April 7th

Today I am excited, because June 16-23 I get to go to Florida with my girlfriend! We are going to drive down there and stay at some timeshare that her family has but never uses. It is only going to cost each of us $600, so I can just pick up a shift at work for two weeks and pay for the whole thing in cash. We are going to go to Wet and Wild and Islands of Adventure. I am also excited because this means I dont have to work for a whole week. So that is just about all I have been thinking about all weekend, is looking forward to going to FL. (Not Forest Lake, my hometown, the state of Florida.) I had a productive weekend of working and made about $800 this weekend, so that is a plus.

April 2nd- Update on Lisa

Lisa is finally home, and is doing well. She is resting now, and not going back to work until next week. To repair the hole that the doctors found in her heart is going to require open heart surgery. The cost of this procedure is $120,000 and currently the insurance company is saying that they will not cover it. They are claiming that open heart surgery is an elective surgery that is not covered by her insurance. The alternatives to the surgery is a research group testing new equipment, but the chances of something seriously going wrong is one in two participants. However, this surgery is using the newest technology, and will only cost $30,000. So we are in a bit of a situation trying to figure out what to do... The only other option is waiting until she has a second stroke, in which case the insurance company will pay for the surgery. The only problem with this is that the next stroke may be more serious, and could leave her permanently disabled if it affects certain parts of the brain.