I was watching a show on TLC about lottery winners. It put me into a dream state wondering what I would do if I suddenly had millions of dollars. What would I do?
- By a decent-size house with decent-sized rooms for the kids, a loaded therapy room for Hannah, an office for me and Daddy, and a playroom for Ethan and Abby. Oh yeah, can’t forget the pool, which was #1 on Ethan and Abigail’s “new house” wish list.
- Hire a house cleaning service to come once a week
- Get Abby an afternoon tutor one or two days a week to help with those areas that she is stubborn when I try to help her with.
- Pay off all our debt (probably goes without saying)
- Hire a nurse/nanny to help me with appointments and such and then use our insurance-paid nursing hours for night nursing so I could have a normal schedule.
- Load up Ethan and Abigail’s college funds
- Put together a research team to focus on what treatments that are available today could be used for Hannah to help buy us time and keep her comfortable (very similar to the SOAR project)
- Start our Little Miss Hannah non-profit foundation and focus whatever time I have left on making that successful.
The funny thing is that I wouldn’t buy expensive cars or mansions, go on fancy vacations, or anything exotic like that (although I do admit I would love to be able to just go shopping again for non-necessities!). I would focus on spending more quality time with my kids without the stress of worrying about what bill we are going to have to hold off on with Daddy’s next check.
- Not having to worry about cleaning, laundry, or bills…
- Not doing the night nursing anymore so I can focus on Hannah during the day and then the kids after school…
- Knowing that we would have someone medically competent around so Daddy and I can actually start having dates again…
- Having my own research group that I can work with directly to turn over every single leaf that may have something to help keep Hannah with us…
- Removing Daddy’s stress about being the sole income…
- Not having to rely on insurance and medicaid for getting those items that we know would help not only make it easier to take care of Hannah but would also help her develop more skills all around…
Ugh, I need to wake myself up ….
Maybe I should play the lottery. After all, look at the odds we hit with Hannah getting nGD!
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