Hello on Sunday!

Well, I didn't make it to church today, but I enjoyed the services via internet! What a blessing that is! This a.m. we had a wonderful service, and there was no preaching, and I sat in my living room with tears running down my face, enjoying the service, even though I couldn't be there.

Missie has been so sick. She thought she was feeling better and then yesterday afternoon started getting feverish again, and is very weak. She has a lot of drainage in her throat, that goes along with this head cold. Junior and Preston went to church tonight, and I watched it on the internet. I could see Preston sitting in his pew rocking, it was so neat! Our pastor preached a wonderful sermon. Tues. night we start revival, through next Sunday. I plan to attend this as many nights as possible. The teen church sang tonight, and Missie and I both hated that she was not there for that. But there will be another time.

Well, since the cymbalta was so expensive, we decided to try paxil again, but it didn't do well. Preston started getting irritable, and we just had to go and buy 17 more pills to do us until next Friday. It was $75. We will have to buy 21 pills/week until they arrive at the free clinic. That will probably be about $100 a week. I don't know how we will do it, but God does. God is able to speed the delivery of this medication up, and have it arrive much sooner at the clinic, or speed up the medicaid! Something has to give in this area!

I have been working on some baskets with handmade cards in them to donate to our school for the silent auction. I hope they sell good for the school. We are having a soup supper, and silent auction on November 6th. We are hoping to do well, and raise lots of money for our school.

Hope you all had a wonderful Lord's day!

You won't believe it!

You won't believe what I am going to tell you! So fasten your seat belts and hang tight for I have some astonishing news!

Missie received her medicaid card today! She is now on medicaid. But Preston is not; and it will take a while for him. Does that make sense? Don't they realize a disabled person NEEDS it quickly??? I just couldn't believe it when I got the card for Missie in today's mail! I am thankful she has it, for now we can get help for her arthritis, unless it is hard to find a rhematologist who takes it. That is the next step to find a family dr. first who can refer us to a specialist.

Missie is sick again with cold, fever, etc. She has laid around all day. I walked and got her paces and she has worked some in them. It is like she has a relapse now. I hope she gets better soon. Several people around here have this cold or flu.
So far Preston has not gotten this. Hopefully he won't.

Please keep praying for Preston's medicaid to come through and/or the meds. he needs arrives quicker than usual. God is able to speed up this process.

Bedtime, so will go for now.

What a week!

It has been quite a week, but we are getting things moving concerning Preston's medicaid and medications! When the caseworker put in all the information for regular medicaid for Preston, it came up that they wanted to see about disability medicaid for him, so that is the route we are going. She has to send paperwork to SC to his doctors, so that could take a couple of weeks. Never again will I take medicaid for granted!!!

Yesterday Junior took Preston to the Open Door Clinic - free clinic - and they saw the nurse practitioner and she couldn't believe his history! It is a lot to comprehend when you hear it for the first time. He truly is our miracle son! He is so cute because he doesn't want to be called a "boy" anymore, but a "man." I told him he is not a girl, so he is a boy, LOL. He thinks it is something wonderful that he is a 20 yr. old man now! It is truly a miracle that we have him, and that is he sooo sweet. God has been so good.

Well, anyhow, the clinic got things moving and gave him 2 bottles of medication that he takes, and some samples of a 3rd. We temporarily put him on paxil which he was on before cymbalta (for depression) until we can get the cymbalta in. It is $485 a bottle. Today I had to go back to the clinic and sign all the papers. Then she told me it would take 3-5 weeks for the meds. to get here. We are ok for a couple of weeks. Our pastor told me to let him know if we needed help financially to buy some before the free meds. arrive as there are people who would be more than happy to help us buy it! What an awesome pastor we have. Our church here has really stood behind us through all of this and prayed. It means so much to us.

I guess Missie will be the next one to go to Open Door and see if we can get her on some arthritis medication. She did get some better, but tonight is in quite a bit of pain and didn't get to prayermeeting.

The boss told the guys where Jr. works that they could start working some overtime, but there isn't enough to do for them to work much overtime. But we are so thankful he has a job, and in a month he will get insurance on himself which they pay! I may go to the clinic too for my meds, we will see how much the insurance will cost to put me on it. He hopes to get a raise then too.

