When is the right time???

how did she all of a sudden get chronic asthma???

Hey Barely there

Do you know what caused your wifes asthma?

I hope that she is doing well.

Vicki

you dont just get chronic asmatha,it develops over the years in some people,she is the small percentage that steroids dont work well but suffers all the sideeffects.we have tried everything including naturopaths and nothing works.She was born with asmatha,and no she isn't doing well,been in hospital last 8 days,her asmatha has just been getting worse lately,and doctors dont know what to do.So enjoy life and explore OZ.

I have severe asthma but not to that extent. Im lucky, the 2 steroids that I take do help and basically if I dont take them for 4 days straight...I will go through a ventolin a day, where an attack will just start for no reason........Give her a big hug and kiss for me....it really must suck when it gets that bad....(my asthma was caused from 2 collapsed lung when I was 8 due to a peanut...)

Best advice I have read on this forum for a long time.

We did not budge until the house was paid for and now we are saving three hundred dollars a week in rent.

If you go now with the scenario some here are promoting you may spend the rest of your life in caravan parks and sick to death of it.

I always pushed the debt free theory myself and now I reap the benefits. Plenty of impatient folk out there very sorry to find they are out on a limb.

Give the kids a bit of time yet to clear out and be independent proper. Last thing we need is having them around like the millstone.

Oh yeah., we are just turning sixty and have plenty of life left yet to get around and we do. We had been free for about seven years now and travelling is still a pastime and not a neccessity.

Owen

Yes, ditto!!!!!!!!
Excellent advice Glen.
We rent all our properties (12) and never to family.
Learnt the hard way.
Wonderful daughter but only 3 weeks rent in two years. Yep that is right, 3 weeks.
I should say in fairness to her, she worked on the farm every moment she could so we did not mind but gee whiz we did buy the house so she would not be paying rent down the drain as they say, but to us so it would eventually become hers anyhow being an only child.
She now stands on her own two feet and pays her way. Thank goodness. She is a daughter to be proud of and we are just that, very proud of her.

No way will we ever rent to her or any other family ever again though.
As for........ you may get sick and not live long enough to enjoy things, well on the other side of the coin you may live to be one hundred (lots do now days) and what will you have if you throw caution to the wind.

I retired at the ripe old age of 51 as did my husband and yes I became an extremely severe asthmatic and also have a very rare disease that only asthmatics get (Churg Strauss Vasculitis) but I still travel (50 weeks of the year) and live life to the fullest that I can.
Sure I have had to stop doing some things love but I have taken to doing other things and enjoy them instead.
You are only ever limited by your own self.
Some crippled people are Olympians.

I go outback as much as possible and I might add that is most of the time. There seems FOR ME to be less problems there than in the towns and cities with the smog, smoke and other infections that walk past me every day in those places.
So often when in a town I have shocking attacks.

Dust is the big factor in the outback and sure I suffer but not as much as if I stayed in towns ad hospitals as some think I should do.
I carry everything with me and lots and lots of it and keep in touch with both my family doctor and specialist and have things such as satellite phone etc....
We are only after all human and things will go wrong even with the people that think they are healthy. Heart problems could be lingering unknown to many and so on.

Live life, you only get one.

That is a good motto and our daughter, (only child) was born with Cystic Fibrosis and we were told she could not live to be more than ten.
Well she is 32 and living a good life and works, travels and does everything at a thousand revs a second and lives by that motto. She told me that one.
Live life, you only get one.

So do what yo have to, and do it well, regardless if you decide to stay home, travel or what ever.
Do it and do it as well as you can.
Don't think you could be dead in a week and give up, plan to live a good long life and enjoy it.

It is my opinion that it is not being a chicken to be cautious, it is wise.
Take the time to plan and work out what is best for you both and go with the decision but be prepared to re-adjust the plan from time to time as things change.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

How can any of us tell you what is best when we only know the info about you in the post above. We do not know your full circumstances.

Good luck with the planning and decision making.
Perhaps a good financial planner is another thing to think about investing in to help you get that plan into action.
We don't use one but that is just us, maybe you might wish to.
Does Glen do that or does he know of someone that can assist?

Anyhow I do wish you well, it is a huge decision and not one to be made lightly.

Cheers,
The Wattos.

"Wonderful daughter but only 3 weeks rent in two years. Yep that is right, 3 weeks."

Geez did you get 3 weeks rent?????????? How did you manage that. LOL we have four children and we have never received a cent in rent or board. We refused to take money from them as our home is theirs as well, they used their money wisely, have all got their own homes and good jobs, we are also very proud of each one of them.