Travel, entertainment, housing, health care (think overseas for surgeries), assisted living, food, utilities, education, clothing, etc.

So between loans and credit cards she was able to have 3 surgeries, chemo/radiation treatments , and medicine.

I go to court and tell the judge that in the future I plan to be handicap after having a leg surgery.

For example, if you needed surgery, would you start medical school?

I have a day job in the health care field, and do real estate in my spare time.Landlording is not easy, but it's not brain surgery.

Not trying to belittle you, you can tell me the same thing as to me wanting to do brain surgery, I'm not qualified to do brain surgery.

I also learned that he was in a little bit of a financial struggle and was getting back surgery the very next week.

Being a realtor isn't brain surgery. 

It often requires rehabilitation or even plastic surgery, so the dollars associated with the insurance claims are higher.

My mention of being an attorney was related to putting the agreements together and avoiding SEC requirements, I think, at least in Mo. an attorney can perform brain surgery if he wants to, but securities sales is something even attorneys can not engage in without a license.I took an equity position as V mentioned to avoid the issues and that still is a tight rope walk when talking to potential investors.