A Big Scare

I should never say that things aren't too exciting around here anymore. When I do, things just get exciting and not usually in a good way. My grandma gave us quite the scare yesterday. On Friday, my mom talked to the doctor and he said that we are going to need to decide soon how we want to continue my grandma's care. Do we want to continue to be aggressive or do we want to stop everything and consider hospice care. He said that he just doesn't see her pulling out of this. So on Saturday morning my mom went to talk to her and she said that she knew she was reaching the end. When my mom went back in the afternoon, she was so weak she could barely hold her head up. We thought she was gonna fall out of her wheelchair. She said that she wanted to go back to lay down in bed. We were thinking it was just going to be a matter of a few days until she wasn't with us anymore. Luckily it was just a scare, it seems it was the heat that had been getting to her. After laying down in the cooled room, she was much better last night. Not that she's doing all that great, but at least we are not talking in numbers of days now. We still need to decide how we want to continue her care, but at least, it seems, we have some time to decide what to do.

Nothing too exciting....

...going on here this week. It's really hot here. I think it's supposed to be 103* today. That's pretty icky. So haven't been doing too much, just swimming, working, and being lazy when I'm not working. Anyway nothing new to post...the status quo is being maintained. That's the update for now. :)

Sometimes you need a man around

I'm painting again. Don't even get me started, I have no idea why I do this. I decided that I was gonna paint my bedroom, and since I really didn't like the blue in my bathroom I thought well why not paint that too. So I started in the bathroom. I wanted a color like the color of sand to go with the blue that's already in there. One coat in and the color is way more peachy than I like, hopefully it turns more brown as it dries.
What my post is really about though is my bedroom... I was moving some stuff around the bedroom and wishing I had a big strong boy to help me move the furniture, when I saw a lizard! Yes, a LIZARD, in my BEDROOM!. I had no idea how it got there, but there it was. So there we were, staring each other down, both of us too scared to move. So I directed my cat at the lizard and hoped that she'd get it, but I don't think she did. So now I have a lizard in my bedroom, and now I'm too afraid to move the furniture for fear that when I do, this little guy is gonna come running out. The worse fear though is that he won't run out, and he'll come out at night and climb into bed with me. These are the times when I wish I had a boy living here...for moving heavy things, and pest control.


Update as of 730pm....My cat got the lizard!!! Yay, now I don't have to worry about him crawling into bed with me tonight. I have to dispose of the corpse, but I'll take that anyday. I guess all that training in pouncing at my feet really paid off!

Scary...

I do all of my banking online, so I was going online the other day and my credit card account was blocked. It said there was some kind of fraud and I had to go to this website and see what was going on. So turns out someone stole my credit card number. Not the card itself, just the number. The card is still in my wallet. The truly scary thing, I hadn't used this card in probably 6 months. So how did someone get the number? And they used it at McDonald's, so they had to have made a card with the number, because, as far as I know, you can't buy stuff at McDonalds online. It's so scary what people can do these days. Luckily the bank was on top of it and as soon as they saw that charge they put a hold on the account and I'm getting the money refunded to me, but seriously you just never know. Some advice I was told, when shopping with your ATM card, choose the credit option, it still comes out of your checking account, but you sign instead of entering your PIN number. Just one more way to protect your PIN.

Great news!

So we finally got some really good news the other day. My grandma is on this special medication for the anemia. It is a shot that she gets 3 times a week. And it's super expensive. Without insurance the cost is $2400 a month! With insurance her co-pay is $600 a month. No one can pay that, let alone my grandparents who are on social security. Then we found out that there is a gap in insurance. Apparently there is a cap to what medicare will pay, and she has reached that cap. So they were going to have to pay all the cost of the medicine, up until they paid $4300 out of their pockets. They had already paid $1100 in copays so this left $3200 left to be paid this year.
Well we found out that they don't have to pay up to his amount. I'm not really sure exactly how it works, but they only have to pay up to $1600 out of pocket. So that's only $500 more. Then everything will be covered at 95%. That means the medicine will only cost $120 a month! Much more do-able.
We thought this was good enough news, but then we got some more! We had submitted her information to a prescription assistance program that will help with medical costs. And we just found out that she got approved! They will re-imburse her up to $1200 a month for medical costs. So they aren't going to have to pay for any medical costs! Hallelujah! We are so thankful for this blessing! We had been praying for something like this, and the Lord has blessed us. God is so good!

Harvest Crusade 2009

We went to the Harvest Crusade last night at Anaheim Stadium. It was the 20th Southern CA Crusade and so they had a special night planned. We got there early, before the gates opened, and it was already crowded. It ended up being standing room only, 50,000 people got in to the stadium and 5,000 were turned away! And boy did they miss a great show. Chris Tomlin performed, Greg Laurie had a great message, and there were fireworks! Because it was the 20th year, after the alter call (where 4,500 people came forward to change their lives) Chris had a mini concert and there was a 15 minute firework show. Check out the videos I found, the sound quality sucks, but you get the idea. Let me tell you, 50,000 people singing How Great is Our God is an AWESOME thing. It was an amazing night! Go here for the official webcast of the night. (Friday and Saturday nights webcasts are there too.)

Visiting Chloe

We went to Utah this weekend to see my niece, ok we went to see my bro and sis in law too, but mostly my niece. My bro and sis in law had to work Thursday and Friday so they left us home alone with the baby. We had so much fun, she is such a perfect baby. So content and happy all the time. She's talking like crazy now. Its funny how much they change just in the month since we had last seen her. She's 5 months old now, and getting so big. Here's some pics from the trip...

Chatting with her Grammie

All dressed up for the fair. (I got her this outfit.)

Relaxing on Chloe Island

I put this teeny tiny hair clip in her hair. It was so cute!


She wakes up so happy, just lays in her crib and talks to herself. It's so sweet!