So things are somewhat better, as we have meds. for a couple more weeks. And the Lord is able to speed up the medicaid process and also the arrival of the medications to the clinic. God is in control!

So that is the latest chapter in the lives of the Watsons!

Awesome Sunday!

It was an awesome day today, on the Lord's Day.

Junior and I attended church this a.m. as Missie has a cold and had a headache.
Bro. Mowery preached a wonderful message and some went to the alter.
This evening we had another great service, and then after church we had Travis and Jody Johnson and their family over for chili! We had a good time of fellowship.
Our church is praying for us concerning Preston's medication. It has caused me much anxiety wondering what we will do if the clinic does not give us the meds. Bro. Mowery preached tonight on faith; I needed that sermon. I don't have the faith I should have. I need the Lord's help. Only God can work this all out. I will be so glad when Tuesday is over and we know something. Not knowing is harder than knowing, I think.

We might get to go to my mom's for Thanksgiving! She and my stepdad want to pay our way for us to go up. We will be there about 1 1/2 days but that will be better not seeing them at all this year. I haven't seen my mom since August of 2007. I would love to go and see them, if the weather is ok. If there are snowstorms, we won't go. It is in the Lord's hands.

'Night all!

Awesome church family

We left an awesome church family in Easley, SC and moved to IN and found out they are awesome as well. I requested prayer Wed. night about Preston's medication and not having medicaid, and they rallied to help us. We ended up getting a big food pounding and over $100 in cash. Isn't that amazing? I have more food than I do cabinets now! Thank you all soooo much!

Wed. p.m. we had a wonderful prayer meeting. God came and it was such a wonderful time of prayer for needs. I was so discouraged over this medication. We bought 17 pills for Preston and it cost $85. Another of his expensive medication is running out this week. But we go to the clinic on Tues. and will see what they can do to help us. Please pray they can give him the meds. until we get medicaid. Anyhow, Bro. Steve Gardner handed out paper at the prayer meeting and people gave a lot of requests and we wrote a lot of them down so we could use the list in our devotions. He was so passionate about each request; it was so refreshing! Then Bro. Mowery asked if anyone wanted to pray at the altar for our needs; and many went up front and prayed. It was close to 9 p.m. before we got out of the service. But it was so worth it.

Just had to brag on our new church and how they have helped us. Jody Johnson told me that the Lord didn't bring us up here to forsake us now! How true that is. Missie is doing so well and loving school. I know it was God's will so we just have to trust Him!

Back already!

I am back already. I called the free clinic today, "Open Door" Clinic and Preston has an appt. a week from today. So I hope they can help with the medication until he gets medicaid.

It is cool here today; Preston went out and sat a while. I am posting a picture of him in his swing.

I have all the air conditioners off and the windows opened. Maybe the air conditioner days are over for this year.

Got all the wash/drying done and have showered Preston. I swept and mopped the utility room, kitchen and bathroom, so that is done for this week.

Also put some auctions on ebay. You can take a look if you wish.

http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=homeschoolmommyof2

Medicaid and more

Well, I had my appt. today for medicaid, for both of the children. Believe it or not, because Preston is disabled, there is more red tape for him than there is for Missie. But because 2 of his diagnoses are cerbral palsy and asperger syndrome, she said they usually get passed quicker, and get the medicaid quicker. So we are praying that this is the case, and that he won't have to have a physical by a dr. here. Please help us pray about this!

Another good thing is that Junior can get some overtime! So he is going to be working some 10 hr. days. It will help a lot! I love having him home by 3 in the afternoon, but no overtime hurts! So some days he will work overtime. They have lots of work right now, thank the Lord.

Our pastor is on vacation, and we really missed him yesterday, but last night Bro. Travis preached on prayer. I think a lot of us struggle with this issue. Being able to keep myself focused is a problem for me. It is also a problem for Missie. Our minds are so busy, that it takes more discipline for people like us to really have a good prayer life. I am asking the Lord to help me.

So that is the news for this time! Tune in another day to see what is happening in the lives of the Watsons!