Help Rachael Jackie-Anne and Bishop

     Racahel and I have been married for 9 years. We didnt think we could have kids. We had basically accepted that as being a fact. We even took all of the classes and got our home certified to do foster care for mentally handicaped and at risk youth and adults.

   We were very suprised and happy when Rachael became pregnant in January. We were also very nervous due to the fact that financially we sometimes strugglle and we dont have medical insurance. The cost of medical insurance for the both of us is more then our cost of rent and car payment combined. We could not afford to have it live in our modest home and continue to eat. 
  We were and still are very grateful she got pregnant and Jackie-Anne made it here to be with us.  We tried to get on any medical or financial assitnce we could. However even though we are too poor to cover all of our bills we are too rich to recieve any assitance. We were told if we work less we could lower our income and then probably qualify. that would mean even less money to keep up on our bills and neither of us liked the thought of that.

  Rachael works full time at a art company and runs there warehouse. Bishop at the start of all of this was running a small but growing at home business. He has gone on to also be a bartender, evening cook and karaoke DJ to try and support the family and cover bills while Rachael was out of work and revcovering. 

  We looked at all different ways of child birth to see what was most cost effective and safe for mom and baby. We at the adivce of our amazing Doctor opted for a hospital birth and we are glad we did.

  Rachael planned on having a natural birth at the hopsital. We took a hypnobirthing class did everything we could to prepare. Racahels due date was Sepember 30th. She was induced at 41 weeks on October 10th. 

  She was induced at 915 am october 10th. Her water broke at 945 am. Around 9 pm that evening the pain became too much for her and she recieved and epidural. I am amazed at how strong my wife is.  By midnight she had the chills and her tempature spiked. They started IV antibiotics. Jackie-Anne started to not recover as well inbetween contratctions. She did stabelize after a while. 

  Around 7 am Racahel was fully dilated and pushing began.  Shortly after that her docotor arrived. It was discovered that Jackie-Anne had shifted and was now face up. She had also had a bowl movment in the womb. So we did what was best for the health of the baby and mother and Rachael had a c section. 
 
  Jackie-Anne had the cord wrapped around her neck. She had to have oxygen and be looked at imediatley by a specialist. She was rushed to the NICU.  After a few hours Rachael was finnaly able to hold her and she couls spend time in our room with us. 

  We were given the green light ot go home on Friday the 14th. As I was walking out of the hospital room the nurse stopped me and took me back to the room.  Jackie-Anne had something start growing in her blood culture right as we were about to leave. About an hour later Rachael started to get a high fever. 

 We were told that we could go home Sunday around 10 am. Rachael has been in and out of a fever state not long after we were told that. She has an infection around her c section. They have had to do many more tests since then. She is also alregic to penacilan and sulfer based medicines. So it has been a hard go to find the right antibiotics to help her. 

OrigInally we had planned for the hospital stay to be about 3 days and cost around $8,000 with the docotor care being around $3,000 on top of that. Rachael was planning on being back to work in about a months time. As you can probaly guess the bill is going to be a lot bigger now. We dont have a total yet because we are still in the hospital. It will be a week tomorrow. 

   Jackie-Anne and Rachael are still on antibiotics. They are trying a different kind that she wont be able to breast feed on right now. What was hopefully going to be a all natural birth has changed 100%. 

  For those of you who know me it is not like me to ask for help. I have a hard time admiting when I need it. Normally I am the one trying to rally the troops and help others through The Chive and Unlikely Angels. This time I cant deny it. We are in way over our heads. I am worried about the health of my wife and daughter. I am also worried about making our month to month bills and trying to not think about the final cost of our hospital stay. 

   Every little bit helps. As much as I hate to ask for money for myself I need to this time. Even if all you have to give is $1 I will be forever grateful. I hate to even be worried about financies right now but the bills keep coming even when life has dealt a hard blow. Even if you cant donate please share our go fund me in the hopes that someone you know might be able to help.