Amy's 'momentary trouble'

Not such a good day today. I know that I will have them, bad days that is and I’m sure the kids will as well…I just wish it didn’t have to hurt so badly. I’ll be in the middle of something whether at home or at work and it just comes on me, no rhyme or reason.

I’ve been waiting for confirmation from the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Pizza Huts to reveal what was raised on November 16th and I feel confident that we have a firm figure now, between the Pizza Huts and Dairy Queen here is Baraboo, approximately $4750.00 were raised from sales. In addition, the Pizza Huts in Baraboo, Dairy Queen and Walnut Hill Bible church all had donation jars set out and these raised about $1770.00, so all together, there was about $6520.00 raised to help offset Amy’s medical expenses. To put this in perspective, I looked back at some of the insurance statements that came to us while Amy was going through the combo Radiation/Chemo treatments this past spring, one of these visits billed out at a little over $6000 and she went 5 days a week for 6 weeks. To do the quick math, that’s $180,000; that doesn’t include the cost of three stent replacements, the 7 ½ hour surgery, two hospital says of a week plus each, at least 10 ER visits, countless surgical and oncology clinic visits, 10 or so CT Scans, 3 or 4 MRI’s, post surgical chemo or the cost of her many many medications. Please don’t misunderstand, I’m not complaining or even whining, if you’ve read the BLOG at all you’d know that I am very open. God has brought me here thus far, to stop trusting Him now when I need Him the most, would be the ultimate in foolishness. However, I’m telling you this because as the new year dawns, I know there will be at least one more fundraiser and I don’t want those of you who have been so generous to my family to scratch your heads and wonder what’s going on. This other fundraiser is being planned as a ‘tail-gate’ party and silent auction. It will be held here in Baraboo at the Baraboo Arts Center and we’re looking at the afternoon of Super Bowl Sunday (before the actual game). I have some very capable people helping coordinate this and it looks like we should be able to get some very nice packages and items together for this event. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend! For those of you who live farther away and can not attend, but would like to participate, I will be listing the auction items on-line and I’ll cover how this bidding will be handled at a later date. More details for this event will be forthcoming.

For the love of Amy - V