So Blessed

The last couple of months have not been the easiest for us. With my surgery in January we have had more bills than we would prefer. With medical, housing, cars...they just don't seem to end! For a little while it seemed like we were getting a different medical bill every day and for a different amount. We paid off the small ones in full and paid a small portion for the bigger ones. The statements showed what our insurance was covering, which just wasn't very much. It was frustrating to see the numbers.

Pretty soon we received a couple more bills that were a lot bigger than what we had anticipated. So we made a payment on the smallest one but decided to make a phone call before making any kind of payment on the bigger one. We just weren't sure what we were being billed for, and we wanted to make sure we weren't being double charged for any of the labs we had already paid for. The larger of the two bills was a little over $4,500.

I called the patient account services to ask them for specifics on our bills. After being connected with an operator he pulled up our account and told me what our total balance was. It was $1,550. I was really confused and thought at first that he had the wrong account open because of the bill we had just received. Not to mention the one right before that for $1,000. He told me that a few days after the larger bill was sent out our insurance covered another $900, but it didn't show on the statement. And the hospital also discounted another $2,000, bringing our new balance to $1,550. When I asked him what this amount was for he told me it was for the surgery and everything included that day. I couldn't believe what I was hearing - I was in total shock! After I got off the phone I called Tyson and let him know the news. We were both really excited to be saving more money.

What started off as an $8,000 day in the hospital ended up being less than $2,000. This is such an amazing blessing for us. We know that the Lord is watching over us during these trying times and wants us to succeed. We feel so blessed to know that with our faith we have been able to receive wonderful blessings. We are so blessed!

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