Assistance for the Boehm's Pregnancy Emergency

Hi, this is Alicia and Skylar Boehm. On April 11th, Alicia was hospitalized with excruciating abdominal pain. Due to her having a high risk pregnancy, she was admitted. After ruling out appendicitis, ovarian torsion, and placental abruption, the diagnosis was a necrotizing uterine fibroid. Initially the doctors thought the pain would subside after 24 hours but the pain only grew worse and her condition continued to decline. Baby Boehm was being closely monitored and did not show any signs of distress.

Surgeons were brought in to discuss potentially removing the large fibroid, but the risk of preterm labor and seriously deficits was too high for the medical team. The blood flow to the fibroid continued to grow and so did the pain. It reached a point where surgery was not an option, due to the risk of both of their lives.

So the game plan is to manage pain and keep us under supervision in the hospital.

As of now, Alicia has been hospitalized for 5 days and is hopeful to be discharged tomorrow, 4/17. There will be continued talks about removing the fibroid after the baby is delivered.

During this stay, Alicia and Skylar have been out of work and Alicia has used all of her PTO. We do not know how much this hospital stay will cost us but we know we will need all of the help we can get.

We would appreciate any assistance we can get during this time of need. Sharing this around would help just as much as an actual donation.

We appreciate everybody's thoughts and prayers and will continue to update.

4/18 UPDATE: Alicia and Oliver are stable!

Baby Oliver is still doing well and has a strong heartbeat. Alicia is still in loads of pain but trying her hardest to get off of the pain medication. The OB stated the fibroid is one of the worst ones he has seen in his career and it will need to be surgically removed once Alicia has recovered from delivery. Vaginal delivery is our preferred birth plan but Cesarean may be necessary, only time will tell.

Our next appointment is in one month and we will have baby Oliver's updated growth/development measurements.

4/28 UPDATE: Thank you all for your help in sharing and donating to our GoFundMe me!!

I've been hesitant to share too much about what's been going on with my pregnancy medically, but I feel the need to share what has been one of the hardest parts of this pregnancy.

During my initial 8 week blood work, my A1C was elevated. Because I have a history of diabetes (Type 1 and Type 2 in my family) my provider decided to schedule my glucola test early in the pregnancy. Unfortunately, I failed it so significantly that I was immediately put on insulin and a continuous glucose monitor... At 9 weeks pregnant. Because I am pregnant and the baby is producing his own insulin, there is no way to definitively say if I have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, and we won't know for sure until after I deliver. My doctors said it is HIGHLY unlikely it is just gestational, I'll likely need to continue to be on insulin and monitoring. But, again, we won't know for sure.

Coming to terms with the fact that I have and may continue to have something that has plagued so much of my family and took away a few of them absolutely terrifies me. For myself and for Oliver.

So I basically went from 0-100 in 2.9 seconds and it is a lot of my mental and physical health. Lots of dietary/lifestyle changes needed to be made. But, we made them and things were going ok. I just knew I was not yet in the most insulin resistant part of my pregnancy and I knew it was coming soon.

Now, fast forward to today. I am 26 weeks and 3 days, I continued to eat my normal breakfast that has worked for me so far, and my blood glucose spiked higher than it ever has and I was actually symptomatic on that high, which I have never felt before. Even with my insulin and my restricted diet, I am still suffering from it.

To make matters worse, my insurance denied a prior authorization TODAY to have my insulin pump covered... They denied a pregnant woman her insulin pump coverage that she was already granted. Now, we have to go through the appeal process, which can be lengthy. I'm hoping things will get resolved quickly but, knowing what I know from working in pharmacy, it doesn't always go as quickly as we hope.

So my options are to either pay for the pumps I have been getting before, or switch to a long acting insulin, which is a category C drug (meaning it can be passed to the baby through the placenta) and I was to avoid that as much as I can.

So financially, that means I am going from my insulin pump being free, to it being $100 every 28 days. Which, don't get me wrong, I am thankful for it even being that price because the cash price is over $500. With all of my bills from the hospital coming due soon, and the even healthier and more quantity of food we need to buy to keep my glucose stable, I find this even more financially straining. So if you haven't yet, please consider donating or sharing our GoFundMe. I hate having to ask so much from you all, but unfortunately I am actually in need and very scared. This whole pregnancy has been one hurdle after another and I just need support. So please, give this a share.

Thank you