What Goes Around..

We got up this morning for Dave's dentist appointment, only to be told there was no dentist appointment. Apparently, the dentist had a family emergency, and had to clear his schedule for this afternoon. It's just the way our luck tends to go. Dave seems to think it was a blessing in disguise though now. He was checking the website for our insurance company tonight, and I guess there's only four dentists, (in one office), within an hour from here that's in our preferred plan. I didn't really understand the difference between covered by our insurance, and in our preferred network, but I kinda-sorta do now. It's the difference between a fifteen dollar co-pay and a one hundred dollar co-pay. I didn't want to have to go to a dentist forty-five minutes away, but I guess if it saves us eight-five dollars, we'll have to. Needless to say, the dentist I wanted to take Dave to is not in our plan, and I'll have to try and get him an appointment at the other place.

We've still been hiding out inside, with nowhere else to need to be. It's been SO hot, and the water is still everywhere, and gas prices are so high. If there isn't somewhere we have to be, I really try to just stay home.

Tonight, we watched The Water Horse. Wayne rented it off of his satellite pay-per-view. It was really quite cute, and I think we all enjoyed it a lot. We've been watching So, You Think You Can Dance as well. Mom and Wayne and I watched it last season, late night, after I would just be getting home from spending a long day at the hospital with Dave. It's such an addicting show, and I just absolutely fall in love with the people, and their stories. I'm so glad to have Dave here watching it with me this time around.

Wayne's been working long, twelve hour shifts from midnight to noon this week, as the sandbagging and water pumping continues around the area. Tonight on the news we saw an entire house floating down the road as a levee broke off our river. They had been saying this was the worst flood we've had since 1913, but it's since been upgraded to the worst flood in our area.. ever. Our county has been included in the first eight counties bad enough to have FEMA come in with emergency aid, and it really is quite shocking to see just how serious it's gotten, so fast.

Mom and I have been talking extensively about the rain, the flooding, the yard sale, and how unlikely it'll be that we'll be able to have it this Friday. The chance of rain just keeps climbing higher and higher. We're going to keep all the stuff packaged up and try to keep it dry, and try again some weekend in the future. As we look around the city though, people are underwater, and have lost everything. There's several boxes out there of just clothes alone. There's a huge box of t-shirts that have never even been worn left over from the auction. There's so much that's either too big for Mom and Dave and I, or much too small. We think it'll help those people much more than our yard sale shoppers, so we're going to take the clothes out, and donate them to the red cross downtown instead. I think it's a much better place for them than out there on that flat-bed trailer right now anyway.

I wanted to sincerely thank everyone out there who's been sending in their thoughts, advice and encouragement to Dave and I about this fraud report incident. So many sincere and caring people have encouraged me to really give that person a piece of my mind, and tell them how I feel. They want me to go into great detail about how what they've done has affected Dave and I and the lives we lead now. I don't really want to do that. I honestly don't want to give a person like that a second thought. They don't deserve my time.. they really don't.

I will say though, aside from them, and directly in accordance with a day in the life of Amy and Dave, that they just have no idea what they've really accomplished here. I can't even think about what it's put on my legal record and possibly for the rest of my entire life. Our food stamps alone being cut to ten dollars a month for the two of us is pretty pitiful, but the real concern is Dave's medicaid assistance being cut to eighty dollars a month. That's not even enough to help me get him his prescriptions for the month anymore, let alone help with the many varied appointments he'll need in the immediate future. Someone out there really wanted to hurt me, and instead.. what they've done is hurt Dave.

When I made Dave my only priority in the beginning, and didn't even consider money.. people said I needed to earn my own way. When Dave got a little bit better and didn't need constant care, I tried to juggle full-time care-giving duties and a side job too. Someone reports me, and now I'm not able to do that anymore, (when we needed it the most). I'm not able to go out and get a real occupation outside of the home right now. I've been legally ordered to make sure Dave has twenty-four hour care. We can't afford an adult day care, and Dave would be miserable in one even if we could. Dave can't do all the things he used to be able to do. He can't drive, and has a lot of appointments, and therapy to get to. Who's going to get him there, if not me? He needs me with him, and if we have to go hungry because of it, and because of some miserable, meddling individual, then so be it. One day you'll get it as good as you've given it, and I can only hope that you're able to manage it as well as I've had to. I really, honestly and truly don't know what to say, past that. I know that no matter what I say, there will be strong opinions in it's wake. So, I'm not going to talk about it anymore. This too shall pass, and I'll be stronger for it in the end.

Thank You for joining us tonight, and until next time.. Much Love, Many Hugs, and Good Night to You All.