One colleague told me just today that her mom suffered a fall just over the weekend, and now need an operation. How unfortunate. One could be healthy and walking one moment, and the next ... The colleague's mother was actually at home, after returning from lunch with her children. She was doing some housework when she fell. Probably her age (actually not very old, just 60-ish) contributed to the seriousness of the fall. Was talking to colleague about medical bills and she said the operation will again set them back by few tens of thousands of dollars (the mom went for some other operation last year). Thankfully she has filial kids who would pool $$ together to pay for the medical fees. Imagine many other families who couldn't afford the $$ ..
Of course my mind started wondering about what will happen to me when I grow old. Really reminded me to plan & save for old age. There are always articles in the papers about retirement planning, about saving up for your medical bills in future etc. Just yesterday the papers (Invest Section) was talking about wholelife & term insurance. I always feel more depressed just reading and thinking about all these, coz I just felt so ill prepared ... am I sufficiently covered ? Do I have adequate $$ to feed myself when I'm old and jobless ? I always know I need to get my act together financially but I just dunno where to start. Was just talking to my financial planner recently, its true that as we age, the number of stressors in our lives increase .. we have so many more worries ... at one stage we were even comparing the amount of white hair we both have .. haha ...
Was online in the evening and learnt from Bee that she had a fall also over the weekend, and blacked-out. She got scratches on many parts of her body and even had some stitches near to her left eye. Was shocked to hear about her fall and we were just glad that there weren't anything major, mostly superficial cuts and stuff. Wishing her a speedy recovery!!
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