Elove642 wrote:Thank you all for the welcome. Still waiting to get a scan scheduled, that is going to be my biggest issue, i am a control freak and I want this done Yesterday!
It seems that having the mass lower is not really a good thing, am I correct in that? Colon cancer seems a bit easier to treat than rectal? Maybe I’ve read too mich and am getting confused, please correct me if I’m wrong.
I am panicking a bit about finances, his job is very strenuous so he won’t be able to work once treatment starts. He does have disability insurance so that’s good even though it’s capped at $500 a week. we’ve just about reached our out of pocket max even though our insurance just started over in October. The reason being is I am pregnant. So with all the tests involved with that, the $2000 max out of pocket for family didn’t take long!
I am 43 and we tried for a long time to have a baby, we finally did it and I’m trying to remain as calm as possible, but it’s hard.
We also had a good nest egg saved but we close on a house next week and we put almost all of it down. Things all seem to happen at once, don’t they?
We will get through this, I just want to get it started.
My turn to talk !! I bought a new house 4 months before I was diagnosed with colon AND rectal cancer, that makes 2 ! After treatmentI can pay the house off . Your husbands employer cannot fire him while he goes to radiation, or chemo treatments . I went through it, and I still lift 10,000 lbs of paper a day being in the printing industry . Please excuse me, I retired yesterday, with no financial problems, and I never made much money either. Max out of pocket for me during treatment was about $30,000.00, for $600,000.00 treatment ! Have faith in the technology now available, as all hope is not lost.. my wife has been in your shoes ! By the way, I would love to have had a max out of pocket for $2,000.00 !