I had
just picked up my wife from her care facility in our wheelchair accessible van for
an outing. She was sitting right next to me and I had to fake my emotions and
much of the conversation before pulling over. Stepping out of the van to
collect myself I asked that momentous question, “How long do I have to live?”
My nurse
practitioner would be the first to stonewall that question but I’ve long
forgiven her because well, I’m writing this today a year later because she was
raising the bar on her professional skills bringing screening and by default
early detection into annual physicals.
I earned
an Oscar in my opinion last year acting all through my fist 'last Christmas' and the holidays informing
no one of my health and concerns of dying. In fact with the exception of our
adult daughter I informed no one until after successful surgery almost three
months after the call.
Speaking
of screening and detection, just today I open a letter denying my upcoming rescheduled
CT scan - apparently it’s too soon. Two months ago my second follow up CT scan
was ‘inconclusive’ since I had a chest cold at the time.
Reading the letter I hear the lawyers and bean counters not the physicians. … my
insurance would have paid 100% had my rescheduled CT scan occurred before the
end of the year.
Follow
up CT scans are suggested every 4 months for the first two years following
treatment for lung cancer. Due to a good old common cold I’ve only had one readable
scan in 9 months since surgery.
Unless I
win a lottery I can't see many more 'suggested' CT scans in my future, I am
still paying off 2012 deductibles.
One year
ago my question was “how long do I have to live”.
One year
later the question is about money.
Whatever, there are no answers tonight. It’s time to celebrate my first lung cancerversary and
raise a cupcake to that original X-ray and encircled “suspicious nodular density.
"Hasta la vista, baby!”
.jpg "first cancerversary")
Caregivingly Yours, MS Caregiver @ http://caregivinglyyours.blogspot.com/
My Lung Cancer Odyssey @ http://lung-cancer-survivor.blogspot.com/
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