So, my good 'ol left arm.... My half human half bionic arm....
Caused me so much drama and goodness PAIN for something like 3 weeks!!! Pain that would seriously stop me in my foot steps, take the breath right out of me, and pretty much lay me flat out in a total complete trance of pain. After playing phone tag with University of Cincinnati Hospital for 2 of the 3 weeks, I finally received paper work in the mail requesting proof of insurance or even income before they would even schedule an appointment to see me. Note: this is the hospital that installed the hardware that my body currently has in it, and yet they have NO record of ever putting it in my body? Odd?
Well Sunday July 14th one of my student's from my classroom at work invited me to attend his church with him and his mom, needless to say I went. Arm still hurting just as bad, and still stoping me in my steps when it would elevate (as it did should I use my left arm in any manner). I tried as much as I could not to use it.... but yet driving my car was still a challenge for me, but I managed to do it with little pain.
After church with my student and lunch, on my way back to Oxford I swung into the Home Depot to see about getting some of their freight boxes for my classroom project, "Box City." I stopped at the customer service desk and talked to a guy name Todd. Just matter of fact asking him when they got truck, and if they could save me about 16 large boxes off of it. He told me that they usually immediately crush them for recycling. Stooped, I simply ask if they could just save me 16.... thinking it wouldn't be that hard. He then asked me "How many boxes are you needing?" Just telling him 16 when I asked him if they could save a few for me, I replied quietly "only 16." He asked me to follow him to a flat that was stacked about 3 feet high with brand new boxes. He asked me to wait a minute so he could go get a flat bed to stack 16 boxes on. He gave me 17 brand new packing boxes right then and there, they cost about $3.50 a piece. As well he helped me get all 17 in my little tiny Sunfire. Let's just say that I couldn't see out of my rear view mirror and my passenger side mirror for the entire rest of the weekend.
On my way back into Oxford, to the home I'm staying at (until the end of this week), I pass buy my dear friends from church Jeff and Becky Maglich and see that their front door is opened. Ecstatic that I just got all of these brand new boxes for my kids at work, I wanted to share the news. Home Depot has been FABULOUS to The Goddard School of Fairfield!!! They've given us everything for our Goddard Garden (the raised bed, the 20 bags of soil to fill it, seeds and plants of fruit and veggies, as well as shovels, rakes, and paint stirs to label the growing plants with) but they just pretty much helped me out with our Box City art project, that will allow the older kids to play with the younger toddlers (this way diversifying their learning experiences for both/all age groups) buy supplying us with the most expensive/biggest part of this project!!!
While there we are talking about everything, Jeff is amazed at "how much favor I have" in my job. I could list everything but I'm not going too... that's for him to do not me. We talked about Mazatlán and the prospects that are being offered with this amazing opportunity and how everything is looking for and with that. I then expressed concern about my arm and not being able to do ANYTHING because of the pain. We prayed over everything, my classroom at work and the wonderful things happening there, Mazatlán and everything that has to do with that (support through prayers and financial means, getting there in September, next summer's possible internship, etc), and my good 'ol left arm.
Since that moment of prayer.... MY ARM HAS NOT HURT AT ALL!!! I can do anything/everything with it!!!! It's been that way for a little over a week now (9 days), not that I'm expecting it to start hurting again. But I'm elated that it's not hurting!!!! God you so totally rock dude!!!!
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