Just Checking In

Okay, everyone's afraid I'm dead because it's been a while since I last updated my blog. Just for future reference, if I do die suddenly without getting to post a deliberately last blog, I'll have Roland or Karen post a blog entry letting everyone know.

My real problem is that even with a death sentence hanging over me, the day-in, day-out routine gets pretty, well, routine. I'm still too busy and/or tired and/or poor to go on a lot of exciting adventures to report, but not much new is happening on the cancer front (as far as I can tell), either. In addition to that, I'm trying to maintain 4 pages on www.choosing2live.com, as well as writing on www.naznet.com, so my writing energies and inspiration are pretty diluted.

On a wildly different subject:
Pinto Beans
Brisbane
Australia

Those are just listed to make it easier for search engines to find this blog entry. I had another poor stranded American e-mail me this week wanting to know where to find pinto beans in Brisbane because I mentioned in a blog entry many months ago that we'd found them but didn't say where. So, for future searchers, I get pinto beans from Mrs. Flannery's Natural Grocers in Chermside. They have several other locations listed on their website: http://www.mrsflannerys.com.au/. They also have several other kinds of beans AND Karo syrup. I have no idea how THAT qualifies for shelf space in an organic natural food store!

On still another front, Roland preached at one of the Brisbane Nazarene churches last Sunday. It was a good message, of course. At the end of the service, the pastor gave me a check from an offering they'd taken for me earlier. They have some incredibly sweet, caring people there.
We also this week got a refund check from the hospital for charges we'd paid and then the insurance company wound up paying. We'll be able to apply both checks to our remaining debt for chemo drugs.

So, all in all, not a bad week.