Tanya (Caller)

So I am about $100,000 in medical and credit card debt.

And I have a home that I have about $350,000 worth of equity in.

And I'm wondering what your advice would be if I should sell my home, which would require moving out of the area because in Central Oregon, you can't rebuy for that and pay off my debt.

Or if I should do the baby steps and stick this out for five years and try to work out of this.

Nope.

Nope.

My husband is home.

He did get hurt this winter and so he's been off of work for a couple of months.

He's just getting back to work.

No.

No.

We're small business owners so basically it

Yeah, we had no health insurance at the time, and we had no workers' comp or any kind of insurance to help us through, so our savings is gone.

And if I talk about it too much, I might start to cry.

It's scary now, and we're to the point.

where, um, so he just had a second surgery in May and May 2nd, and he's just been released to go back to work.

So today is his first job really working, um, back at what he does, which were a small painting contractors.

Um, and I have a small bookkeeping business, so he's back at work full time now.

And so this is the question is, um, but I don't know if we have the

if we're going to be able to fish out of this month by month, do I go start delivering pizzas and he go start working double jobs?