Playing Catch-Up!

 I have not posted in almost a year. It went by really fast!! I want to do a little update for those of you who may not see much of us and wonder how Ronnie is doing. He had rather me tell you because he generally does not like talking about his illness.If asked, he will tell most people he is doing well. Most days he has little energy and if he does not have a few good days in a week, he tends to get a bit  depressed. It is very difficult to make plans to go places now because when the time comes he may not be up to going. We started to Texas a few months back. We made it to Mississippi and had to turn around and come back home. Gout jumped on his foot and he was in some pain. That is okay, we enjoyed the ride out even if the ride back was not a lot of fun!

  His blood work has been really good since his recovery from the stem cell transplant for the Multiple Myeloma. Due to the fact we lost the Cobra coverage last October, he has not had many of the tests needed because they are super expensive. The monthly labs he had to have costs between 500 - 800 a month! We will be making payments to the lab for quite a while. Thankfully the drug companies provided his chemo drugs and his monthly infusion. If they had not been kind enough to do that, I don't know how we would have made it! Those drugs costs like 8k a month! God has provided for us when we could not see a way! We have not had to have any fund raisers. Also thankfully the Lymphoma Leukemia Society will help us pay the premiums on the insurance that begins this month. You must have coverage before they can help you so this will be a huge blessing.

  He has to have quite a few tests that will be happening soon. Please pray that the results of the bone marrow, skeletal study and the 24 hour urine will come back good.

    I thank all of you for your thoughts and prayers! God is good , all the time!