I paid off my leg today!!! I just sealed the envelope on the last $61.38. Very excited. Once that check clears, I will own the whole contraption, free and clear. I just hope it doesn't break. If it breaks now, or if anything happens to my other knee, I will be screwed.
Let's not think about that right now. Let's look at the happy.
It's taken me two years to pay the last 20% after insurance from my last $6,000 socket fitting. Thank you, Next Step, for all your patience. I have not always paid on time, you see, though as Jan pointed out when we discussed this over the phone this morning, I have been paying for that little fact in interest.
No more. Let there be dancing in the streets -- mine -- and now that I have no health insurance, let my celebratory mood not jinx the further unimpeded functionality of my dancing equipment, organic or mechanical.
Congratulations! Now you own that baby free and clear! I'll send some positive, "don't-you-dare-break-now" vibes along your way.
Posted by: Gueuze | April 01, 2006 at 12:38 AM
Hooray!!
Posted by: Melissa | April 01, 2006 at 03:20 PM
Thank you! All good wishes gratefully accepted. :)
Posted by: Sara | April 02, 2006 at 11:37 AM
Yay! Goodie for you! I hope you can now start putting that dough towards something special! Not that a leg aint special, mind you.
You know what I mean.
Never in a million years did I think my future would include making "leg payments." hahaha I dont know about you, but sometimes it just cracks me up.
Congrats. XO.
Posted by: bonnie | April 04, 2006 at 08:53 PM
I know, Bonnie. It all gets very surreal sometimes.
Then I have a day like today when I can't stop sneezing because of hay fever, and it's so exactly like so many other days from way before the surreality began that it snaps me back to the realization that nothing substantive has changed, that I haven't changed, that the world is still the world, and I'm still sneezing in it.
Most people make house and car payments to the bank, whereas for the last two years I was making sick and dead cat payments to the veterinarian and fake leg payments to the prosthetist. We've each got our own set of complications.
And the flowers still bloom, thank goodness.
Posted by: Sara | April 12, 2006 at 11:15 AM
Yay for paid off things! I can't wait until the day I finally pay off my student loans.
Posted by: Jerilyn | April 14, 2006 at 01:14 AM
Ah, yes! I hope for that for you, as well. I hope you'll loudly publicize the day when it comes so I can help you celebrate! :)
Cheers!
Posted by: Sara | April 14, 2006 at 08:30 AM
I wish the US had free health services like they largely do in Australia.
Posted by: Jennifer Cascadia | May 14, 2006 at 03:06 AM