Sunday, October 30, 2005

do you want the good news or the bad news?

...the good news is that after months of correspondence, letters from doctors, years of prior pain and many complaints about health insurance; i received a letter from my insurance company stating that they are going to cover my breast reduction surgery. about a year ago, we decided that i would proceed with the surgery even if i was denied benefits from our insurance company. although i have worked hard over the last few months to take the right steps to complete the insurance process, i am happy and yet in shock and have only to wait to see the check in the mail.

...the bad news is that i have just finished getting my kids school work into folders so that they have something to do when grandma is taking care of them tomorrow. i will be in phoenix, sitting next to my dad at good samaritan hospital, while we wait for my mother to have a biopsy on a mass that has developed in her lungs. she has been seeing a lung specialist for weeks and not responding to treatment for what the doctors think is pneumonia. her body is weak and needing oxygen this last week. we will have to wait a few days to get a diagnosis from the radiologist, so please pray along with our family for her health and strength.