He had asked what documents would be required if a spouse became medically unable to manage an investment account.
The investment account was mine.
And it held a little over $640,000.
Money my mother had left me before Daniel and I were married.PART 3 – “She’s Not Thinking Clearly”
My cancer diagnosis came six months earlier.
I found blood where there shouldn’t have been any.
Then tests.
Scans.
More tests.
The words everyone fears.
Cancer.
The surgeon believed it was operable.
My prognosis was not hopeless.
Actually, once staging was complete, the doctors were cautiously optimistic.
But people hear the word cancer and often stop listening to everything after it.
Daniel did.
At first he was wonderful.
He took notes.
Made meals.
Sat beside me in waiting rooms.
Told everyone:
“We’re fighting this together.”
I believed him.
Then the bills began arriving.
Not catastrophic.
We had insurance.
But deductibles, time away from work, medications, home health, transportation—all of it added pressure.
