My friend Linda who had battled bad pneumonia and just didn't seem to be bouncing back just got wholloped!! Ovarian cancer. Don't know what stage. This is terrible! She was laid off and couldn't afford the COBRA health insurance payments.
Then the pneumonia hit in December with a week-long hospital stay.
This is NEVER, EVER good news.... by the time ovarian cancer is discovered it it usually stage 3 or worse.
If she beats the disease she will be buried under a MOUNTAIN of debt. W/o health coverage - I don't know what she and her boyfriend are going to do.
She is 59 years old.
Some vibes would be lovely right about now.
ETA: I guess I am getting to that age where these things are going to transpire. First my friend Bev in August, 2007, then my neighbor in 09, now THIS.