Critical Illness Insurance Can Take Away Some Of The Pain
The Evans were an average family.Amanda was the homemaker, Neil had a steady job driving for Stagecoach. They’d been wed for 16 years and had a daughter aged 9 and a son aged 4 and a lived in a semi in Bramhall in the North of England. They were thinking of going on holiday to Javer on the Costa Blanca at Christmas.
So life was steady and they were very happy. They had a lot of friends, mainly through the school that their children went to and a busy social life.
And unexpectedly things changed. Peter had been having regular headaches for the past two months but hadn’t thought much about it – certainly not to be absent from work to see the Doctor. Alice had given him a packet of paracetamol to take to work just in case it became much worse.
It was a Monday and the day started just like any other. Amanda was in her pyjamas in the kitchen making sandwiches for Joe to take to work. The little ones were at loggerheads as usual. Neil was in the bathroom shaving.
Then there was a tremendous thump. It wasn’t like an ornament falling on the floor. It was somehow ominous, like a big bag of coal falling. And it came from the bedroom.
Sophie’s heart fell. Somehow instinct told her something wasreally wrong, very very wrong. In a jiffy she was up the stairs and pressed to the bedroom door. It swung open a tiny bit and ceased. She pushed and pushed but something was prohibiting the door from opening further. She poked her head around the door and the blood oozed from her face. There was Richard frozen on the floor, crumpled up face down.
For a second she panicked. Then she shrieked with terror
It took 15 minutes for the ambulance to appear and about 4 more minutes for the Paramedics to diagnose that Joe had just had a stroke. Would he get better? To be honest he was seriously ill. The Consultant would give her more information at the hospital.
Richard did did recover. He had 5 lengthy months in the hospital followed by two more months at a expert rehabilitation centre. At first he was wheelchair bound but soon he began to walk some steps with the aid of a walking frame.
But at age 35 he would never be strong enough to work again.
Does this activate your worst fears?
Data shows that one in five men and 2 out of ten women have a serious illness before sixty to sixtyfive. Simon was unlucky to have had a stroke so young but life is a game of chance.
Peter’s stoke came out of the blue but hundreds of thousands of families do have medical insurance to providesupply financial assistance should something like this take place. It’s referred to as Critical Illness Insurance. This sortof insurance gives out a tax free lump sum if the insured person is diagnosed with a critical illness. A typical insured sum would be in the £120,000 to 250,000 pound – it’s for the insured to fix. (What denotes a “critical illness” is is outlined within the insurance documents but they usually cover heart attack, cancer and stroke and normally loads of other illnesses and conditions as well.)
Life Insurancecan’t help to take away the stroke but it could certainly make sure that financially, things were OK.