by Richard Manetta
10. July 2009 22:50
Well, good news and bad news (as always, right?). The month started out decent. We stayed with my dad, Linda and the family for a few days prior to a CT scan I had on the first of the month. We had a lot of fun with them and they made us feel really welcome. It was nice to get to know all my brothers and sisters on that side of the family more. While we were there, we met up with my friend Bobby and checked out the Star Trek exhibit at the Detroit Science Center. We had a lot of fun and it felt good to spend some time with him. We visited my mom, Larry, Nick, and my grandparents one of the nights for dinner and it was nice to just sit and chit chat for a bit.
As if that wasn't nice enough, we 'adopted' a ferret from my brother Justin and it's been a nice addition to our animal house family. When the first finally rolled around and the CT scan was performed, the doctor said there still doesn't seem to be much change in the cancer. That's good news, of course, but I'll have to keep an eye on my symptoms, as I may need to get back on chemotherapy if they get any worse.
A few days after we got back, we drove down to Kentucky with Brianne's mom to go to the Creation Museum again. This was the second time we'd been there, but it was a lot of fun because they had added quite a bit to it. There was a nice botanical garden with lots of drawbridges and waterfalls and (my favorite part) dragonflies. They also had a petting zoo that was added with the camel and horse/zebra mixes being the most fun to hang out with.
When we got back home, things started to go downhill. Our mini-fridge that we keep in the room is on the fritz and all our food (we had just gone grocery shopping before we left) was spoiled. We also received a letter from my insurance company saying they had reviewed our payment history and we were overpaid in the beginning of my disability and that I owed that money back. It'll wind up being about 2000 dollars, and from what I gathered, they'll take it out of our next 4 payments or so... which means we'll have about 500 and something dollars less a month than we're getting now. After I get the forms in and talk to the lady again, I'll see if they can do like half-payments over maybe 8 months, but that'll still be a few hundred less than what we're at now...and at this point we're still just pretty much 'breaking even'. 
We're going to have to skip paying a lot of bills for a while. I know God will take care of us, but it just sucks having all this on our shoulders too. I even told the lady that all I saw on the paper was 'over paid, under paid, blah, blah' - it just swirled in my head, so she's going to send out a spreadsheet with all the details.
Some day we'll pull through all this, right?
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