Days Following.......

Okay, I am back, took a few days, but I now have a moment to continue.

After the inital diagnosis, my husband wanted to return home, so we did, which was nice, since I had been spending the nights while he was in the hospital, exhausted and eating spagettios with meatballs, YUM!

After a few days we made our first visit for chemo. Let's see how do I begin such a crappy day? Oh yeah, the doctor decided since we had not reached our deductible yet, and Blue Cross was trying to say that it was possible a PRE-EXSISTING CONDITION!!! ( even though we had been in the hospital) we had to pay CASH for the first visit. Yup, $4500. So here we were ready to begin, and now we were told to pony up the money. We told him he was crazy, know what his advice was??? BEG, BORROW, or even STEAL the money.

Let me stop here and just say that healthcare is great, as long as nothing is wrong with you, and then when you need it, they will find every way to NOT have to pay. Makes you want to stay healthy huh? Believe you me, I was on the phone, faxing stuff, crying at stupid people, you name it I did it. It did pay off to do all that, and it took only about 2 weeks to get it straightened out. But still, the doctor was still a MAJOR ASS for making us cough up $4500 per visit. And yes, we did get our money back as I happily through the "approved" letter from the insurance company in the billers face.

So back to getting "cured". We have the first dosage of chemo, which consisted of a few hours hooked up to an IV in the docs office, and then another 48hrs hooked up at home. It was not pleasant for my husband or me. It was scary, he was just completely lethargic, and had some major blood loss due to the chemo, and where the tumor was. ( He insisted not going to the ER. DO NOT LISTEN to your sick hubbies ladies!!! Drag them there if you have to! You gut instinct is always right, their being a man is NOT!!!)

So this was life for the next 3 months, except for the blood loss, that was just the first time. We did get rid of the asshole doctor though. The one we have had since then is pretty good.

We had a PETscan after the treatment and found that none of the chemo had really helped, so we were on to the next round of chemos and radiation..........I'll save it for the next blog!