Christmas is coming early this year

Huge answer to prayers!!!!!!

We received a phone call today that started, "Mrs. Yount, Christmas is coming early this year." It was Tim from Blue Cross Blue Shield. He said the surgery was APPROVED!!!! Since when does an insurance company approve a $50k to $60k surgery in a matter of hours???? Tim said that someone from Lilly HR called yesterday and asked that BCBS review my case as quickly as possible.

So here's another twist to the story. I found out yesterday that there is a group of Lilly employees who advocate insurance cases. I sent an email to them and received a reply from a friend of mine in HR who was assigned to help. Out of nearly 40,000 employees, a friend of mine answered. Odds? I'm done figuring them.

My story is not a string of coincidences. It's a brilliant quilt of carefully designed events. Graduate school internship...Audiology degree...cochlear implant research...symptoms...Dr. Minor...Johns Hopkins...SCD...SCD patient in Martinsville...Dr. Ostrowski (graduate internship location)...Lilly HR...Blue Cross Blue Shield........................surgery...............recovery.

The plans of our lives are so colossal compared to the fleeting moments in which we exist. It's impossible for our tiny and short-sighted minds to string together all of the moments in order to understand the bigger picture. But on rare occasions, God gives us a glimpse at the quilt He's making and we see the pattern emerge. It doesn't happen very often but when it does, it's breathtaking.