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Originally Posted by raspberrytorte
Money is a sore spot for me. It always has been. We don't have any, so I can't go shopping. I just buy little, silly things, like cards for my husband, or little toys for my daughter, or magazines, or ingredients to make a scary amount of chocolate covered pretzels. (Just for some examples.)
All of our debt related to my MI is medical bills (including over three thousand from my last hospital stay and YES we have insurance!).
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I was like this too. When my husband was alive we had no extra money at all so I was never able to spend any. I would do things like dye my hair, cut it all off, paint my nails crazy colors, etc because I wanted to spend but couldn't.
For some reason now that he's gone I have more money than I ever had while we were together. I think he was the major spender in the relationship. Plus our bills were higher when he was alive. So even without his income I have a decent amount of money. Which is unfortunate because my last hypomania a couple of weeks ago had me spend about $1000 in clothes, toys for my son, and a new computer plus games for said computer. and now I barely use the computer.
But I also have massive medical debt from the last three years because I have a $4000 deductible before my insurance even pays for anything. So because of my hospitalizations in the last three years I've owed at least $12000 because of the deductible. Right now I owe $6000 to my IOP for last year's time plus this year's, and I have no idea what I owe the hospital. it's crazy.