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Originally Posted by RiCharlie
Well maybe your post will be an inspiration to others..seems to me you got hit at an awfully young age...but glad to hear you're on the road to recovery!
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Amen, Unknown 370Z...HOW did I miss your post ? You learned at an early age what some people NEVER learn...It is a curse and a blessing in one...
I am glad you are still here...I know the feeling..Again, i am so glad you are still with us..
I did not learn it until I was 50...I had the first TIA while my Parents were both Dying and I was buying a home..I survived it..But missed crucial last days with my Parents..Such is Life.
Then , I start to feel funny a year Later..Of course I have forgotten about my TIA, and I am full speed ahead, Fixing the Home, Promotion, blah, blah, blah..
I stay home from work due to a fever..Well it turns out I have a bad heart valve that is prone to Infection. My heart got infected to a point of having so much "vegitation", that it threw a piece into my right brain, paralyzing me in my Kitchen..
All I could think about was my Wife and my Cats...I know, what a dork..My cats.
I survived and it has been two years... I am on my bucket Lists, within reason. I have to leave my Wife set up for life, so I can't just blow the wad..
Oh , the moral to my Book for all that have not experienced near death..
A. Set up a Will and Trust. My Wife , as I was Dying, had to call a trust attorney to come to my death Bed, to set up my trust..Had I died in the Kitchen, she would have been screwed by Uncle Sam.. I did my trust and Will, on my Bed, with a Notary and Attorney in the Hospital..
B. If you are younger, begin your Portfolio now.. I was going to retire at 62 because I have planned a long time with all the Financial Fundamentals.
When i got blindsided in 2009, right after buying the Home, my Wife and I would be financially ruined..We are not due to long term planning..Even 10 years early in retirement, I will make it..
C. The obvious that Unknown370Z and Charlie and others talk about..There is no guarantee of the next second..let alone the next day.
