My Friends

[CINDERS]

Hope the curve is an upward spiral to good health for your wife again Aragorn.

[Bob Womack]

Glad for the good news. Remind her that she's beautiful! I'll keep you guys in prayer.

Bob

[mnmkeller]

Most of us love to come home to our wife asking us to look at and feel their breasts but this kind of excitement is just a bit more special.

[Aragorn243]

Most of us love to come home to our wife asking us to look at and feel their breasts but this kind of excitement is just a bit more special.

It was and I was a little unsure of how to present that but figured you guys could handle it.

Today's adventure is dealing with insurance. We have Medishare which is not insurance anyway but we are happy with them. They won't pay if there is another funding source which they know is available in Medicaid. She is now on Medicaid. Has been since the 15th and it goes back 60 days. So Medishare is off the hook. But they keep sending these pending forms for bills and havent wiped out the annual household portion yet which they should because they stopped processing her bills. At the same time, they are asking us for information we already gave them. Again, I'm not upset with Medishare, they are doing what they are supposed to, it's just FRUSTRATING. They are killing trees and funding the US Postal service all by themselves with these pending notifications. I believe my monthly share (premium) is to be reduced as well.

I'm not worried about the bills, they will be paid for by one or the other, but I get irritated, she then gets upset which I can't do anything about. She still blames herself when she has nothing to do with it other than being the patient.

Fun.

[MSW2]

I once had a medical aid / insurance company try to get me fired from a job after an altercation with them using a company email address and phone. Misuse of IT infrastructure. So I can understand your frustration there. Especially with the stress from what you and your wife are currently going through added to the mix.

I am glad to hear your wife is better and that is happening as fast as it is. It could easily have been the other way around.

[CINDERS]

Only thing A is to get to the letter box and filter out those pending letters but keep on track with what they say and relate to your wife when she asks about why there are no pending letters just say that they must have worked it out and all is good. The last thing either of you need is that stress, the power of the mind can have critical outcomes to a patients well being so filtering letters it is, anyway if your wife is like mine or any ones wife that is, I'm not smart enough to out fox my wife at all. Getting busted time and again for well doin stoopid (stupid) stuff and like Winnie The Pooh with a finger in the honey jar when all the while deny deny deny......
Keep your heads up and enjoy each day one thing if I am feeling off I go into the lounge and read the large wall hanging we have "The Desiderata" it offers a perspective and for me up lift.

[Aragorn243]

Quick update. Emotionally she's up and down. Chemo is making a mess of her body. It is also destroying the tumor which is almost gone to the touch now after five treatments. It's something new each week however. Magnesium deficiency, indigestion, now blood in her urine. It has her on pins and needles when she isn't sleeping. She does a lot of that. Seven more weeks of this chemo.

[Ovidio]

C'mon Steve!!! We keep up the prayers!

[bob q]

As someone who has gone through chemo twice I can tell her even though it does not feel like it , she will live through it . With chemo you are basically poisoned with a 95% fatal dose . The side effects are really bad , and many . But as I was told , the alternative is worse . She will have some of the side effects for the rest of her life , but she will have a life . It really messes up your sense of taste , but the up side to that is you will end up liking things you used to hate . The count down with the doses is bad , each week just when you just start to feel a little better they get you again . Just remember , if you have not gone through it you really cant understand it . So bare with her .

[mnmkeller]

Ok Lance Armstrong was a total prick but his book did give an unglossed look at how brutal chemo is. I have never been through it myself so I can only say what a nurse told him...it will get better and there will be a time where this is a distant memory. That does not mean there will not be times where she will say she can't do it anymore but the truth is we are all more capable than we think we are.

Arnold himself once said all that matters is the next rep...and when we can minimize our life to that next rep we can achieve and endure the unbelievable.