What a Week!

This has been such a week, so many things happening at once. Ever had a week like that? It was a happy yet extremely overwhelming week.

It started out with a prescription issue. Our very first experience since transplant happened with a pharmacy issue. We use a great pharmacy that specializes in specialty medications. Our specialist has always been helpful and I told her about this issue a few months ago. Unfortunately, she is on maternity leave right now and that information stayed with her. Our insurance no longer covers the brand name of one of the anti rejection drugs and we needed the generic. The difference is about $575 dollars, the new specialist couldn't understand why we didn't want to pay that? Anyone have a extra $575 dollars laying around? didn't think so!

It came down to five minutes before his pills were due to be taken. The delivery driver showed up with the medication at our gate. I told him he saved the day and I hope that I made his day. Marty didn't miss a dose and all was well. That ordeal went on from Monday until Wednesday.

Then Wednesday the call came from Debbie. What a blessing to hear from our donor's mother and hopefully provide her some comfort and peace in her trying time. We are so grateful to them and can never thank them enough. It was very emotional.

Last week, My friend Wayne called and asked me to help him plan a 40th birthday party for his wife Staci. Staci is a long time friend of mine and one of my closest sisters of the heart. I was excited to help and we were keeping it simple. That was Thursday and went off with only one small hiccup. The party was a roller skating party and one of her guests broke his leg and ended up having surgery. Needless to say we all felt awful and nobody will forget the night!

Then I helped run the women's fellowship night at our church last night. The director has been sick with pneumonia and asked me to take it over. It went well and we had a lot of fun together. We played this fun new game which is like pictionary and telephone combine. You write a saying on a piece of paper, then pass it to the person next to you. They read the saying and draw a picture, they fold the paper and pass it to the person next to them. That person tries to guess what the saying is and writes down what they think. They pass it to the next person who draws a picture. This goes on until it gets back to the original writer.

It's been a long week. Needless to say, we are playing hooky from church today and vegging on the couch! I am exhausted in the very best of ways. One thing that was in the forefront of my mind this week was Jerry. Without him this week would have have been much worse and because of him our life is good. It's easy to let little things annoy or upset, when that happens, I get more upset with myself. I remember that not too long ago life was tough and now its not.

I remember when Marty was sick, I looked back on the good times and the silly little things that annoyed me before. I was so upset with myself for letting them get to me. I made a promise to myself to not let silly little things bother me on this side of transplant. I had to remind myself of that several times this week.

Life is good and it was a fun week! Can't wait to see what next week brings!