We have a plan.
The past few days have been… on the upswing, depressing. Fil brought something rather crucial to my attention… that being health insurance for the baby. We really don’t have said health insurance, and to her knowledge, obtaining state insurance is incredibly difficult. At least, it was in Michigan.
Now… I took it upon myself to look up the state of assisted insurance in Texas. Since I will be a single mother, with a household income of either $0 or $1800, any child I have would qualify for CHIP. Which means paying a couple of dollars per DRs appointment, a couple of dollars per medication, etc. etc. Any of my children would qualify until they were 18, unless a better offer from my job came up.
We have been debating off and on whether or not to wait on children. With her experience, it’s very hard to get the state to help when you’re a single mother. They have that whole “where is the father? why can’t he pay for it?” thing. But from what I can tell, and what my roommate has told me, it’s relatively easy to get your child on a state insurance plan when there’s no father in the picture.
The fact is, Fil and I do NOT want to wait until I’m out of school and in a stable job, having been there long enough to obtain a nice insurance packet, hopefully a group plan to where I can add my children. I’ve done the math, that’s about 4 years. I don’t care about my age (I’ll be, what 23?) but I do care about Fil. I’ve said it over and over, I don’t want her to be tired and in her mid-30s with awful arthritis pain. She doesn’t want that either.
After looking up all that information on CHIP and relaying it to Fil, we’ve decided to put JT on CHIP and go forward with having a baby.
Yeah, you heard it. We have a definitive plan.
After Fil gets her surgery, she should be healed by May/June. Around that time we’ll be moving. So after we’ve moved in and are settled in our new place, we’re definitely going to start trying. Fil honestly looks relieved and excited, she’ll get the time to heal and then we can properly conceive. She can do all the daddy things, like put together the crib and proudly show the sonograms to people at work.
I’m not superstitious really, but I’d like to think that our luck is finally changing. I think, after all we’ve been through, a really shitty year, we deserve it.
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