Postby Utwo » Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:12 am
Maggie Nell wrote:Three months is a reasonable request. When you apply for EI and maybe LTD to cover yourself
financially, the response might be "we can cover you for 8 weeks no longer".
I am not so sure about a few months of short term disability in case of Stage 1.
In my case, insurance company case worker (short term disability) started pushing me in about three weeks and I had to provide some substantiation (loss of blood, leak, infection).
I suspect that they have their internal guidelines based on Stage number.
The most important for me was to make sure that doctors office provided all the requested documents to an insurance company.
Do not forget that you have a right to push back!
I have no knowledge how EI works in this case.
2017Jul5Sandy, in what city/province do you live?
58 yo male at diagnosis: T1bN0M0, 0/15 nodes, low grade/moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma
03/2016 colonoscopy: 2 small polyps removed in left colon; CEA = 1.3
04/2016 colonoscopy: caecum sessile 3.5 cm polyp piecemeal removed with kind of clear margins
05/2016 "prophylactic" laparoscopic right hemicolectomy - bleeding, leak, infection
06/2017 CT scan, colonoscopy OK; CEA = 1.6
A lot of funny stuff discovered by CT scans in liver, kidney, lungs, arteries, gallbladder, lymph node, pancreas