Wed. night

At long last I have a lot of good news for you!!!!   It's over folks, I mean over!  I am still processing it but my nightmare is essentially over.  The bankruptcy trustee who was hearing my case was satisfied and, according to my lawyer, I'm done.  I was half-way home from Tampa before it really hit me.  There is the little matter of the accident I was in 2 1/2 years ago but if the bankruptcy court pursues it, I don't get anything out of it and the info I gave her made her think it's really not worth their effort.  The money I paid the other lawyer is just down the drain, not worth them going after.  When she asked me who she was and I told her, she looked at my lawyer and said, "Is she still practicing?"  Tells you, doesn't it.

As for my friend Sharon, when I spoke with her last night, she had had her catheter removed and was no longer on oxygen.  She said that the doc said that her blood count was up and he felt that the bleeding was almost stopped.  The only thing that was still in her was the port for chemo.  She had climbed 16 steps yesterday!  Sharon was hoping to be discharged today (don't know if it happened).  Don't think she's now OK; she isn't.  She still has all those cancers and blood clots in her legs but, two weeks ago, I thought she was dying.  Please keep praying for her.  Thanks!

Finally, this evening, I signed up with Coventry Advantage Health Insurance.  I really had no choice as Bay Care Hospital system dropped United Healthcare on Monday, no chance of a reconciliation. I hate HMO's but my agent tells me that this one will be good and I will get my Part B returned to me (appx. $1200/yr).  So three of the big problems I've had are gone except I can't get sick before Jan. 1 or I have to go to a hospital a long ways away.

I haven't started Christmas yet, can't even think about it this year.  I don't usually do it anyhow because my birthday is next week and it gets lost enough as is.  Can't believe I'll be 66!

You know what I was thinking the other day?  I love this group but I always joined the ornament exchange with HQ the last several years and I realized that that wasn't happening this year.  Kind of miss it.  I always sent this really neat metal palm tree w/rhinestones ornament to the people I got to kind of remind them of warm fuzzies in the dead of winter.

Sorry to rattle on, been doing whenever I opened my mouth tonight; I think it's the release of the stress.  I finished Stephanie Laurens new book and it is really good.  Now, I'm reading an anthology by Linda Lael Miller called The Christmas Brides.  The first book was really good and I only just started the second.

Trudy