My Wife is going in for surgery/cancer
- Money is secondary

I thought I would write this post for all of those people who get on this site and tell people to "pay their bills and stop complaining."

In the last few months, my wife Lisa has found out that she's got a 21cm tumor growing inside her. It's more than likely a large cyst, however, it could be cancer.

In that time I've been pretty freaked about the situation. I'm not ashamed to say it. I haven't been concentrating on my business and this site as much as I normally do.

The worry for my wife's health is huge, and its something that will be there until she has the operation and is recovering nicely. (Thank God for Canada's health system!)

It's at times like these that we some people coming on the site and talking about how they are having problems with collection agencies. They're not paying their bills and are getting hassled by bill collectors.

I'm not in debt, and I don't have bill collectors calling me, but I could see how this type of situation could cause a person to fall into these problems.

My wife has had to quit work in the last month, as she was preparing herself to have the tumor removed. This means that all of the bills fall onto my shoulders to pay. If we needed her income to pay credit cards and other debts then we would be in trouble right at the moment.

I guess I don't need to mention that my wife didn't didn't decide to have this 21cm tumor. It wasn't part of her financial plan to do the surgery and take time off of work.

The Economy is Bad - These things happen
Where as I believe that people should pay their bills as agreed to, bad things still happen to the economy and to individuals.

These days there are hundreds of thousands of lay offs in Canada. People are losing their jobs because of circumstances out of their control.

They may get behind on bill payments. The collectors might call.


The point is... bad things happen to people to hinder them making payments. It always makes me furious to have people come on this site and laugh at others because they fall into rough situations financially.

The people that say "pay your bills and stop complaining" obviously haven't gone through the traumatic experience of losing their job , or having a loved one take sick for a prolonged period.

I know that my wife's health will get better. I have the greatest confidence in the Canadian health system.

In the meantime.. I am going to work a few less hours in the next few weeks, and I am going to stay worried until my wife gets better. I dont' think I'll have any bill collectors calling me, however, It deepens my sympathy for those who are going through rough times in Canada.