Friday, February 12, 2010

Life's Little Surprises...

So as of yesterday, my hubby is on short term disability, without the short term disability pay. Since his shoulder surgery in January he has been off of work. He was only supposed to be off of work for a week. Well, that week turned into 5 months of no work and no pay! As the bread winner in the family, this became hard really fast! He has tried to go back to work twice now, and they won't let him return. He is a body shop tech, and they won't take the liability of him getting hurt. (which is understandable) His boss told him before he had the surgery that he could come back as soon as possible and they would put him on light duty status and work. Well, Human Resources of the company decided that wasn't a good idea and now he is without a job for the next 4 months. We wish we would have known that before he had the surgery and we would have waited.
It has been a very frustrating day or two in our house, but we are wondering what new surprises will be in store for us. As they always say, one door closes and another one opens.
Were hoping that other door opens soon! We are currently deciding on going back to school and getting our educations. We were already thinking of doing this, but i think the oppertunity came a lot sooner than expected or planned for that matter.
As you all know, Jack will be here in 2 and a half months. We are without insurance (we lost it with Jared not working), trying to get on government assistance. We hate doing this, but we are also grateful that they have programs for people out there that do need the assistance. We are hoping everything will fall into place soon.
It is crazy how life's little changes happen so sudden, and very unexpectedly. Last week, we had double coverage health insurance and thought Jared was going to return to work. Now it is my very small paychecks supporting our family, and a 30 foot Prowler camper trailer to live in.

I'm just grateful for wonderful family and friends that have been there for us the past little while. I don't know what we would do without them. They have helped buy us food, clothes for me (since we dont have money to buy anything for me being pregnant to fit in) and help us with all the other odd ended things that have come our way. We love you all!

1 comment:

  1. I'm listening cousin...My prayers are with you two and little Jack. Your an amazing person-and I'm impressed with your determination. Hang in there-it can only get better:)

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