Monday the 25th

I have procrastinated on getting the paperwork in to the insurance company for the extra policy I carry that gives us money for every day one of us is in the hospital and pays a lump sum for a cancer diagnosis and for costs incurred during chemo and some other treatments. It seems to be overwhelming me----or maybe I'm in denial. We need to wade through the volumes of medical records we have and try to make sense of how to do this.

Today the kids were pretty good; I don't know why. They were good listeners and worked fairly well. B had a tough day and A was in the room hiding at lunch. He gave himself checkmarks on the incentive checkmark clipboard I have and was hiding behind the couch when I came into the room ten minutes before the lunchtime ended. I had meetings and then I came home. I am well-prepared for this week.

Tonight is the first time we go to a support group specifically for people with pancreatic cancer. They only meet once a month, they were off last month, and we missed their November meeting by two days. It will be interesting to meet others who have the same disease. If there are any. It's kind of weird to think that we might be the only people there.

Ah, but maybe I'm not holding it together as well as I thought. I got you up at 6:15, you had a bit of food, and we headed on over to the meeting. Laura and Kyle headed back to the desert. We got to the Wellness Community at 6:45. We walked in and a couple of women were there. They asked if they could help us and we said we were there for the pancreatic cancer support group. They said, "Oh, they're going to be finished in fifteen minutes. They start at 5:00." Oh, shoot! We missed it again. We missed November because we joined after the fourth Monday, they were closed on the fourth Monday in December, and now we have missed January. I have February written in my datebook; we won't be missing these again.