Some of you may remember me from my few posts in late March/early April. We had our creditors meeting on 4/6/12 and it went well. My husband had just started a new job after being laid off for 4 months and we were on our way to our fresh start and finally we both had some peace.
Literally, less than one week after our creditors meeting my husband started having swelling in his legs and stomach. He hadn't felt 100% for a few months but he didn't have insurance and we just thought it was the flu or something. Well on 4/15/12 he was diagnosed with Lymphoma at age 35. He was admitted to the hospital in our town and then transferred to OHSU which is in Portland Oregon the next day. He spent 2.5 weeks there and was finally diagnosed with highly aggressive Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma, stage 4. His liver and bone marrow were completely taken over by lymphoma.
Had we not got him to the doctor he probably would have died that week. His body was shutting down and had been slowly for months we later found out. He is now home and we go to OHSU for inpatient chemo every three weeks for 5 days. He can't work now and I have lost 1 week of work per month to transport him three hours away each way and stay at the hospital with him.
Literally within 3 weeks of our creditors meeting we have accumulated $250,000 in medical bills because he didn't have insurance. We had to buy him a FMIP (through Blue Cross) plan which accepts people with serious medical conditions without preexisting clauses. It is $437 per month. We are now financially worse off than we were prior to filing chapter 7 but honestly I don't care about a penny of it, I just want my husband to recover and make it through this.
We put our banko on the back burner obviously for the last two months and today I got notice we were discharged. Now the trustee just has to pay out the $2500 he got from us to our state and federal taxes and our case should close.
I know this was long winded but there were some of you that were so helpful and private messaged me when I was so nervous about the creditor's meeting and I wanted to let you know I didn't just bail from the board and ignore your messages.
I hope everyone is doing well in their chapter 7 process!
Literally, less than one week after our creditors meeting my husband started having swelling in his legs and stomach. He hadn't felt 100% for a few months but he didn't have insurance and we just thought it was the flu or something. Well on 4/15/12 he was diagnosed with Lymphoma at age 35. He was admitted to the hospital in our town and then transferred to OHSU which is in Portland Oregon the next day. He spent 2.5 weeks there and was finally diagnosed with highly aggressive Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma, stage 4. His liver and bone marrow were completely taken over by lymphoma.
Had we not got him to the doctor he probably would have died that week. His body was shutting down and had been slowly for months we later found out. He is now home and we go to OHSU for inpatient chemo every three weeks for 5 days. He can't work now and I have lost 1 week of work per month to transport him three hours away each way and stay at the hospital with him.
Literally within 3 weeks of our creditors meeting we have accumulated $250,000 in medical bills because he didn't have insurance. We had to buy him a FMIP (through Blue Cross) plan which accepts people with serious medical conditions without preexisting clauses. It is $437 per month. We are now financially worse off than we were prior to filing chapter 7 but honestly I don't care about a penny of it, I just want my husband to recover and make it through this.
We put our banko on the back burner obviously for the last two months and today I got notice we were discharged. Now the trustee just has to pay out the $2500 he got from us to our state and federal taxes and our case should close.
I know this was long winded but there were some of you that were so helpful and private messaged me when I was so nervous about the creditor's meeting and I wanted to let you know I didn't just bail from the board and ignore your messages.
I hope everyone is doing well in their chapter 7 process!
341 Meeting: September 2010
November 2010
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