BIG NEWS FOR little capital D!

DUDE! dude! dude.

We just got a letter back from the insurance company about the letter we sent them a month ago.

What’s an insurance company? It’s a big ol’ building filled with money from people like us. We send it in with hopes that someday they’ll give a little bit of it back to us. Y’know, in case we need it.

Why’d we send them a letter in the first place? ‘Cause you have some tummy issues that would probably morph into awful pain for you if we didn’t get a little help.
That, and your prescription formula costs us $560 a month. We can barely afford that. So, we asked the insurance company to help us out with that cost.

Again, why’d you write the letter? Good question little capital D! Your formula is so expensive that we needed a little help. I mean, we’re going to have to pay for this formula for at least a year (according to your gastroenterologist), and that amount of money is more than most people pay for their kids’ food.

Why me? Little guy, I know there are people out there who have kids that suffer through worse than you, and I can only hope their insurance companies cover their medical bills. I think about all the sick people in the world and about what they have available as help, and I can’t help but hope their insurance companies (what with the big, cash-filled buildings and all) give a little back. There are even people who can’t afford to give the insurance company money in the first place, and I worry about what they do for their kids, or themselves. We don’t consider ourselves special, because we know there are others in need of this same help.

There are kids sicker than you, and there are kids who suffer through every day of their lives, and your mama and I don’t want that to become your life. We want to ensure you’re happy and healthy, and that’s we wrote that letter for you.

We found out yesterday that the insurance company took our letter to heart and will cover at least some of the cost for us.

This is out of the ordinary, and it’s completely welcome on our end — it means we can provide other things for you that we might not have been able to afford were we not given this aid.

We can’t give back much to anyone, but we can offer up the letter we wrote. We’ll try to make that letter available to anyone whose baby suffers from a milk protein allergy and which requires prescription formula, like the allergy that made you cry 75 hours a day and poop blood.

We hope it works for them.