I'm so blessed!
09/02/2005 04:56 p.m.

So, I get to my doctor's appt, and of course, she asks me about the medication I can't afford. I him-haw around about it, and finally tell her it's because I don't have insurance right now and can't afford it. Do you know what she did? Right then and there, she calls the pharmacy, orders a 3 month supply of this medication and PUTS IT ON HER OWN CREDIT CARD!!!! At first, I was horrified! I argued with her, I told her maybe I could get a family member to help me pay for it, I didn't need it that bad....and she wouldn't HEAR of it!! THEN, she puts "no charge" on the office visit billing slip. Then she informs that I have just as much to offer her as she does to me, and offers to allow me to paint some fences at her house to help cover the fees. I was FLOORED, and awestruck, and so grateful for being cared for.

But that's not all. This morning, my auntie shows up at my house and says, "C'mon, Al, let's go get some tires for your car" (because I was still riding around on the spare from the blow out last week and had NO idea what I was going to do about it). So, she hauls me off to Les Schwab, and buys me the 100,000 mile tires, the BEST tires Les Schwab stocks.

How could I have, for even five seconds, felt depressed or discouraged in the face of such amazing kindness and generosity? I see myself sometimes, stuck and tired, and the TRUTH is that up ahead, sometimes a very short distance indeed, there is a blessing (or two.....or more).

And today, prayers and prayers and prayers for the hurricane victims.
I am currently Blessed
I am listening to my amazingly wonderful physician