Tuesday

“There’s far more here than meets the eye.

The things we see now are here today,

gone tomorrow.

But the things we can’t see now will last forever.”

~2 Corinthians 4:18 MSG~

Pray for Chance O’Hern while he is hospitalized this week. Pray for Alice as she stays with him and makes decisions.

Pray for my family as we continue to search for a diagnosis of Momma’s problems.

Don Denton

Tomorrow will be Don’s last day on 5mg. He will start 2.5 on Wednesday and will be completely off of the steroids this weekend. Yes!

Today has been a difficult day in that he is very tired, and more headaches today. Tonight he was not able to eat much at all and he was not able to eat lunch earlier as well.

On a positive note I believe that he is going to make it to this weekend. We then will keep praying that he can make it to surgery week. His admit date at Barnes-Jewish is May 4th. They will do further testing including an MRI to look at comparisons. And then sometime that week they will do the biopsy.

This Thursday is our wedding anniversary. I can’t tell you what this means in so many ways. Last October I did not think I would see this day. Although Don is too weak to go out and celebrate or do the usually things we would do to celebrate our anniversary, it does not matter.

This kind of event in ones life changes everything. Perspective on what is important changes too. Someone asked me today how has this changed me. There is allot to be said about that, but most important is that we have each other. We celebrate how far we have come and the journey together. WE will also celebrate the past, the now and our future together. It is a good thing in the Denton house that we can celebrate and we have so much to be thankful for.

It would be so nice to have some time to get away but I believe that day will come for us.

Don’s doctor up in St. Louis said he has only had one patient not relapse. I believe he is going to have to add Don to that list. Yes!

Just a note about the cat and then important prayer requests.

Funny thing, Saturday night the fire assistant chief called me. I had left a message about getting advice on getting a cat down from the tree.

This man came out to our house. He himself climbed up in our tree and coaxed the cat down with him and it took an hour. I was amazed.

I asked him why would he do this. He said he loves animals. He loves kids more. He lost his first child at a very young age. He now has a little girl. When he heard this was our son’s favorite cat, he could not say no. I just love how God reminds me that knows the number of hairs on our head. He knows everything. God celebrates his creation and he takes delight in us. Nothing is too small to God.

Please pray:

Don”s body will adjust to being off of steroids
and he will not be in allot of pain.

Pray that he will be able to eat.

Pray that he can make it to May 4th admit date.

Pray for Joshua. He knows his daddy is getting weaker. He can see it.

Pray that I will have the wisdom to make the right choices when it comes to questions, etc. with the doctors.

Please pray that I will have the wisdom and discernment to keep persistant with fighting the insurance company, that is how it feels. It in and of itself is a full time job.

One more big thing, Don needs this medication for nausea. The doctor has upped the dosage from 4mg to 8mg. to help him. The insurance company will only pay for 12 per RX. I think that is every 7 days. This makes it so difficult for Don. I have called and the doctors have called and the insurance company refuses to pay.

This makes me so mad and sad. I am furious that an insurance company can get away with dictating course of treatment. And sad that Don knows this an so he holds out on taking his medication. I so want to write a book when all of this is said and done. I don’t understand how this can happen in our country.

I am going to call the insurance company again, tomorrow and insist that they put it in writing to me that they will not cover what Don needs. If I have to I will take this further. The reason they would not pay for him to have more , is that he is not pregnant. Yep. That is correct.
This medication is for nausea and used for women who are pregnant and other uses too. The time it takes to do this kind of legwork, can be overwhelming. So pray for me too. I need it.

On a good note, I can see the end in sight and we are praying that Don can make it to the May 4th date.

I can see where prayer is working in a miraculous way. I have more hope and I believe we are going to find answers and that this will be treatable.

Bless you our family and friends.
Diane

Associational VBS Workshop at FBC, Kentwood tonight at 6:30.