I can remember to this day the phone call I received at work. I answered the phone, “This is Susan, how may I help you?” The person identified themselves as the emergency room of the hospital, “Is this Susan? Is your husband Michael?”. I answered “yes” and then the next words rocked my world, “your presence is required at the emergency room”, and I sat down quickly. What, what did you just say to me? They would not disclose what had happened, or whether my husband was dead or alive, just that my presence was required. When I arrived at the emergency room, they quickly brought me back without telling me anything. When they opened the door I saw my husband, bloody, dirty and hooked up to a ton of monitors. He was not dead, thank God, but they didn’t know if he had broken his back, neck or both. After a CAT scan it was a C-4 neck fracture. A halo and one year to heal, followed by 3 years of disability and retraining. That year was 1986. Doctors said he was either dead or paralyzed when they saw his file, but we serve a great big awesome God and he was neither!
All this to preface that we were young, with two small boys, living paycheck to paycheck. We had bought our first home, had some credit card debt, and some school loans. You learn what a priority is quickly when you have a major trauma in your life. We learned how to live on much less very quickly. Later we went to a class called Financial Peace University (Dave Ramsey) and War on Debt (Dani Johnson). We learned to become debt free and never turned back. I can tell you that our health was fully altered due to the debilitating migraines my husband suffered that could not be stopped by medications but only with natural medicine, proper exercise, low glycemic eating, sleep, and essential oils. He now has one occasionally, a far cry from daily. This is why I became a holistic health coach to help others get where we are today. Do you want financial freedom? Time freedom? Do you want true health? You can find me at www.livinglifeholistic.com
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I saw this on the Quantico facebook page. My husband and I are living on base housing as I am active duty. I know that the financial benefits of not paying for housing will not last forever because I will be getting out in a few years or less. We have credit card debt that just won’t go away, although we have not added to it. We love to travel, but just cant seem to get financially on track. It is cause for most stress in our life.