God's Defrost-Mode

I just realized it has been 18 days since my last post. That is terrible. Life just totally got away from me. Our household has been on a bit of a medical merry-go-round of sorts. Part of this involved me; part involved my middle-aged "nephew."

In both cases, we were frozen in a rut, ignoring things we needed to deal with, but content in our frozen state.

Unfortunately, or rather fortunately, God took over and defrosted us.

In my case, I hadn't been to a doctor in several years. When I finally went for my first visit a month or two ago, I set off a chain reaction of tests, tests, and more tests. This was good, and it was bad.

It was bad because I am growing weary of all these office visits and tests and co-pays. But it is good because I will be 71 in a few days and my health issues, while not disastrous, definitely needed attention. I am now on track. I will have foot surgery in November (bunion and hammer toe), a colonoscopy soon after that, and probably cataract surgery early next year. All necessary and all easier on me now than later.

In my nephew's case, he hadn't been to a doctor in many, many years because he had no insurance. After a year at this current job, it finally kicked in. At the same time, his health re-certification, a necessity on this job, was due on the 21st. We ran into a great deal of trouble. We tried two different doctors and neither would certify him because of his blood pressure and possibility of diabetes. We finally realized that, even though his provider had not yet sent his membership card, we needed meds to deal with these issues or he would not be re-certified in time and could lose his job. He called his employer, got his group insurance number, and we ran from one doctor to urgent care. There, they did diagnose the diabetes and provided prescriptions for both conditions, and because we now had a group number, we were able to get the meds with small co-pays. Three days later, he went back to one of the doctors, and was successfully re-certified for a full year.

The point to this is that, if God had not defrosted my nephew's frozen state of mind (frozen with fear of losing his job), he might not have pushed for that group number on the right day and followed through. If God had not defrosted my state of mind, some of my upcoming medical procedures might have been much more involved and invasive.

I love hindsight. With it, I can always happily see how God works in the background to get us on the path he needs us to be on.

Thank you, Father, for helping us to finally move in the direction you wanted us to take.