Digging out

So, financially we are in a giant ditch. Oh more like a crater has opened and swallowed us. Are we done falling? We are certainly done digging. So now we are trying to climb out and fill in the hole behind us, so the bills are not done coming in from the surgery, and we are no where near done with the doctor's follow up visits. We applied for assistance, because a friend had to buy us groceries. We don't qualify for assistance, we make too much for them to even take into consideration the medical costs. We only make a little more than the allowable level, but still it's over and they won't look at us. We quit smoking, because obviously if we have to have someone buy us groceries, the whopping $302 per month we were spending on ciggarettes is totally uncalled for. We put ourselves in this hole last year when we bought the new car, then the jobs went south and we were making over $20,000 less than we were last July. Same boat a lot of folks are in, we are dodging phone calls, can't figure out what to do. Thankful the rent is paid for another month, all the basic necessities are paid, except for the GIGANTIC car registration which was due last week, oh and the ability to buy food for ourselves. Just praying, trying to hold it together. No one around the house is listening, busy staring at the television instead. That is making things so much better!