It's About Me

People like to give lip service. I sometimes wonder why, and then wind up just not caring. But if you’re going to offer to do something, then do it. Don’t just use lip service. Why say anything at all? Why not just say I’m sorry for your loss. Why go that extra step to say “…if there’s anything I can do…” and then trail the sentence off because you really can’t or won’t put more effort into finding something to do.

My momma died. We’ve had lots of offers of help. We’ve petitioned for the help we really need, and the one that my mother would want the most. Her biggest fear was to leave Bill penniless because of the medical bills she racked up while trying to save her own life. Insurance is worthless when it comes down to it, and they rarely pay for what they should. Most of the time they didn’t pay at all. My mother’s retirement and all of her life insurance will be used to pay off the medical bills and that was what she didn’t want.

She and Bill wanted to be able retire without worry, and when she got cancer she knew that Bill would get stuck with having to work the remainder of his natural life. The biggest help people could provide is to donate whatever their hearts deem appropriate and help pay off the medical bills that just keep rolling in. The ones that we have collected to date add up to over $60,000 and that’s not including the new items that the insurance company has decided to not pay.

If I had known how little people would really help, we could have had fund raisers prior to her death. She never would have permitted Bill to be left with this much debt. She would have fought to put together a fishing tournament or something to help him. She would have worked more, or anything to prevent Bill from worrying over this and to keep the creditors from hounding him day and night.

Is there something you can do? Yep. Donate some money to the medical bills. We would really appreciate it. http://www.sherryruslink.com

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