Strep Update: Jesus is Awesome.

Let me tell you, Jesus is awesome.

As I was typing out my last blog post I was juggling insurance companies trying to figure out how in the world insurance works, never mind being an American in a foreign country trying to receive aid, and I was thinking, "For crying out loud! It's strep, I know I need some sort of penicillin, just give me some antibiotics..." Things don't work that way of course, so we finally headed out to the Port Colborne hospital. (CJ, one of the OM guys on my team, and his wife came with us)

After seeing the triage nurse (the nurse who checks vitals) I went to register as a patient. The registrar told me that there was a $620 fee up front. I knew that it would be high, but I was hoping it wouldn't be that high. So, considering that I only had strep throat and just wanted a prescription, I decided $620 wasn't worth it and we opted to start heading to the walk-in clinic where they would see me for $50. Luckily, I had to sign out first. I went back to the triage nurse who had seen me before and explained that I was just going to go to the walk-in clinic. There was a doctor present who overheard my predicament exclaimed, "This is @#&$*! Get over here, I'll check you out." She looked at my throat for 3 seconds, declared I had strep and quickly wrote out a prescription. For free. An hour later I had antibiotics that are hopefully coursing through my system
now getting rid of the stuff.

Today's been one of those days where there's no way I can doubt that God provides for me. It's only day 2 and we've been so incredibly blessed here in Canada.

O Canada!

Well folks, it has already been quite the adventure. Our 16 hour travel day went well and we crossed the border pretty painlessly. They had us go to immigration, but that didn't turn out to be a big deal. We finally made it to Port Colborne around 12:30 am. 


Yesterday we got up and finished unpacking in our respective homes. Paul is living in a single apartment above a fashion shop and I'm sharing a home with Joanna, another missionary here in a retirement community  Port Colborne definitely has the small town feel to it, but it's bigger than Troy and definitely bigger than Upland. It's right off of a canal and the website promises us that there is a beach close by! We also got a tour of the office and guess what, we each have our own office! 


Next week is OM Canada's "Planning days" where we won't be doing much tech work, but will be doing what we can to help assist the team to make planning days go smoothly. Our email said: " I would like to ask you two if you would be willing to help out with some of the running around that will need to be done next week during our meetings.  Joanna will certainly need your help with set-up and moving supplies.  You may also be called upon to pick up lunches or that sort of thing." 


We're real interns! :)


Yesterday my throat started feeling kind of sore but I decided to give it another day before trying to seek medical assistance (Honestly, I was just trying to avoid it). I woke up in the middle of the night and decided to take a look at the back of my throat and unfortunately it looks like I have strep. We're currently in the process of figuring out insurance and how to get medical assistance. So if you could be praying for us that this goes smoothly, that Paul doesn't come down with it, and for Planning Days ahead that would be wonderful!

(I'll put up a post up sometime later detailing more about why we're in Canada, what we're doing, trying to accomplish etc.)