We left for Emory expecting a long transfusion day. We came home with the best labs she’s had in months — and a stranger in a Starbucks line who did something almost nobody does: he asked if she was in line. “I was seen as a person,” she said. It was that kind of week. Also: a car running on fumes, a live wire we didn’t know was live, and a colony of bees we lost overnight. Sometimes the good week and the hard week are the same week.
What about people like us — people who are medically bankrupt?” One sentence from my wife changed how I understood a term I thought I already knew.
Getting in the door, staying alive once you’re through it, and the paperwork that follows you home. Three fights in one weekend, and only one of them ends in a letter instead of a discharge form.
Wife Wednesday · Episode 9 Waiting There’s a traffic light near our house that’s red 88% of the time. I’ve counted. It doesn’t matter what hour, what day, which of the three lights on the mile-and-a-half drive to the grocery store — something turns red on cue. Fifteen, twenty minutes, for a trip that should…
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Wife Wednesday — Adult Healthcare; In Action. Wife Wednesday · Episode 7 Adult Healthcare; In Action. Week two with a better system. A hard Monday, met with Grace — and the quiet proof that it was never better people. It’s a better system. Wednesday, July 8, 2026 · Paul Springfield Alright. We’ve had a full…
Wife Wednesday — What a Week (in the BEST Way) Wife Wednesday · Episode 6 What a Week (in the BEST Way) She had a good week. For her. The needle running the other way — real lift, real cost, and a system that finally planned ahead. Hope, hedged. Wednesday, July 1, 2026 · Paul…
Wife Wednesday — So Long and Thanks for the Fish Wife Wednesday · Episode 5 So Long and Thanks for the Fish Melody’s care closes one chapter and opens a better one. The people were never the problem — the system is. And that fight isn’t over. Wednesday, June 24, 2026 · Paul Springfield Visual…
Wife Wednesday: If Only There Was a Better Way… | Paul Springfield Paul Springfield ← Paul Unplugged Series Wife Wednesday · #WifeWednesday Episode 03 Patient Advocacy · Caregiving Paul Springfield · Lovejoy, Georgia · Wednesday If Only There Wasa Better Way… Three calls. Two trips. One predictable weekly need. And a solution so simple it…