I’m so close to paying this infernal credit card off. Only 3 or 4 months left. I’m so close to winning this race…

But something may cause me to stumble and fall before I can cross the finish line.

“What?”, you ask.  Sigh…….  Medical expenses.

I’ve not been feeling very well for the past few months, an acutely so in the past week or two.  I have an appointment to see a doctor and get some lab work done for my immediate concerns. The other ongoing health issues, I’m hoping will hold out until this Winter when I’ve had some time to save up some money.

I have a high-deductible HSA, which means I have to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket before any help kicks in. In a health care world where diagnostic blood tests can run over $3,000 (and often come back inconclusive), you can see why some of us ‘play chicken’ with our health. We put the doctor’s visits off  again and again and try to save money. We wait until the medical diagnosis is so severe that treatment costs more than all the money they we ‘saved’.

I really hope that this new issue resolves itself and that I can keep body and soul together until Winter or possibly Spring, when I’ll have the cash saved up to at least cover the deductible portion of any medical procedures that I will need…  There goes any hope of  saving up for a trip to go…anywhere.

Sigh. Why can’t things ever be simple?

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“Debtor’s prison is real, and opportunity cost is a bitch.” (DDSW)