Postby mpbser » Tue Jul 03, 2018 12:06 pm
>Were any of you diagnosed while uninsured?
Yes, my husband was. It was terrifying.
>Did the lack of insurance prevent you from going to a doctor when you knew something was wrong?
Yes, my husband did not take care of his health for a number of years leading up to his diagnosis for a number of reasons including not having health insurance.
>Did you end up in the emergency room and diagnosed at a later stage?
Yes, my husband went to Urgent Care which is connected to our local hospital. He was close to dying of congestive heart failure (a consequence of undiagnosed anemia caused by undiagnosed cancer) when he arrived and they wheeled him to the adjacent Emergency Room. He had to get his cardiovascular condition under control before having a colonoscopy which was the ER recommendation based on the constellation of symptoms. Two weeks later he had his colonoscopy at which point one tumor was detected, biopsied, and diagnosed as cancerous.
Wife 4/17 Dx age 45
5/17 LAR
Adenocarcinoma
low grade
1st primary T3 N2b M1a
Stage IVA
8/17 Sub-total colectomy
2nd primary 5.5 cm T1 N0
9 of 96 nodes
CEA: < 2.9
MSS
Lynch no; KRAS wild
Immunohistochemsistry Normal
Fall 2017 FOLFOX shrank the 1 met in liver
1/18 Liver left hepatectomy seg 4
5/18 CT clear
12/18 MRI 1 liver met
3/7/19 Resection & HAI
4/1/19 Folfiri & FUDR
5/13/19 HAI pump catheter dislodge, nearly bled to death
6-7 '19 5FU 4 cycles
NED