Onward Christian Soldier

Well time marched slowly on as our "new" family unit learned more, by tiny bit more about; our daily routine, how to deal with others dealing with us, and how the government worked or should I say "doesn't" work.

I had to get financial help to pay my bills. I had to get my Social Security transferred from Washington state to Utah. I needed to set up my therapies. But most of all I needed to find a doctor. But, we had to do all this on Glory's teaching schedule, which limited our time to get things done, down to about an hour a day (if Glory jumped in the car and raced home right as the bell rang). Like that could ever happen for any teacher! LOL

We got the AFDC (Aid For Dependent Children/welfare) set up, but it started in the middle of that first month.

My Social Security took three and a half months to transfer (they did send back payments for the time we had waited). So my kids and I lived off Glory until we received the money. Thank God that Glory had the means to do this! Thank you Glory for your generosity! What the heck would I have done otherwise?!

My therapies had to wait until I had my new medical card from welfare. Same with going to a doctor. What if I got an infection?! Were they really just going to let me rot?!

Finding a doctor was not to hard, because there was only one choice. The downtown clinic (as a welfare recipient you only got one choice). The problem was to get a doctor in that clinic, (let alone anywhere) not to come in the room, look at me, their jaw drop to the floor and without a word step right back out the door, grab all the other doctors, bring them in that tiny,"spacious" (LOL) room while pointing and staring at me dumbfounded. I felt like an exhibit at a science fair!

Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.
Proverbs 8:33-35

I am blessed

Merrym Dawn Mathis Bruce