, she was parked at a local Waffle House. She'd managed to get the car in there before it quit entirely.

Then, with her all taken care of, we headed to son's work. By that time he was already off work but was waiting for us. We put Fix-a-Flat in his tires, hooked up the little compressor (it plugs into the cigarette lighter), and aired his tires up. He made it home just fine then.

When we got home, I fixed baked potatoes in the microwave, broccoli and cheese sauce to go over them, fresh sliced tomatoes, and a mixed greens salad. We were very ready for supper after such a day!

We thought Danny was supposed to see the chemo doctor yesterday. She's in the same building as the radiation doctor. Well, her "bulldog" came out and told us we didn't have an appointment, that he doesn't start chemo Tuesday, and that we have to have financing FIRST before anything can be done.

I tried to be nice. Really. Really. But the words, "So what do cancer patients with no income and no insurance do? Just go home and die??" Sorry. Uncalled for, I know, but the doctor had actually said we should see her on Monday and that she would be arranging for Danny to have cancer treatments at the hospital on Tuesday. However, this lady was adamant. No. The chemo doctor isn't actually a part of CARTI - she just rents part of the building. The hospital is a private one and offers no such thing for cancer patients. We have to go to Little Rock to UAMS for that. However, she would contact them and they would call us this week to set it all up.

See, UAMS gets grants and aid to treat uninsured persons. The only problem is it's a 40 mile drive one way for us. We aren't even sure the van will make it one round trip. If we break down, we'll be away from people who can help us. I suppose all we can do is try it, though. In the meantime, we'll apply for Medicaid and if it goes through we may be able to change and have treatments at the hospital here. They take Medicaid.

We'll go early today and pick up paperwork from various doctors, go to the Human Services office, and see what we can do. We'd have gone earlier but it seems like so much other stuff is going on every day that Danny runs out of steam before we can get everything done.

There's just so much to think about and it's all new territory for me. I've got an accordian pocket file folder here that one of the kids used for homeschool papers. I'll be collecting everything I can to go in it so I'll have important papers with me whenever we visit various government agencies. I've put a few things in it already. I'll finish adding to it this morning and it will become affixed to my arm every time we leave the house. That way I'll have what I need with me, and I'll have a place to put new things as I get them.

This morning's Spurgeon devotional was perfect for us, so I'm sharing it here. Maybe it will help others, too:

"Wait on the Lord." --Psalm 27:14

It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or rush forward in presumption? No, but simply wait. Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God, and spread the case before Him; tell Him your difficulty, and plead His promise of aid. In dilemmas between one duty and another, it is sweet to be humble as a child, and wait with simplicity of soul upon the Lord. It is sure to be well with us when we feel and know our own folly, and are heartily willing to be guided by the will of God. But wait in faith. Express your unstaggering confidence in Him; for unfaithful, untrusting waiting, is but an insult to the Lord. Believe that if He keep you tarrying even till midnight, yet He will come at the right time; the vision shall come and shall not tarry. Wait in quiet patience, not rebelling because you are under the affliction, but blessing your God for it. Never murmur against the second cause, as the children of Israel did against Moses; never wish you could go back to the world again, but accept the case as it is, and put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any self-will, into the hand of your covenant God, saying, "Now, Lord, not my will, but Thine be done. I know not what to do; I am brought to extremities, but I will wait until Thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back my foes. I will wait, if Thou keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed upon Thee alone, O God, and my spirit waiteth for Thee in the full conviction that Thou wilt yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower."