So this is the first day since last Friday that I actually felt well enough to go to work, and what happens?! Four kids (late teens, early 20s maybe) come into my workplace, ask to use the bathroom, distract me and steal my bank cards out of my purse.
Here’s another post for the personal finance and cancer bloggers out there. Now that chemo is done and all the bills are in, I have the final numbers. For 8 rounds of chemo (4 of adriamycin/cytoxan and 4 of taxol), the grand total was…drumroll…: $90,709.
That’s what the oncology office charged. The break down:
I’m constructing a timeline in the “about” section, and found this piece about my needle-core biopsy.
March 10, 2007
It was yesterday, and let’s just say that if the local anesthesia had actually worked it would have been fine, but it didn’t, and I ended up in so much pain 15 minutes afterwards on my way home [...]
I first started taking wellbutrin in mid-2006, because I had overwhelming fatigue. Go figure, I had cancer. (A fact which we wouldn’t discover until 8 months later, but enough about that. For now.) I told my HMO at the time that I wasn’t depressed, I just felt very tired. [...]
In some ways, life after chemo has the feeling of reborn. It is, most certainly, a second chance. Sometimes a day feels as long as a week and sometimes it feels like an hour. The ticker in the side bar is to help me keep track.
re: my fatigue a few days ago - turns out I was getting a cold! Yes, I do sound a little excited, don’t I? It’s just so nice to have something wrong that’s normal.
What an interesting time we live in. Turns out that there are specific genes that affect enzymes that metabolize drugs. And some drugs inhibit the enzymes. This is important for women taking tamoxifen, because if it’s not metabolized well then it has less protective value. For me, tamoxifen is supposed to increase [...]
8 rads down, 20 to go.
Beautiful day, and I’m tired, in a way that’s beyond tired. Pdx Lee Anne calls it “couch world.”
I’m so incredibly honored - my blog somehow made it into Rebel1in8′s “dialogue” list. Founder Jacqueline Skaggs writes, “The dialogues are a gathering of diverse voices unveiled by powerful bloggers. Their raw honest testimonies, rants and informative offerings often become the saving grace that affirms sanity and empowerment within the crazy, chaotic post diagnoses [...]
Good news, and bad (though minor, more of a whine), and more good.
First, the good: the whole radiation treatment process so far is a breeze compared to chemo. The bad:
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