I Never meant to end up being a financial burden others….

Helping is not a hand-out…

I’d rather be working… Which I’ve done since the age of 13.

Now, at the age of 60, complex PTSD, Anxiety & Clinical Depression have been getting in the way of returning to my career..
If emotion surfaces in an interview, it’s over. And it’s been floundering on the surface for 3 years now..

I continue to cut a path to my next chapter. Everyday is another chance to take steps forward. So giving up is not in mind – I just don’t want to lose the home I bought for my wife 23 years ago..

Even when I fall down from the perpetual memories of my late wife passing..
I will always get back up..

Dying isn’t free in this country.
And I couldn’t get disability even though I was absolutely unable to work.
My late wife was denied as she hadn’t worked enough in the previous 5 years. But had 20 years of work history overall…

In the end, retirement savings paid for monthly cobra payments of approx. $2,000 a month. As well as numerous co-pays, and the final bill from Legacy for $48,000.

My late Wife’s illness drained us financially, and ultimately killed any of the security I had built for us over the decades.
Because of Covid unemployment periods, followed by my being forced in to being my wife’s sole care provider. And having to fight with Insurance reps. and Provider services to keep them medications dosages as her cancer was very aggressive, and progressed faster than they were paying attention.
For most of that year we spent a couple weeks a month in the hospital because they couldn’t manage her pain effectively.
And the hell the providers caused us, continued until her final day…

And then they sent me a $48,000 bill…!