Packers

This past Sunday, Nate went to his first Packers game at Lambeau field!  A generous friend gave us tickets a while ago.  I was praying that Nate would feel well enough to attend the game and he felt great!  Of course it was a chilly game, but the Packers won.

Our insurance company informed us that Nate will not be able to have his stem cell transplant in Grand Rapids because the transplant unit is too new to be considered a center of excellence and therefore not in network.  So he will have to go to Ann Arbor, Detroit or Chicago.  This is not good news.  The transplant will be at least a 3 week hospital stay.  It will be challenging for friends to visit Nate if he is a couple hours away from Holland.  The kids will not be able to visit Nate, maybe on the weekends.  And I do not know what I will do.  How can I be with Nate and the kids?  My anxiety level rises the more I think about it.  We are going to appeal the insurance company's decision.  However, the Grand Rapids hospital told us other patients with our insurance have been in the same situation and there is not much to be done.  The paperwork is in process for our insurance company to recognize the GR hospital as a center of excellence, but it won't be done in time for Nate's transplant (sometime around March).

 Please pray for resolution to this mess.  We are praying his transplant can be done in GR, but also praying we can accept and brainstorm how we will do life if the transplant is done elsewhere.

-Stacy