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<blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 5012115" data-attributes="member: 2020"><p>From Edena_of_Neith, to everyone:</p><p></p><p>Ten years ago, at the behest of my mother, and in agreement with her, I took out a $700,000 life insurance policy on her. At that time, mother was 72, and the policy was good for 10 years.</p><p></p><p>3 years later, when my family turned on mother, I had the perfect chance to collect.</p><p>Mother was alone, abandoned, in a filthy motel in Michigan, sick, without a car and nobody to help her. It was the dead of winter, and a winter blast was raging in Michigan. Mother was distraught on the phone, distraught and at the end of her wits.</p><p>I was in Florida. I drove from Florida to Michigan without stopping, 23 hours on the road. I went to that motel, I got my mother to a warm place, I spent my money to take her to safety and warmth and comfort. I got her out of that situation. I saved her life.</p><p></p><p>4 years after that, mother had a quadruple bypass. Afterwards, I was her only real caregiver.</p><p>Repeated trips to the hospital ER were necessary. I was the only one who knew how to drive on the freeway at this point. My parents had not done so in years. The stretch of I-75 between here and the hospital is deadly. The surface roads are insane.</p><p>One night, at 4 in the morning, mother came to me. She needed to go to the ER right then.</p><p>I had had only 30 minutes of sleep. Mother offered to let father drive. Father - who suffers from dementia - insisted on driving. Father was mostly asleep. It was the morning rush hour, to boot.</p><p>Had father driven, both he and mother would have crashed on those roads, and mother - in her shape - would have died. I would have collected the cash.</p><p>I got my butt up. I drove that 40 miles. I protected my mother.</p><p></p><p>I brought mother back from where the surgery sent her. I walked 250 miles with her. I forced her to breathe on the Breather. I talked her mind into coming back. I fought the Florida medical profession that wanted to keep her on drugs that would have made her a permanent vegetable. I won. Mother came back fully.</p><p></p><p>Now, the life insurance has just expired. Completely.</p><p>Guess what? I just threw away THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS. Gone. Zip. Over with!</p><p></p><p>I face a life of poverty now, with no job, unemployable, crippled, no family, no nothing. I don't expect to live very long, to be frank.</p><p></p><p>But I have earned the right to be called a Hero.</p><p></p><p>Edena_of_Neith</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Edena_of_Neith, post: 5012115, member: 2020"] From Edena_of_Neith, to everyone: Ten years ago, at the behest of my mother, and in agreement with her, I took out a $700,000 life insurance policy on her. At that time, mother was 72, and the policy was good for 10 years. 3 years later, when my family turned on mother, I had the perfect chance to collect. Mother was alone, abandoned, in a filthy motel in Michigan, sick, without a car and nobody to help her. It was the dead of winter, and a winter blast was raging in Michigan. Mother was distraught on the phone, distraught and at the end of her wits. I was in Florida. I drove from Florida to Michigan without stopping, 23 hours on the road. I went to that motel, I got my mother to a warm place, I spent my money to take her to safety and warmth and comfort. I got her out of that situation. I saved her life. 4 years after that, mother had a quadruple bypass. Afterwards, I was her only real caregiver. Repeated trips to the hospital ER were necessary. I was the only one who knew how to drive on the freeway at this point. My parents had not done so in years. The stretch of I-75 between here and the hospital is deadly. The surface roads are insane. One night, at 4 in the morning, mother came to me. She needed to go to the ER right then. I had had only 30 minutes of sleep. Mother offered to let father drive. Father - who suffers from dementia - insisted on driving. Father was mostly asleep. It was the morning rush hour, to boot. Had father driven, both he and mother would have crashed on those roads, and mother - in her shape - would have died. I would have collected the cash. I got my butt up. I drove that 40 miles. I protected my mother. I brought mother back from where the surgery sent her. I walked 250 miles with her. I forced her to breathe on the Breather. I talked her mind into coming back. I fought the Florida medical profession that wanted to keep her on drugs that would have made her a permanent vegetable. I won. Mother came back fully. Now, the life insurance has just expired. Completely. Guess what? I just threw away THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS. Gone. Zip. Over with! I face a life of poverty now, with no job, unemployable, crippled, no family, no nothing. I don't expect to live very long, to be frank. But I have earned the right to be called a Hero. Edena_of_Neith [/QUOTE]
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