Do you ever look at someone at feel your heart just smile? Fill with pride and overflow into a big smile on your face? More than once today, that happened to me.
My husband is an amazing dad. Not only that, but he’s amazing with other people’s kids as well. He’s just a damn good man.
This morning my mom and Godmother were going on and on about how awesome Mike is – how he took care of me after my cancer surgeries, how no one ever worries about him “stepping up” to take care of me or the kids. How he is a good man.
I couldn’t agree more. My kids absolutely adore him. He’s always talking to them, teaching them, loving them. He has ways to get them to do things they don’t want to and laugh the whole time. They know about sports and airplanes and bodily functions; they’ve learned love and laughter and responsibility. There’s nothing he wouldn’t do for them. He’ll sit on the floor building Legos, throw a ball, tickle them until they can’t breathe. They’ll try strange new foods, read new books and jump higher because of him. One day, they will be amazing husbands and …
Amazing
The (Monetary) Costs of Melanoma
Ever since I was diagnosed with Melanoma back in July, the bills have been piling up. Fortunately, Mike has very good insurance through his company and our out of pocket expenses have been minimal – I think we may have spent more in $2 parking structure fees for each visit than total copays at this point. We are lucky.
The whole government health care reform is a touchy subject for a lot of people – but not for me. See, I believe that everyone deserves health care, and affordable care at that. The insurance companies are making a LOT of money, and since I’m on the side of health related work, I can tell you that the doctors don’t see squat compared to the insurance companies. Other countries are successful with it, and if we’re the “greatest country in the world”, why couldn’t it work for us?
Anyway, just for fun, I thought I’d share my bills with you. Remember, this is from diagnosis through physical therapy and everything in between. I can’t even imagine the costs if I had had to go through the interferon or chemo. Oh, and for fun, know that while I was going through all of this, …
