My children nursed me back to health after doctor's wrote me off for dead. It's supposed to cost about $100k-$250k annually to treat my condition conventionally.
My oldest has the same condition. Between the two of us, that's up to a half million dollars per year.
We were diagnosed over 18 years ago. You can conservatively guess that my kids have been worth at least $1.5 million to me, and potentially more than $9 million.
(That's just the dollar value saved on treatment. You can put no price on the improvement in quality of life that I got out of it.)
Right. Once you figure out there are more columns in the life-ledger than cash, decisions change. To the bafflement of folks that haven't figured it out yet.
