Post Disability Doctor Visit

I'm sorry for not updating before now, but my great nephew went into the hospital the next morning, so I have been rather busy with intercessory prayer. So far so good with him. May God protect him and keep it thus.

As to my doctor visit. First and foremost, NEVER trust Yahoo maps for directions. If we had made a right, gone five miles, made a left and gone three miles, we would have been there in no time. As it was, we made a left and a right and a left and a right, and ended up in a town that had nothing in it remotely like where I was to visit the doctor. From this day forward, I will use Google Maps, or just wing it.

The doctor was very kind, explained why I had to come see him after all the other doctors, asked me a long series of questions, and then made me squat down and stand up. That nearly killed me because it puts so much stress on the lower back. However, he merely nodded and apologized for making me do that. He read the MRI and bone scan reports. Then he sat down and said, I'm not the judge, but you have a serious degenerative disease with an arthritis that is only going to get worse--no titles given to either--and I am recommending in your favor for full disability.

He proceeded to say, there is no cure for this, and there is hardly adequate pain treatment. If you have the spinal blocks and they don't work, you have thrown hundreds of dollars out the window, the 800mg Ibuprofen, or the Arthrotec, will eat a hole in your stomach.

I said, so essentially, it's grin and bear it. He said, Yes but there will be good days, and bad days. He always jokingly suggested I might have a career in weather forecasting. I assured him my hips always knew what the weather was going to do next.

I'm sorry there is so little spiritual content in this post, but I wanted to let you all know what had gone on. The outlook for disability is good, the outlook for my pain is not good. Either way, I have God, and place my faith in God. If I have pain, then I offer than pain as a part of my intercessory prayer.

God bring us all to everlasting life.