<prompt> Human: So here is my long story short.My wife had two children in the last two years and was on bedrest for both of them. She lost her job and had to make several trips to the hospital to treat severe hydration. Along with her medications, visits and births, we racked up about 14,000 in medical debt in 2 years. Along with this, we also have a mortgage and 2 car payments.I work as a Correctional Officer. I am not rich, but make a living. We arent eating steak everything, and our dollar is stretched tighter than a rubber band, but we survive and are grateful.Last year, we decided wed had enough. We cut everything extraneous from our budget. No going out. No people over for dinner. No doing anything. We have paid off both of our cars about 8000 and about 9000 on the medical debt. One basically one job and three kids to support. We ate rice and beans forever. I am sick of rice and beans, but not as sick of them as I am of debt. We shop for clothes at Goodwill and get DVDs at the library. A big night out is getting a 6 pack of beer and a redbox movie.I just got doing 9! Overtimes in the last 2 weeks, because I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. An overtimeis basically a 16 hour work day, from 6am - 10pm. Another 4000 and we are out from under the debt! I am going to kill myself for another month I figure about 16 overtime shifts and we will be done with that. Going several days without seeing my wife and kids is hard, but I know it wont last forever.. At the end of the day, you have to be willing to put in the hard work, make the incredible sacrifice, and do something drastic in order to make a change in your life.Dont give in. Work your ass off.  <response>: Congratulations and thank you for being a positive role model to this community! 