Off the House Buying subject....on to Medical Bills.......

I know I was suppose to follow up on our house buying nightmare, days ago....well, sleep has taken priority...and frankly the nightmare is getting worse. So, for the sake of my own sanity, I am taking a break from the house blogging ( it will be back once things are heading in the right direction a bit more!), and going to rant on something else....Medical bills. UGH!!!
Let me start at the beginning more or less.
About 2 months ago, I suffered a miscarriage. Honestly the worst few days of my life. It began on a Saturday with some bleeding, followed by a trip to the Emergency Room, where we found out the baby was "no longer with us". Being as it was a weekend, the D AND C had to be scheduled for Monday. ( now a D AND C is basically the procedure they use for an abortion. They dilate, ( hence the D ), and go in and clear everything out ( Cuttage is what the C stands for ). So I had to spend the rest of the weekend carrying a baby a I knew would no longer be born. Anyway...I am getting slightly off subject.
It was a horrible experience. ( Oddly, physically, it was a very mild experience for me. Other than the bleeding following the procedure, it was nothing even painful. But the emotional part, was basically the worst pain of my life. )
As if that was not difficult enough....now the medical bills are rolling in.
First there is a $500 bill for prenatal blood work. For a baby I will never be able to meet.
Next, the ER. A bill from the Doctor and a separate bill for the hospital ER.And don't forget the bill for the lab work. Then the day of the D AND C. There is a bill for the hospital, one for the Doctor/surgeon, one for the Anesthesiologist,and another for lab work.
So far we have bills for everything except the D AND C Doctor and the Anesthesiologist....can you guess what we owe so far without those 2 bills? We do have insurance. Which obviously is not very good. As of right now, we owe just under 3K. Remember that does not include the Doctor or the Anesthesiologist. I shudder to think what the total bills will be.
All of this for a baby we wanted so badly, but are not able to have.
So....as we are trying to buy a house, which we WERE happily going into debt free.....that is no longer the case. We go into it with anywhere from 3K - 5K in debt. Miserable.
It is also a pleasant thing to look at the calendar and realize that the day just passed where we would have had our Ultrasound to see if the baby was a boy or a girl. That is hard enough...or at least one would think it hard enough. Apparently it is not...a flood of bills in the mail is necessary to make the pain more difficult I guess.

We as a country, are in serious need of Health Care Reform