Before we left for the U.S., we had been told that the surgery had been scheduled to take place at the Nationwide Children's Hospital with a team of doctors coming over from The Ohio State University The James Cancer Center. When we got there on Wednesday, we received word that the Children's Hospital did not want to deal with us at all because we didn't have insurance. We were hoping to apply for Medicaid through Ohio and have our bills covered that way, but it wasn't certain that we would be accepted. Living in Albania, we didn't have any U.S. insurance plan. When we heard this, we really wondered what our Father God would do!! We had ALL come all that way only to be told that it wasn't going to happen. Our scheduled CAT scan at the Children's Hospital the day after we arrived didn't take place and instead we waited for our first appointment at the James Cancer Center with Dr. Matthew Old, who was to be Elsa's surgeon, not knowing what would happen. While we waited and rested, we tried to get our Medicaid application passed, with no success. That night, though, we got a call from our amazing coordinator over at the James who told us that she had made a call to someone high up at the Children's Hospital explaining who we were and why we should be allowed to get treated anyway, and we were accepted. That was a huge burden lifted. On Friday morning at the James, we had a great visit and felt confident that the doctor had a good plan and Elsa was in experienced hands.
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