canadian hospitals, sandwiches at 2 am, coffee shops and such..

so much has happened since i blogged yesterday! last night..i rushed to the emergency room at 11 pm. (not really an emergency..but i'm really glad i went.) like i said in my blog yesterday..my finger was swollen and in alot of pain. so leeann and her mom (some people that go to the Sanctuary) came and picked alyssa and me up from the hotel and took me to the hospital. we got there and found out since i'm not from canada my insurance has no bearing, so we had to pay $400 up front. ridiculous, i know. so anyways. we wait in the waiting room for about 2 hours before they call me back. then they call me back..and i expect to go to a room, but they actually just sit me in some chairs in the hallway. apparently, canadians don't care so much about privacy. so anyways. we sit there next to a woman whose whole arm is swelling up by the minute from a bee sting. so while we sit there, the doctor comes and examines her and they start an iv. yes, while we sat there.

finally, after another hour or so, the doctor comes to me. and lets me know that i have auto-immune inflammatory arthritis. in other words, arthritis in my index finger. she gave me some prescriptions for prednisone (not my fav..but i'll deal with it) and something called tylenol 3 (hard core tylenol with codine!) almost 24 hours later..i'm feeling 10 times better!! yay God for giving me drugs to feel better!! :) the bad thing is arthritis never really goes away..and i have a senior piano recital coming up in oct. but i guess i'll just cross that bridge when i get to it.

so we finished up at the er around 2:30 and went to a 24 hour pharmacy..which i thought was pretty awesome..i didn't even know they existed. and the pharmacist actually let me take some of the pain killers right there..he got me water. :) anyways. so alyssa and i got home around 2:45 and sat down for some sandwiches so i could take the prednisone. we finally rolled into bed around 3 am. we left a note for taylor and carson informing them i had broken my finger in 5 places and was having emergency surgery soon. we didn't think they would believe it, but they actually did!! it was so funny to see their reaction this morning. we have such a great bond within our team.

we decided to leave a little later than normal today, go to the campus, prayer walk and have our bible study. yesterday we invited several people to the bible study, but only 1 guy showed up.. he is a student at UTM, but he also attends the Sanctuary. his name is kevin. kevin isn't a christian yet, but hes SOO super close. we spent the evening with him, had a lot of deep discussions and genuinely had a good time. the team agreed that today felt like our first real day..we actually did what we came here to do.

so tomorrow, we will be going to the UTM campus to pass out freezie pops. we are praying for hot weather and lots of students!

thank you all for your prayers for my finger! i know that satan is trying his hardest to discourage us..but its really not working. :) i'm pretty excited for tomorrow, and looking forward to spending more time with kevin and hopefully some more UTM students! love y'all!

p.s.- i think all proms are over..not that i even noticed the 2 rival schools here last night because that codine really kicked in..apparently some people were arrested and 1 person got alcohol poisining. not good.