the 18th

I woke up this morning totally exhausted, unrested, and hurting from head to toe. I ended up at the ER again. I will be anxiously awaiting another $4000.00 bill from MTMC. hurray! They did another x-ray and now I am diagnosed me with acute bronchitis. Well, there is nothing cute about it. I have been coughing for about a week now. My throat does not hurt though. I have 3 prescriptions including an inhaler. Also I just had to take some more ibuprofren due to the burning in my back which is the precursor to pleurisy inflammation. I have not been to a doctor, hospital, clinic, taken any meds including aspirin since 1998. This bites!

Angela, one of the folks that has been coming to church, had a death in her family today. Oh my goodness! Talk about getting baptized into pastoral work. Tonight we went to visit with the family at their request. We took some food items and had a good visit. The funeral will be Friday. We had prayer for Angela. She is taking this hard. Her uncle, the one that died, was a foster parent of 75 children and has adopted 4 of them. He was to be 55 next month. He died of melinoma which he was diagnosed with just last month. It's awful. The 4 children are younger than my oldest whom is 11. One of his kids, the only son, wrote a note and said his life sucks. He is 8. How sad! Please pray for this family. They are country and poor. Not that they need prayer for being country. Angela can use alot of prayer as well.