Into the Final Count Down

Posted by Roie R. Black on Mon 14 April 2008

Hi everyone!

We are in the final countdown - YEAH! Eight more sessions to go! It is getting a bit harder now, since everything hurts in the area getting radiation, but it is nowhere as bad as some folks seem to get, so I count my blessings every day! Cheryl will be getting a short break for the next few weeks, since my sister is coming in from D.C. to help baby-sit me for a while.

I still believe in the Tooth Fairy, but that darned fairy owes me for a few teeth I lost in surgery. Maybe the AFLAC duck is picking up those duties, since we are getting money from him as a result of that surprise cancer policy we remembered we kept from several years ago. All we need to do is send in the bills and they send us money - how neat is that (go get yourself one of these if you can!)

Speaking of bills, in order to file with AFLAC, we need to send in a detailed bill. So, I got one for the radiation treatments I have been having. (Holy Healthcare, BatMan!) WOW! each treatment costs about $3400! That works out to about $280 per second of radiation plus a few targeting x-rays they need to take before they start each day. And we have 35 sets of those! YIKES! We do not know how much of this Blue Cross will be paying yet, but we have our fingers crossed!

I am back on the chemo treatments as well, and have just one more to go. They have added a few extra treatments to replenish minerals, and to augment my anti-nausea medicines, but everything will be over on that last day of radiation - one week from this next Wednesday! Then we switch gears and work on healing from all this mess! That could take anywhere from 6-8 weeks. Once we get past that time, they can do the PET scan and make sure all of the evil is gone. We are really looking forward to that scan!

Thanks again for all the well wishes and prayers. We could not get through this without our support system and you are all part of that, a gift we really appreciate!

Roie

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