15 months going on 4 years

Okay. Does she really look like a 15 month old? She looks soooo much like a little 4 year old in this picture. I'm missing her smallness. Maybe it has something to do with our weekend and losing another baby. I think that now would be an alright time to have another little one.....but apparently that's not supposed to be. I know it will happen in His timing and I am patient and faithful in that. For He has shown so much grace, mercy and faithfullness in this past week. I could not have asked for a more speedy recovery from the surgery. I will no longer have these problems again. Chris's boss was a saint in working with his time off to stay at home 2 extra days to take care of me even though he didn't have the leave. Katelyn was an angel throughout those days. (She seems to be finding her "mouth" these past 2 days though...Sass Pot!) We have no insurance yet won't have to pay a cent for the surgery.

....the reason:

Chris had insurance through his job. They paid 75 percent of Chris's coverage. Fine. We had us all covered at a reasonable, by no means cheap, but reasonable rate. THEN the company they were using was going to raise their rates by 35 percent. They got fired. So, his company looked into other insurance companies and found one that best fit everyone's needs. The catch, it was still a 27% increase in rates. YIKES! So, were before we were paying around $220 a month ,we would now be paying almost $800 a month!! There is no way we can afford $800 a month just for insurance. It didn't make sense. My one docotr's visit a year AND Katelyn's visits over the course of the year didn't even add up to ONE monthly premium. That is why we decided to cancel the insurance. All the while knowing full well that something COULD happen but were confident that if He wanted something to happen ie pergnancy, injury etc, He would see us through it. And He wasn't kidding! 2 minutes before I was wheeled into surgery, a social worker came into the ER room and told us that we may qualify for Medicaid. We were thinking....Chris makes too much. Well, the next day we get a call informing us that because Medicaid considers my pregnancy a human life we DO qualify for it. See, 3 people under his income don't qualify, but 4 does. Praise the Lord! I can't express how incrediably blessed and in awe we are and feel. We received JUST the hospital bill the other day and it was $15,000 dollars. We are still to receive the 5 other doctors, pathologists, etc that were involved in that one day at the hospital. So, it looks as though the entire bill to go to the ER for 4 hours, have my ruptured tube removed in 2 hours, and a 1 hour stay in recovery will end up being about $25,000. Our car was only just slightly more than that. That is way we are so very thankful that we are poor right now! How bad is that? I'm not proud....just thankful that our tax dollars are going to something and someone that I can honestly say needs it. Thank you God.


"God sends His love and His faithfulness" Ps57:10