Thank You for Praying

I began to get a VERY sore right index finger last Tuesday. I didn't think too much of it. On Wed it was worse and my parents, who were visiting, encouraged me to see my Dr. I had been on an antibiotic for several days because of my tooth and the root canal. I thought it was strange to have this finger infection while on an antibiotic. I saw my Dr on Thursday and he wrapped it and gave me another antibiotic. My finger has just gotten worse everyday. My Dr was pretty certain it was staph. Sunday my finger was REALLY bad and I went to a walk in (wait forever) clinic. This Dr put me on another antibiotic thinking it was strep. Monday I saw my Dr and he said he wanted me to see a surgeon. I saw a surgeon yesterday afternoon who looked and acted and talked just like Dr Oz!!!!!!! He examined my finger, put his hands in the air and said," I am not touching you!" He was concerned that there may be an infection in my bone or joint. He said he wanted me to see a hand surgeon immediately. I asked, "Should I be worried about this?" and he said, "you should be VERY worried about this. It could be very serious." When he said that, my blood ran cold from head to toe. He told me to go directly to the hand surgeon that they were waiting on me. He asked them to do x-rays. I was sooooo scared. I had gone to the Dr that day by myself, I thought, "it's just my finger, I am a big girl." As I drove to the hand surgeon office I called Steve and told him that I thought he needed to come. Of course he left work immediatly. PRAISE TO JESUS it was NOT in my bone or joint. The hand surgeon was very comforting and told me that he was going to try one more antibiotic before he did surgery. He said there was a chance it could be mersa, since it is not responding to antibiotics. If I am no better by Thursday he will do surgery to get out the infection. The part that scares me is that NO antibiotic is helping me. Please pray this one will work! I have fever because of the infection. Thank you so much for all the prays and words of encouragement. I do feel a lot better about everything today. I was trying to sing praise songs(in my mind) in the hand surgeon waiting room. All I could think of was old old songs. haha nothing wrong with that I don't guess. I was so frazzled that I could not think of any modern songs.
Guess what the title of Oct. 26th devotional was? FEAR NOT
God's timing is always perfect. There was this qoute at the end of the devotional, "Set your thoughts, not on the storm, but on the LOVE that rules the storm."
We have had some little storms at out house lately. In the past four weeks, between me and the girls, we have seen a Dr 15 times and Emily is going again today(16) for an ear infection that is hanging around.
Do you remember the episode on Little House where Ma stayed at home while the family went away for a few days and she cut her leg ? She had a terrible infection set in and high high fever and she almost had to cut her own leg off. I have thought a lot about Ma ingalls in the past few days.

I am very thankful that I had my parents here last week to help and then Steve's parents came Sunday. It has been such a blessing because we didn't know my finger was going to turn into such a big deal. They have been so good to care of the girls and things as I go to doctors and go to pharmacies and all that. I am so thankful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep on praying for my finger. I appreciate it so much!