Sherry DeBerry This is Me

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1. 1. Helping Hunter

   www.post-gazette.com/pg/04229/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/16/2004   Last Visited: 8/16/2004

   "She's humorous and she's got a good attitude all the time," Hunter's mother, Sherry DeBerry, said.
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   Hunter DeBerry, 8, relaxes in the waiting room at Children's Hospital with her mother, Sherry DeBerry, left, and grandmother, Sharon Wagner.
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   Sherry DeBerry said one doctor even suggested Hunter was faking the stomach aches to stay home from school.
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   "Nobody ever listened," DeBerry said.
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   Sherry DeBerry, a labor and delivery nurse at Preston Memorial Hospital in Kingwood, had just started her new job and was on her 90-day probation period without health insurance when Hunter was first diagnosed with Crohn's disease.
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   DeBerry worried that her daughter would not receive the care she needed because she lacked the funds to pay for Hunter's treatment.
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   DeBerry said the fund helped the family avoid having to take out a loan and possibly delay treatment.
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   Once DeBerry's insurance benefits went into effect, it was discovered that the plan would not cover Hunter's care in Pittsburgh because it was out-of-network. The family applied for the Children's Health Insurance Program in West Virginia, which alleviated much of the costs of her treatments at home. The DeBerrys still travel two hours to Pittsburgh for Hunter's appointments every three months.
   
   "If we wouldn't have gone through the [Free Care Fund]," DeBerry said, "I don't know what we would have done.

2. 2. Helping Hunter

   www.postgazette.com/pg/04229/3 - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/16/2004   Last Visited: 8/16/2004

   "She's humorous and she's got a good attitude all the time," Hunter's mother, Sherry DeBerry, said.
   ...
   Hunter DeBerry, 8, relaxes in the waiting room at Children's Hospital with her mother, Sherry DeBerry, left, and grandmother, Sharon Wagner.
   ...
   Sherry DeBerry said one doctor even suggested Hunter was faking the stomach aches to stay home from school.
   ...
   "Nobody ever listened," DeBerry said.
   ...
   Sherry DeBerry, a labor and delivery nurse at Preston Memorial Hospital in Kingwood, had just started her new job and was on her 90-day probation period without health insurance when Hunter was first diagnosed with Crohn's disease.
   ...
   DeBerry worried that her daughter would not receive the care she needed because she lacked the funds to pay for Hunter's treatment.
   ...
   DeBerry said the fund helped the family avoid having to take out a loan and possibly delay treatment.
   ...
   Once DeBerry's insurance benefits went into effect, it was discovered that the plan would not cover Hunter's care in Pittsburgh because it was out-of-network. The family applied for the Children's Health Insurance Program in West Virginia, which alleviated much of the costs of her treatments at home. The DeBerrys still travel two hours to Pittsburgh for Hunter's appointments every three months.
   
   "If we wouldn't have gone through the [Free Care Fund]," DeBerry said, "I don't know what we would have done.