I Quit Work to Care for My Sick Husband. I Get Paid to Care for Him.

The final straw was a spell in the ICU following another severe episode.

The hospital staff taught me how to care for him. We spent the following two-and-a-half years struggling to get by financially and emotionally.

Money was tight because of the income cut. We didn’t qualify for anything more than Jesse’s Medicaid payment.

We downsized to a smaller continue reading …