Surgery

Two years ago Randy injured his right ankle snowboarding. He went off a jump and missed the landing by about 3 feet, instead landed from about 20-25 feet in the air and shattered his ankle! He knew it was bad when the ER doctor wouldn't even touch him! He referred him to an orthopedic surgeon instead. We went to the orthopedic surgeon who told us "you powdered the bone" . . . not what you want to here!!! Come to find out not only did he shatter the bone but he destroyed the cartlidge in his ankle as well. He had surgery to piece the bone back in place and a plate and 8 screws were added. About a year ago he had stem cells injected to try to help rejenerate some cartlidge. Here we are two years post injury and Randy is still in a lot of pain! His ankle joint is bone on bone and grinding away. So, the plan . . . fuse his ankle. This will restrict the mobility in his ankle but because of that it will take away virtually all of the pain. Randy is so excited for his surgery! After two years of pain and frustration he is about to be a real person again. He will be able to do the day to day things without pain or with very minimal discomfort.
Well, last week he gets a call from the orthopedic doctor's nurse saying she spoke with the insurance and they will not cover the surgery!!! what?!?! Randy was devastated! There was a light at the end of the tunnel, the pain was going to be gone and now, back to square one! The insurance company's reason was because we were laid off from our jobs back in the summer, ending our health coverage, we had a short laps in coverage and this was a pre-existing condition, they were not covering anything regarding his ankle for 1 year! We tried every loop hole we could come up with, made phone calls etc. but it looked like it was a dead end.
Then Monday Randy received a letter in the mail from the insurance company that stated they had reviewed his case and his surgery was approved!!!! We were so excited! We had the letter reviewed by the doctor and my step dad who does health insurance to make sure were weren't missing anything and this was really true! They both agreed, all is well and we are in the clear! So to surgery we go, Friday afternoon.

Thank you so much to all of you who said prayers on our behalf. It was definitely a good lesson in Faith for us. We are so very grateful!