Blessings in Disguise

The end of October and early November brought some unexpected changes for us. We finally got around to doing our health exams for the adoption paper work and had some interesting results. We found out that I have hypothyroidism and will have to take a daily pill for the rest of my life. (I know, that sounds like a lot of fun.) In during research about hypothyroidism I discovered that a common side effect is infertility. That got me thinking about whether or not that could have been the underlying reason what none of the previous fertility treatments had worked.

Just a week before our health exams, Chris and I had a heart to heart conversation about the whole adoption thing and why he's been dragging his feet. He told me that he's been having this feeling that we'll have a baby of our own and that he just didn't feel right about adoption right now. Me being the nice person that I am told him (in not such a nice way) to suck it up and get going on the paperwork.

That next week Chris' employer informed him that they would be changing insurance providers and he had 5 days to get the paperwork turned in. I jokingly told him to find out if the new insurance had infertility benefits because it seems like no one ever covers it. After many phone calls back and forth with the HR people we found out they have some coverage but we couldn't confirm to what extent. To make a really long story short, in 2 days we had to decide whether we wanted to take a risk and hope they covered infertility, cancel my insurance and join his plan and lose the excellent benefits I already had. We went with our guts and picked to use his new insurance. As it turns out we picked right; they have excellent infertility coverage! What a blessing!! Now we can head back to the fertility doctor and pick back up where we left off.

I almost forgot to mention that Chris wasn't ever supposed to be on any insurance plan. They made a clerical error 6 month ago and added him to the insurance. Once they figured what had happened, out of the kindness of their hearts they left him on the plan. And during that 5 day window of adding and changing insurances, we were supposed to on a cruise celebrating our 8 year anniversary. What we thought was terrible luck with our vacation planning ended up being a blessing. It's crazy how many wonderful things happened in just a 2 week time period! It just goes to show that we may not see what God's plan is, but he sure does!