My husband and I filed Chapter 7 back in December of 2008 and were discharged in March of 2009. My husband had broke his foot just five days after our 341 meeting and was out of work due to this injury. He needed surgery and eventually physical therapy and recovered at the beginning of June of 2009. This injury was covered under an occupational accident policy he had.
Approximately 3-4 weeks before he thought he was going to go back to work, his throat swelled up really bad and was as hard as a rock. His voice was hoarse and he couldn't swallow or breathe or sleep right anymore. It was really scary to look at. Since we had no medical insurance, we went to the ER. Even the doctors there freaked out and didn't know what was wrong. To make a long story short, they did a needle biopsy on his thyroid and you guessed it. It was cancer. Apparently, a very rare one at that. He was diagnosed with primary thyroid lymphoma. According to the endocrinologist, there is only one case per 2 million people in the US who get this cancer every year. We literally had a better chance of winning the lottery. His doctor wrote up a case report on him.
The stress has been unreal. I mean, we really thought we were going to get our life on track and then, wham, before the dust settled, we get hit with the injury and now this. Life really started to seem unfair. All those payments to the credit cards trying to pay them off while doing without so many things. We will NEVER put unsecured creditors ahead of us again. Priorities are priorities now, and that's that.
Fast forward seven months after diagnosis. The good news in all of this mess is the scan after the chemotherapy is clean. Thank God!!! We also finally got the confirmation from the hospital that he has been approved for full charity care sponsorship. Now we can breathe a sigh of relief that the hospital won't be hounding us for payments that there is no way we could ever afford. The hospital bill alone was $95,000!
We are glad 2009 is behind us. We're crossing our fingers 2010 will be a much better year.
Approximately 3-4 weeks before he thought he was going to go back to work, his throat swelled up really bad and was as hard as a rock. His voice was hoarse and he couldn't swallow or breathe or sleep right anymore. It was really scary to look at. Since we had no medical insurance, we went to the ER. Even the doctors there freaked out and didn't know what was wrong. To make a long story short, they did a needle biopsy on his thyroid and you guessed it. It was cancer. Apparently, a very rare one at that. He was diagnosed with primary thyroid lymphoma. According to the endocrinologist, there is only one case per 2 million people in the US who get this cancer every year. We literally had a better chance of winning the lottery. His doctor wrote up a case report on him.
The stress has been unreal. I mean, we really thought we were going to get our life on track and then, wham, before the dust settled, we get hit with the injury and now this. Life really started to seem unfair. All those payments to the credit cards trying to pay them off while doing without so many things. We will NEVER put unsecured creditors ahead of us again. Priorities are priorities now, and that's that.
Fast forward seven months after diagnosis. The good news in all of this mess is the scan after the chemotherapy is clean. Thank God!!! We also finally got the confirmation from the hospital that he has been approved for full charity care sponsorship. Now we can breathe a sigh of relief that the hospital won't be hounding us for payments that there is no way we could ever afford. The hospital bill alone was $95,000!
We are glad 2009 is behind us. We're crossing our fingers 2010 will be a much better year.
(first 341 10/14/09, cont'd 341 
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