Local Man Signs Up For Army To Get Wife Health Coverage

Local Man Signs Up For Army To Get Wife Health Coverage: Wife Battling Ovarian Cancer | ABC WISN

With Bill now gone at basic training, Michelle and her doctor want other women to know that 70 percent of ovarian cancer patients have Stage 3 cancer before they get diagnosed because the symptoms are so subtle -- like bloating and feeling full quickly after eating.

A local man with no job and no health insurance enlists in the Army, for the love of his wife.

Bill and Michelle Caudle of Watertown were high school sweethearts. When Michelle was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, at least they had health insurance through the company where Bill had worked for 20 years. But last spring, that company shut down, and Bill scrambled for months to find a new job.

"It seemed like he put in a resume at some local plants and then the next thing you know they're eliminating a shift, or they just laid off workers," said Michelle Caudle.

After Michelle's cancer came back twice, and the family's health insurance premiums tripled, twice. Bill ran out of options. At age 39, he decided that joining the Army was the only sure way to get insurance coverage for his wife. Michelle remembers the day at the military base this month, when she watched him leave, for four years. Read more.