I hope you and smnallsteps get good news and that it will be something easy to solve for her.
Health can lead to wealth, there is no doubt in my mind about that at all. A healthy person has many more job opportunities than a person who is not so healthy. Prior to my getting real sick, I looked at my job as something if needed I could walk away from, because there was always a need for people to do manual labor. While I was healthy that was a choice I could have, when my health started to fail, that pretty much went out the door. I could no longer afford to lose my job, and go dig ditches or any other manual labor.
I was fortunate in that I was able to keep my job until retirement, even with my illness, it was a struggle, but all those saved up sick days helped a lot.
Unfortunately not yet. Is staying in hospital likely the next few days.
This is the problem - at some point, flipping burgers is impossible. And, that is generally when even that kind of money matters.
Gads, I feel for smallsteps. I hate it when I have to stay in the hospital even if it is just an overnight "we need to watch you", type stay.