Not a big deal but....

**Cricketlegs** · 09-07-2008, 01:56 PM

My dh was in the hospital over news years for 3 days. We had about $18,000 of charges but insurance paid out well.

We ended up with about $2000 in hospital, doctor and lab bills to pay.

The hospital offered us a 60% deal after I had been making payments and that saved us about $400. All we had to do was pay $650 by the next month due date. We did that and saved the $400.

I then started making the hospital payment roll into the next larger bill(a medical DR snowball seperate from my debt snowball) and so forth but the entire time I made payments on every bill we had.

Monday I will mail off a check for $82.79. Our final payment of medical bills. I was paying $50 a month.

Now I can roll that $50 into my DEBT snowball or my savings account.

Feels good to see the medicals bills gone.

**cheapskate 49** · 09-07-2008, 03:35 PM

I'm glad for you that you've got some bills out of the way-that always feels good

**AmyBoz** · 09-07-2008, 03:38 PM

Ahh...what a nice feeling that must be!

**janelane** · 09-07-2008, 05:26 PM

Hey now, don't short change yourself, that IS a big deal! I think it's very important to celebrate the "little" things along the way in debt reduction. Yeah it's not a whole house paid off, lol, but it's important nonetheless. The big deal is it's one more definite step to financial freedom, right? So make it a big deal for yourselves and celebrate the conquering of the dr bills, you deserve it. That's hard work right there!

**3tomboys** · 09-07-2008, 07:31 PM

This is great news! It is so nice to see the rewards of your hard work!

**dianne9106** · 09-07-2008, 08:49 PM

That is awesome and every little truly helps!! I had a lot of hospital debt about 15 years ago and it was sooo painful to get through. Congratulations!!