“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me,
for I am gentle and lowly in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls.
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
~Matthew 1:29-30~
Update on Mrs. Faye Price
Don is home after a very long day….Don being released from the hospital this morning but not getting to leave until around 7:30pm this evening, ugh! We are home….Yeah! and tired.
We are so very very glad that Don is home. He is very tired and weaker of course. He has taken a few steps back, but hopefully not for long.
Today started with good news at the homefront here, the dishwasher manufacture is going to replace our kitchen floor for us. There was damage from the leaking and small fire that we had from the “dishwasher recall”. So we are excited that we will have a new kitchen floor sometime in the future. We are not at a place where we can have someone come in and work in our kitchen now. Life is too busy these days.
The even better news is that this hospital stay of six days was about a separate illness and not a relapse.
WE are going to have to be much more careful about doctor visits and physical therapy. Don may have to wear a mask and gloves. when out, especially doctor appts. He will need to be treated like a “cancer” patient, because he is still on steroids and his body is very compromised.
We continue to learn more about what we need to do.
Pray for us, we are still struggling with the insurance company. I have spoken to them and they claim not to have approved a “in network gap exception” for Don at Mayo. They told me that they don’t have a record of approving this. Although when I give them name of person, date and time, they still are claiming I am wrong. I spent almost 3 hours on the phone between Mayo and our insurance company working at trying to get this resolved. Unfortunately I will need to file an appeal. WE have wonderful advocates trying to help us from the church and school and I am so grateful for their advice. I could not do this without them.
We saw neurologist about 6pm this evening and she is going to help us along with our ID doctor to get Don the help he needs for the severe vertigo. It may take a few weeks, but we are hopeful.
Your cards and letters and encouragement are amazing words of hope and love. WE continue to be strengthened by your prayers and by the words from scripture and encouragement. Don and I are so blessed by you all. I have found myself again at this place where I did not think I could do one more thing. I have been so discouraged and God has used you to encourage Don and I.
You can’t begin to know what this has meant to us.
This time of illness for Don has been a test of my faith, not understanding why. My precious husband who is a man that knows God and seeks to know God in a deeper way, who has been a model for me and our son. In a way that is full of grace and patience. God uses this man to show me unconditional love. He is the one that has this quiet trusting faith.
I continue to come to this place of having to trust even when I don’t understand. If we never have answers as to why, it is OK. Hard stuff happens in life, very hard stuff. It could be allot worse. I get that. I see others who suffer, really suffer. God has been a constant even when I am at my weakest. Even when I have been weary and not wanting to talk to God about this. God has never left.
I am so thankful that is not up to me to get it all right and I can rest in that truth. Christ in me the Hope of Glory. I have understood this truth for sometime now. And as I continue to grow in Christ I can see how “Resting” in what I can’t see is so important. It does not make the pain easier, it does not make the grieving easier, but there is comfort in Knowing that my God has not left and never will.
Well it is late and I have a mound of clothes to fold. But the good news is my two favorite guys are here at home. I am a tired happy camper.
God bless you our friends and family,
Diane
Baptist Press
February 10, 2009
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