Med Coach

ANOTHER action-packed day!  I'm almost ready for some boredom, haha!  My first order of business this morning was to go to the hospital!  Don't worry, I wasn't sick.  A few days ago Lisa told me that George's mother Sharyn, who works as a nurse for Med Coach, would be coming to State College this week to pick up a patient.  Sharyn and I got in touch with each other and agreed that I would come to the hospital at the time they would be picking up the patient - 10 AM Thursday.  

It was actually at the cancer center next to the hospital that Destiny and I found the big coach.  Sharyn travels all over the country, she as the nurse, plus two drivers, to transport patients from state to state. 

She was already inside the cancer center, and the driver let Destiny and me wait inside the coach.  Here's a view from the front.

Destiny was fascinated by the side door and lift. 

After a while Sharyn came out with the patient and some family members. 

We watched as they put the patient on the lift and into the coach...

... and family members gave their goodbyes.

Destiny took this shot of Sharyn and me.  Funny that we met up in State College - where her son met my daughter!  Sophie's two grandma's!

If Destiny had not been with me I probably would have sobbed all the way home.  I was surprised how the inside of that coach and watching the family members of the patient lingering with her, stirred up memories of my mother.  In 1982, when she was fighting pancreatic cancer, she flew by air ambulance to a cancer hospital in Zion, IL.  After three weeks, when it was obvious that there was no more they could do to help her, she was flown back to Lancaster.  I was along on that flight, and I can't think about it without deep, deep emotions.  I felt those emotions inside that coach today.  Bless Sharyn for being there for people in those kinds of situations.  That is indeed a ministry.

This afternoon Destiny and I had fun  making posters.  What a mess we made!

This evening she had her last night of 4-H, and Dick and I had a practice at church with Ross, our guitar player.  We'll be having a praise and prayer service on Sunday evening.  

And now I must hit the sack.  Tomorrow morning Destiny and I will be heading for Lancaster, hitting up Salvation Army and Penneys for some school uniforms, then on to an eye doctor appointment for her, and finally taking her home to Reading. 

I have to post one more picture, though.  Anthony posted this on FB this evening and captioned it, "My li'l copycat."  I can't look at it without laughing out loud.  It is just so stinkin' cute.