At My Place: More Great Helps!

If you have been praying for me, I do thank you heartily. I have reached the point this morning where I don't need my cane for every step I take, nor do I use my heating pad. (In fact, I think my itchy skin was due to that pad's heat.)

This alone is a great blessing! And an encourage- ment!

I do recall that the first time I had such a fracture, in 2007, after Dad died, I managed to hobble about and prepare for the estate auction sale.

A few weeks later, when I'd been able to get a loan to buy this wee house, (known in this neighbourhood as a as a druggie house), I came into the city daily just to clean and purify the house. I didn't dare even sleep here until I'd cleaned at least 10 days.

But then, that was 18 years ago. (Is healing slower when you get older?)

I have a Christian woman chiropractor who gave me a good deal about 3 years ago. If I would agree to a monthly apt. she would give me a reduced rate. That appointment was due on the 12th, but I called and asked if it could be moved up a day or two.

The receptionist suggested that she have Dr. Kayla phone a clinic for x-rays first, and then on Friday she would know what she was dealing with in my back. - I agreed and had a friend drive me for the x-ray apt. and the one with Dr. Kayla.

I'm hoping now, if the weather holds out, that I can drive myself this Friday for that free appointment.

We've had some great conversations about spiritual things, but dear Dr. Kayla did something I've never experienced before. When she finished working on me at my last appointment, two weeks ago. She crouched before me, took my hands and asked if she could pray for me. I was so touched!

She said she wanted me to come back in 2 weeks, and there would be no charge for that visit. So I expect to see her again this week, Friday.

(Incidentally, she is the only doctor I've had the last few years, as my Christian doctor retired at the start of Covid and I haven't been able to get another one.

Any visits to Emergency have been quite useless; hours of waiting and then all they do is give me a Rx for painkillers - and advised to wait 8 weeks. This is my 4th fracture in the spine, so I know this tune).

I've discovered that I can have an occasional bath (clinging to the Saska-pole my Dad had made for his bathtub). I also had the courage to go downstairs on Thurs. last week thumping my laundry hamper down the steps and I managed to do my laundry and hang it up on the dryer rack until the end of the day.

I have been afraid to drive anywhere so far, fearing that my reflexes may be too slow, but I may try to drive to my apt with Dr. Kayla on Friday. (This might depend on the weather).

Let's see...I've told you about the church sending a couple with 17 containers of meals. Some have 4 servings in them!

Also, my niece, Jalise had promised back in April that she and her husband would come one Saturday for the suite of desks that my sister Elsie had built for herself when still in Nipawin, (thinking she would start a bookkeeping business in her home, but she took an aptitude test and discovered she would make a great Health Inspector, so she packed up her kids and moved to BC. (Elsie offered me her new office suite of desks, which Dad drove up to fetch). I've used it ever since.

In April, when Elsie was on the phone with me she mentioned that Jalise wished she could have that desk suite now, that her husband and she have moved to Edmonton.

This desk suite is very handsome, sturdy, etc., but doesn't have enough drawers to suit me, so I've been buying up plastic bins and storing stuff on top of the credenza as I can.

In Hague, I'd also had a desk built for me, to fit in the long narrow room I had in my parents' basement. However, it is now in this basement where it just collects clutter and does me no good. Elsie's credenza has about 8 filing drawers worth of space in the 4 wide drawers, while my desk downstairs has 10-12 drawers. (Sigh!)

Jalise had lost the measurements I'd send her so they came in their car Saturday. (They'd had trouble borrowing or renting a truck). But when they took a close look Saturday, they saw that they definitely need to come with a TRUCK!

They were able to take away Elsie's trunk, some bins and boxes of her stuff, and... oh yes, they stopped at Costco and bought a ready-cooked chicken for our lunch.

I'd mentioned on the phone that I go through an egg and an apple every morning, and I was running out... so they bought me 3 doz. eggs, and a large bag of apples. Whooppee!

On Saturday evening a Chinese couple (leaders in our ESL class), brought more food, including some delightful rolls in delicate flaky pastry. They just need to be warmed in the oven for 5-10 minutes.

God is Good, all the time! All the time, God is GOOD!

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