I am so happy that Bull is doing well, and that you are at peace with your final decision. In life we have to prioritize how we spend our money. Clearly this taught you that Bull is important enough to you to make him a priority financially. I hope the insurance works out, but if not, consider simply buying LESS STUFF. You may be doing this already, but right now our priority is sending both our children simultaneously to elite New Enlgand Colleges. This is a huge finanaical burden, but we believe it is important for our family. So we cut our budget in other ways. We eat out less. We cook nice dinners at home (from fresh unprocessed ingredients) in double servings so we have nice lunchs to pack for work the next day. We ride our bikes to work (no gas and its good for us too!), or car pool if the weather is too bad. We take less expensive vacations. Like, we visited our kids at school last week, but stayed in our daughter's dorm room instead of a hotel. I lost a lot of weight recently so I have had to replace my wardrobe, but I am limiting the amount of clothes I buy to a small number of pieces that I love and are on sale/coupon, and I do laundry more frequently. Just last night the temptation to buy another cycling jacket hit, and I said, no, I can layer under the one I have for colder weather riding and still be fine.

There is a tremendous pressure in our society culture to consume, so we just have to choose carefully what services and goods are most important to us, and we can have what is MOST important to us.

Warm wishes headed your way for Bull's continued recovery.