Roger (Caller from Kansas City)

Thank you for taking my call. So last year, our son had some really bad asthma, and then he underwent a procedure that ended him in the ICU for three weeks. He was in the ventilator, and he wasn't breathing on his own. He was heavily medicated.

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He's doing a lot better now, thank God. Awesome. He's a lot better, yeah. And during that three weeks, almost a month, I wasn't working, and we had some credit cards, so we kind of just started putting everything on those credit cards, and we kind of accumulated quite a bit of debt because of that situation that we had going on.

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We did a It's about like 11,000 plus from student loans that I recently got because I recently went back to school.

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The medical debt was actually covered by insurance.

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Uh, no, I think his insurance actually covered everything.

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Okay. The personal, like our, our, like, like our bills and like our food. We had other two other daughters that we, we, we didn't see for those three weeks.

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So you said about 11 K. Yeah. Yeah, about 11, $12,000. And I just, well, I just can't seem to get out of it. Like it just keeps seeing that just minimum payments and minimum payments. I'm just trying to see what we can do to make sure that gets out the way or we just get it out the way quicker.