I'm sorry about your dog. Sometimes it feels like you either have to happily pay for everything to try to fix what's wrong, when it requires paying (and not everything does, but yes, there comes a point where what works doesn't come free), or feel like a horrible person for not being able to do it.
I filed for bankruptcy and it was discharged last year. I'm out of debt for the moment, but my income hasn't gone up very much and I don't have any assets to sell off - this means whatever happens, I have to pay out of pocket for everything. If it comes down to a trip somewhere I want to take, and medical care for Sylvester, well - it's the medical care out of the savings, most likely. I don't take trips now or make any big purchases (not that I made that many before - I didn't get into debt by jetting to the Caribbean or putting a Mercedes in my driveway) because I worry about depleting my resources (I had to move earlier this year and that damn near knocked out what I'd managed to save in the past year - and I dropped $200 on tests and medication for Sylvester over the last week, which further depleted). Point is, I couldn't file for bankruptcy again for another 6 years - and I don't want to even then. So ... there are some mental financial issues at work here too. Every time I try something new for Sylvester, I sort of hold my breath and hope it works. Like this time!
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Date: 2011-09-28 05:06 am (UTC)I filed for bankruptcy and it was discharged last year. I'm out of debt for the moment, but my income hasn't gone up very much and I don't have any assets to sell off - this means whatever happens, I have to pay out of pocket for everything. If it comes down to a trip somewhere I want to take, and medical care for Sylvester, well - it's the medical care out of the savings, most likely. I don't take trips now or make any big purchases (not that I made that many before - I didn't get into debt by jetting to the Caribbean or putting a Mercedes in my driveway) because I worry about depleting my resources (I had to move earlier this year and that damn near knocked out what I'd managed to save in the past year - and I dropped $200 on tests and medication for Sylvester over the last week, which further depleted). Point is, I couldn't file for bankruptcy again for another 6 years - and I don't want to even then. So ... there are some mental financial issues at work here too. Every time I try something new for Sylvester, I sort of hold my breath and hope it works. Like this time!
Anyway. I understand.