I feel for you Chair, I've been there. My daughter broke her arm right above the elbow and knocked it out of place. She too had to be put under for them to set the bone. Long story short, all the bills came to 7 grand and no insurance and making so little as to be in the hole each month. All this because I wanted to get in on the ground floor of a new business that just had to make it big. Boy did I learn a hard lesson.
Anyway, I'm not sure how your bills are but we got a separate bill for her primary doctor, the surgery doctor, the hospital, the anesthesiologist, ect... We had to go to each business and let them know our situation and in most cases had to produce a pay stub to show how serious the situation really was. Most places either forgave part of the bill or set up a match payment or allowed small payments of as little as 10 or 20 dollars a month.
It was quite a humbling experience and it took us literally years to dig ourselves out of medical debt because of it. It was a life changing experience and we moved to another state to take a good job with good insurance and have taken great pains to never, ever, ever get ourselves into another situation like that again. Hard lesson.
Not sure if that’s any help or not but I hope you guys can recover quickly. Good luck.
