A particularly ouchy week

I've kind of put off posting this week because I'm not having a particularly happy, good week. Last week, when I showered, Laurie noticed a new lump on my back. We're pretty sure that it's another blocked lymph node causing problems, but it is acting a bit different that the one in my neck. For one thing, it hurts really badly all the time. Even just running your hand over my back right now is very painful. So, I've been favoring that side for a week now and all my other muscles are protesting. My PCP hasn't been in the office all week, so hopefully we can get in contact with her today and see what's up. It's just frustrating to be in pain and frustrating to not be able to do the things I want to. I was trying to spin laying down last night with the heating pad. :)

In other bad news, we found out this week that Laurie won't have a job starting December 17th. That's about a month away (some people have assumed we mean next year, but no, unfortunately). Having just bought a house, we are not too pleased. The whole school is shutting down. It seems that they have realized half way through the school year that they don't have enough money to complete it. They should have closed the school in June and even though they own some property free and clear that might pay for the rest of the school year, the board of trustees for the school aren't wanting to sell it. Not only is this bad for teachers and staff losing their jobs, the seniors expecting to graduate in May are pretty screwed. Because the school was on the block system, they don't have enough credits to graduate this year at another school. So, everyone is scrambling to try and fix the credit issue and apparently, some parents and former parents, have offered to try to keep the school open. We'll see what happens. There is one glimmer of hope in this, there is a position open at a school near us that Laurie really would fit into very well, so keep us in your prayers, I know that God is in this somewhere and there is a reason for this. God is good and will get us through this. It's just been a long week...