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    Okay so there may or may not be a light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe it's an oncoming train, and maybe it's the sunlight, and maybe it's partly cloudy.

    All that light there at the end of the tunnel isn't reaching me here at the beginning of the tunnel. Here it is dark and damp and it smells pretty bad too. You have to hoard hospital pudding for desset night. (j/K) We are doing okay, I guess, I mean we have a nice house and everything like that is fine, but these stupid emergency expenses are killing me.

    If it isn't one thing it's another. Right now it's car repairs.

    Well, so we add that to our ever growing credit card debt. In July, when we reach PGY-2 status, we will get a raise ($200 a month ish). Holy Crap, did I just survive intern year?! Now comes the much more difficult PGY-2 year or so I hear.

    Anyway, in order to pull through and crawl our way, half-mangled through the tunnel, we were thinking of the Sun Trust Physician loan. Kris, I think you mentioned it before? Does anyone have good or bad experiences with this. They have an interst only option which looks very appealing right now. I'd like to pay off our credit cars and pay what I can on this loan.

    We do not have enough in home equity or anything of the sort for much better options. I am sick to death of calling the credit card companies to get lower rates, and switching, and balance transfers.

    I know we will have to avoid the trap of putting more expenses on the credit cards after they are paid.

    Ahhh, to sit on a big floating money cushion and not live month to month. You think by the time I'm 50?

    Wasn't I just the one saying things aren't so bleak? Like Kelly said, I guess I have to believe that the light is there.
    Heidi, PA-S1 - wife to an orthopaedic surgeon, mom to Ryan, 17, and Alexia, 11.



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    We are very pleased with our SunTrust loan. You pay interest only up through the entire first year out of practice and we were able to extend it to the first two. The interest rate has gone up a little with the rate increase, but it isn't too bad.

    This loan was a life saver for us during training.
    ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
    ~A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

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    • #3
      Thanks, I think we'll go for it!
      Heidi, PA-S1 - wife to an orthopaedic surgeon, mom to Ryan, 17, and Alexia, 11.


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      • #4
        Will you tell me more about it? We have SunTrust for our mortgage too-I have a hard time believing they will give us any more money given our debt to income ratio.
        Mom to three wild women.

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        • #5
          https://www.suntrust.com/portal/server. ... nerMode=2&

          Try that link.
          Heidi, PA-S1 - wife to an orthopaedic surgeon, mom to Ryan, 17, and Alexia, 11.


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          • #6
            We did it, too (right before I got laid off). It would have been perfect had my income continued, but once it didn't (and we chose for me to just stay home w/kids), we piled back on the credit cards. That said, if we'd never had it, we'd be in a LOT worse shape than we are now.

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            • #7
              But yikes, 13% interest on a fixed? That makes me a bit leery.
              Mom to three wild women.

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              • #8
                Wow...our interest is substantially less.
                ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
                ~A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

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                • #9
                  Well, it doesn't seem to matter now. There is a cap on educational debt, and if you exeed that because you had no choice but to go to a horribly overpriced medical school, then you aren't allowed to take out loans to help alleviate your credit card debt, that you accrued because you couldn't live on $500 a month for rent, and $50 a month per person for food, and all the other stupid, ludicrous formulas they used.

                  So, no climbing out of our debt hole yet. If only dh had the time to moonlight.
                  Heidi, PA-S1 - wife to an orthopaedic surgeon, mom to Ryan, 17, and Alexia, 11.


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                  • #10
                    I think they are thinking med students are single guys who live together 4 to a room and subsist on PBJ and generic soda. If you are only paying $250 for the top bunk, $500 is more than enough for housing

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