Weighing in on Early Retirement

Tom and Mary Wilson (ages 55 and 53, respectively) know how to deal with adversity. She is in her fifth year of remission from breast cancer and he just learned last fall that he has early-stage leukemia. If managing their health issues weren't enough, now they are faced with an early-retirement offer from Tom's company, where he's worked for more than 30 years. If he doesn't take the offer, he faces the real possibility that he may be laid off anyway.