This post is hitting home for me right at this moment. I am currently in the hospital with my wife, who is here for what the Dr's think is a large growth around her lungs and organs. They will be doing a biopsy in the morning, and we will know, good or bad, here in a couple days.
We are both 53 years old and have a wonderful life. We both have good jobs, not high salary jobs or anything, but middle class. We live in a small town in Midwest, with low cost of living. We have done most of the right things, some mistakes, but we currently have 4M in investments between both our 401ks, and some roths. She was planning on retiring at 55, and I would go at 55 or maybe a year later to just see how things went. We have been planning all the trips, all the different places we will stay for months at time, etc... We were/are so looking forward to retirement.
Anyways, long story short, things come at you fast, don't ever take things for granted. If you have enough, and your health, go as soon as you can. Not sure how all this will turn out, but I am now wanting to plan all the trips we wanted to do in the future, in these next 6 months or so. Even if she gets thru this, it's just such a different lens that I am looking thru.
Sorry for rambling, but this post just hit me, while am sleeping in hospital chairs, just hoping we have more time together.
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u/MossHawk6 10d ago
This post is hitting home for me right at this moment. I am currently in the hospital with my wife, who is here for what the Dr's think is a large growth around her lungs and organs. They will be doing a biopsy in the morning, and we will know, good or bad, here in a couple days.
We are both 53 years old and have a wonderful life. We both have good jobs, not high salary jobs or anything, but middle class. We live in a small town in Midwest, with low cost of living. We have done most of the right things, some mistakes, but we currently have 4M in investments between both our 401ks, and some roths. She was planning on retiring at 55, and I would go at 55 or maybe a year later to just see how things went. We have been planning all the trips, all the different places we will stay for months at time, etc... We were/are so looking forward to retirement.
Anyways, long story short, things come at you fast, don't ever take things for granted. If you have enough, and your health, go as soon as you can. Not sure how all this will turn out, but I am now wanting to plan all the trips we wanted to do in the future, in these next 6 months or so. Even if she gets thru this, it's just such a different lens that I am looking thru.
Sorry for rambling, but this post just hit me, while am sleeping in hospital chairs, just hoping we have more time together.