Waiting for Medicaid and getting too close to due date??
So my entire pregnancy I've really struggled to get insurance. I was living in Kansas and was kicked off Medicaid because I couldn't verify my address while I was homeless last year in Key West, Florida. Lost my food stamps, lost my medical etc. I moved back to Kansas and lived with my parents - and they ended up claiming me on taxes. I met my now boyfriend, and we ended up pregnant in November - found out in December when I began puking blood from puking so much (hormones) and ended up at the ER.
I was advised to go to an OB of course for prenatal care. I called every single one that was close enough to drive to - none would take me without an upfront cash copay. My boyfriend and I together have 4 children ages 3-13, one being mine and 3 his, making it nearly impossible to even make a living mostly due to the fact that his drug addict ex wife was pulling BS in hospitals and wracking up bills - where he ultimately paid 3 garnishments of $175 apiece every paycheck lowering his normal pay of $1270 to $600 after taxes. Needless to say, we were extremely poor after buying food and having enough diesel to drive him back and forth to work and drive the kids 14 Miles into town for school twice a day. We all lived at my parents house for several months - my small town had no jobs available no matter how hard I tried.
Which put me as a stay at home mom. I tried applying for assistance for months - to no avail. I became sick with pneumonia for 2 solid months and wracked up bills for antibiotics - being questioned all the while as to why I still had no prenatal care, and no insurance.
Months go by, and my daughter gets bigger. By 23 weeks we saved enough to have one ultrasound done for her, $210. It broke us pretty hard but it relieved us to find out we had a baby girl and she was healthy.
I take 2 prenatals a day - and eat as healthy as I can. We were supposed to have a transfer to Colorado but my boyfriend's work screwed him bad enough after being promoted to a better pay, that he was being paid $15 an hour to whack weeds with an idiot stick to humiliate him. They wanted him to quit so they didn't have to pay unemployment benefits - and it worked. We saved enough back to move to south east Texas - and guess what? I amazingly received Medicaid in Kansas a week after we moved. I was heartbroken needless to say.
Our trip down was nervewracking considering that the transmission casing broke on the flytail of the transmission, and we drove 457 miles in a Ford F250 diesel manual shift with our dog leash through the floorboards of the truck tied to the driver seat to get us to his mother's house. We amazingly made it with God's saving graces! This was only two weeks ago.
Now. For the final part. I broke a molar in my mouth and had to go to the ER to see what they could do. Without insurance, nothing. No dental office would take me, all day we went to every single one we could and to no avail. They won't do a thing for me being this pregnant without insurance. I was given antibiotics, and sent home after being drilled like crazy about being 35 weeks pregnant and no OB, no previous prenatal care. I'm far enough along nobody wants to see me.
My phone interview with HHSC in Texas for emergency Medicaid, foodstamps, and TANF was yesterday at 11 am where I waited very patiently...all day. For nobody to call me for my phone interview. I called an hour after I was scheduled to find out Wtf was going on - to be told that nothing can happen until they call me - post a "no show" to my case, or reschedule tomorrow. I'm heartbroken and we sincerely need the help. We have no diapers, we have no formula stacked up, we have three sets of clothes for our daughter that we were able to afford with one baby bottle, a blanket, mittens, a pacifier, hat, and that's it. I'm feeling so low right now, excited to meet our daughter but so very upset that they didn't care enough to call me back. What am I to do? HHSC assigned me this woman while I was at the ER after they found out I was 35 weeks pregnant at the time, and she texted me a list of doctors who might be able to take me, and a free pregnancy clinic. I'm so distrought I can't bear calling to hear that they won't take me without insurance, or I'm too far along to count anymore. We both are hunting for jobs, my boyfriend waiting for a call back on a correctional officer job, a chicken butchering job, a farm job, and a mechanic job - still waiting. Ice applied to 6 places, convenient stores, restaurants, and a donut place across the highway to no avail. What should we do? Should I just wait until I go into labor and take on more medical bills? Should I just face that I'm a complete failure and hope that they can go ahead and even help us out tomorrow? I've been crying for several hours wondering what's gonna happen, how am I going to face the harsh judgement of no OB, no care for our daughter even though we have fought and fought for medical assistance, how can I explain everything I've just typed to someone who doesn't want to give us the time nor day to even give us OB care because I'm obviously too far along now? I've been trying so HARD and now I'm so anxious to even go see or call the doctors down here just to be judged? I need some support and I need some helpful tips or answers. She is coming soon, and even WIC won't take us until we have Medicaid which by the way, I can't even show up as eligible in Texas until my case in Kansas shows that the case has been closed after THIS month - since we could only call after being approved a week after we made the big move down here.
I know it's a long story and a long post but I'm at the end of my rope with this country I can't stand it! I was born and raised here. Don't get my comment wrong, but I'm 22 years old and I really refuse to have a child In my boyfriends mother's home. Should I pray, and hope that everything has been okay (like I've been doing) and when labor begins to just go to the emergency room and deliver my daughter? Please help!
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