Wonderful friends

Today I got another injection in my back. They used an epidural needle to inject steroids into my lower back. This is my 4th one I've had in the last 10 months, so either the pain will go away, or I will look like the Hulk with my roided up back. We also got my MRI results back, which showed a more severe herniation on my left side than the first MRI showed. I will go to a surgeon next month.

With Bryson being gone this week, I am so thankful for how much support we have here in Missouri. You can't drive after an injection, so my wonderful friend Ann drove me there and waited (it was an hour wait just in the waiting room before they call me back) and to take me, my other amazing friend Sarah watched Ann's so Ann could take me. I have a lovely friend, Rochelle coming to visit me, and another great friend, Allison, offered to bring my lunch. My facebook wall has been FILLED with well wishes and lots of prayers. I am so incredibly blessed to have such a great support system to take care of me here and such a great network of prayers back in Colorado. I am so blessed.

The thread of our life would be dark, Heaven knows
If it were not with friendship and love intertwined;
And I care not how soon I may sink to repose,
When these blessing shall cease to be dear to my mind.
But they who have loved the fondest, the purest,
Too often have wept o'er the dream they believed;
And the heart that has slumber'd in friendship securest
Is happy indeed if 'twas never deceived.
But send round the bowl; while a relic of truth
Is in man or in woman, this prayer shall be mine, --
That the sunshine of love may illumine our youth,
And the moonlight of friendship console our decline. - Thomas Moore