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Medical Bills

I have nightmares about medical bills. In the dreams, the bills stack up into heaping piles and finally overtake our office.

Cadence’s doctor bills are about half a million dollars! Just the helicopter ride cost $18,000.00. One day in the neonatal ICU cost 2 grand, and she was there for eleven weeks. That’s not including all the tests they ran on her. Plus the pediatrician and eye doc bills. And then there are my own medical bills. I was in the ICU for three days, and in the hospital for a total of six. And I know it cost a fortune just for the ambulance to arrive at my door.

The docs are afraid that Cadence is going to contract a respiratory virus called RSV, so they’ve ordered her to have six shots to prevent it. Each dose costs around $1,200-1,500!

Luckily we have excellent insurance and they’ve agreed to pay for 80%. We applied for government aid to take care of the remainder. We’ll just have to wait and see how much we’ll end up paying out of our own pocket.