Help Fund Primilla Lindemann's Medical Expenses
Hi, my name is Stephen Craig. My wife Kathy, and our dear friends Dave & Mary Gothi would like to share an opportunity to help an AMAZING couple Bradley & Taylor Lindemann and their SWEET daughter Primilla. The Lindemann’s mean so much to us and our Mercy Road Church family. PLEASE read their story below and consider helping them cover these unexpected expenses. Your generosity would be very appreciated. Also, please feel free to share this link as often as you’d like.
From Bradley & Taylor Lindemann:
Thank you for keeping our two-year-old daughter Primilla in your prayers. The love and support we have received these past couple weeks have been a true blessing. Over the last couple months, we noticed changes in habits from Primilla regarding her eating, drinking, and sleeping. Her appetite went way down, and she started only requesting drinks. She always seemed dehydrated and was even starting to wake up 3 - 4 times in the middle of the night requesting water. She was a toddler and we assumed it was just a phase but then we started noticing the frequency of urination start to pick up drastically. We were trying to potty train so as you can imagine it was not going well. She would pee so much at night; it would leak out of her diaper and soak her bed and clothes completely. We started waking ourselves up just to change her throughout the night, so we were not constantly having to change her sheets. Primilla had even started to vomit quite frequently. Usually after too many drinks or if she ate too much.
One afternoon in discussion with our neighbor, we conveyed worry and explained her symptoms. She used to be a nurse and brought up the fact that a lot of those symptoms were type 1 diabetes and suggested getting her tested. We made an appointment with her pediatrician that week. At her appointment, her blood sugar was 345. An average person’s blood sugar range is 80 - 120. Her doctor told us to immediately take her to Peyton Manning’s Children’s Hospital for further testing and evaluation. When we got there, Primilla’s blood sugar was at 436 and they prepped us for a diagnosis that our child did indeed have type 1 diabetes. We spent 3 days in the hospital. We met with her endocrinologist, diabetes educator and dietitian to learn everything we could about an auto immune disease we knew nothing about.
Our lifestyle, the way we eat and care for our daughter is an adjustment. We are taking it day by day but are going to have some hurdles financially. We are a part of Medi-Share which is a Christian Care Share ministry. This is not typical health insurance. We have been members since 2018 and Medi-Share has been great for our family due to the low monthly cost and good standing health overall as a family. How it works is we have an annual household portion that we cover annually until it is met. Once that annual household portion is met, we are eligible for sharing and therefore our bills get covered. We get great discounts on hospital visits, etc. St. Vincent’s is in our network. Our prescriptions get discounted but are not covered. Prims new diagnosis and all the equipment and insulin that comes with it, is going to be a lot we must cover out of pocket until we figure out another solution long term. With Prims hospital stay and all her prescriptions (insulins, needles, glucose monitor, test strips, ketone strips) we must cover around $5,000 out of pocket. The hospital stay bills are just starting to roll in, so we are not exactly sure on the number but that is what we are assuming currently.
We have been looking into discount programs through Eli Lilly regarding discounts on insulin and discounts through GoodRx. We are trying to get the most discounts as possible since a lot of the coverage for the next 6 months will be out of pocket for us. In 6 months, we may need to switch our insurance and drop from Medi-Share but we are still exploring options and trying to get an idea of monthly cost. Her insulin right now is $300 each for a two-month supply so $600 total. She gets a short-term acting insulin (Humalog) and long term (Basgalar).
We have her on a glucose monitor which has been a game changer to lower the amount of times we have to prick her each day. It is called a Libre Freestyle 2 and is kept on the back of her arm to let us know her blood sugar levels throughout the day without having to prick her fingers. This monitor last 7 - 14 days and costs $140 per month for two sensors. There are some discounts out there for it but we would still be paying around $100 a month out of pocket. There is DexCom6 which is the same type of monitoring system but connects to an app on our phones so we as parents can see her blood sugar anytime we want, no matter where she is. She attends a babysitter 2 times a week and we rely heavily on her grandmother for childcare as we both work full time throughout the week. This monitor is in the thousands per month and is not covered, so for now this is not an option, but we hope to get this in the future as she transitions back to childcare. We appreciate the opportunity to be able to send this letter in the hopes for any type of financial assistance. We love our community and friends so much and thank God He has placed the perfect people and church in our life as we go through this life change and try to care for our daughter as best we can.
Many Blessings,
Bradley & Taylor Lindemann
