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A Pound of Hope: The true story of heart-wrenching struggles for survival, devastating financial loss, and the power of hope that comes with extremely premature babies
Michele Munro Kemper
Paperback. PostScript Publication 2010-05-11.
ISBN 9780615354033
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The micro-preemie twins were born nearly four months premature at 25 weeks gestation. They weighed just over one pound. Imagine that, the same as six sticks of butter. The babies will spend nearly six months in intensive care at the cost of over $2.1 million dollars. They fought the debilitating effects of extreme prematurity; including brain bleeds, chronic lung disease and sepsis. Join this family on a roller-coaster ride of from emergency delivery, life-threatening crises piling up hour-by-hour, and the joy of winning the fight for survival. The twins will survive but the family will be financially destitute. The typical expense for a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) stay is $500, 000 for a premature baby -- and $1, 000, 000 for a micro-preemie. Some families are helped by Medicaid, but if the family has income above poverty level, or has medical insurance, there is no federal financial help. The national debate on healthcare is silent on catastrophic medical costs. What happens to our country's social structure when a family with medically fragile children must be forced into bankruptcy in order to care for that child. This true story will take you behind the scenes of the medical miracles and the devastating financial costs of an extremely premature baby
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