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Help Rosalie James battle Spina Bifida and walk

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My husband and I have been married for three years and have a beautiful 17-month-old girl named Elizabeth. We are expecting another girl this September and have chosen to name her Rosalie. On May 5, 2020 at 19 weeks pregnant our world got turned upside down not only due to the financial hardship COVID-19 started a few months earlier, but our precious Rosalie was diagnosed with Spina Bifida. This was very difficult to absorb. Doctors gave us three options: 1) Terminate the pregnancy. 2) Fetal Surgery. 3) Surgery after birth.

We are Roman Catholics and could not bear the thought of killing an innocent life. God blessed us with another baby and we will love and accept her how she is given to us no matter what financial hardships we have. I am now 24 weeks pregnant  and Rosalie is growing at the rate she should be and has been moving her arms and legs.
Thankfully we were recommended to a very good doctor in Miami and  got approved to move forward with the fetal surgery.  I am terrified of this surgery, but it will help our daughter so I am putting my fears aside and thinking of her first. This surgery will reduce the fluid in her brain and hopefully repair/minimize her neural tube defect. We found out on 6/5 that the surgery will be in two weeks and we must pay for everything up front.  This is a large amount of money for us and we desperately need help. 
We have health insurance, but as usual in today’s world, it is horrible. So much money gets deducted from my paycheck every week, but yet we are hit with ridiculous medical bills. We can only pray that one day the government will go after these insurance companies that rob honest, hard working people. I currently have a full-time and part-time job and my husband works full-time. We struggle to juggle our schedules to make sure one of us can watch our daughter and even though we work so much, we have nowhere enough to pay for all these medical bills. The surgery alone will cost around $25,000. We have already spent $3,500 on doctor visits which we had to split on three credit cards. We will still need to go for several other visits, have tests performed, get billed for various hospital expenses, etc.
We have always worked very hard and not asked for any help. We would greatly appreciate your prayers for Rosalie and myself to make it through the surgery and birth. I hope I will be able to carry her as close to the due date as possible. Any donations would also be much appreciated to help us pay for these medical bills. We truly believe if you help someone in need, God repays you ten times more in numerous ways. Thank you for reading our story and God bless you.
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    Monique Regn-Szczesniak
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    Hollywood, FL

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