CURED as of June 1st!!
Yep! Yep! It's true!
After dragging its feet since January...
my employer's insurance company has declared me to be cured!
No longer in need of disability pay...
and wait for it...
no longer terminally ill!!
Effective JUNE 1ST 2013!
Imagine my joy at reading this in their latest letters to me!
Wait till all my doctors hear! But imagine, after their initial elation over my cure fades, and they begin to think of all the time they've wasted in medical school, and in refining their professional skills over these many years...when all it really takes to cure a stage IV cancer patient...relatively quickly and permanently is the ability to type a letter.
Who knew!
The first letter to arrive heralding my cure, stated that the insurance company,
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company – in case you want to buy a policy and be cured too –
had determined, after making me and my doctors jump through hoops and send literally hundreds of pages of medical records...
that I had been approved for two months of long term disability pay for my terminal diagnosis. Those payments would begin on April 1 and end on May 31, 2013.
Hmmm, I thought...that must mean on June 1st, I will no longer be terminally ill...and therefore no longer disabled. Could it be?
As my excitement mounted, I opened the second letter from Reliance. This one was from the department handling the accelerated death claim on my life insurance policy. (In case you're not in the know about this...once you are stage IV, you are legally terminal, and can get up to 75% of the value of your life insurance before you actually die)
This letter confirmed what the other department had hinted. Evidently, since my doctor could not be 100% certain what my life expectancy is...and had estimated it to be more than one year...the insurance company came to the only logical conclusion possible and stated that the company “regrets to inform me that while my illness is serious, my death is not imminent enough to pay my claim at this time”!
Yay me!!
I'm gonna live forever!!
So friends...there we have it! Cured by the stroke of a pen! Woo hoo!
Of course, I've already begun the appeal process...but I thought you guys might get a giggle out of the story. Incredible!
Denise
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1/11-needle biopsy
2/11-Lumpectomy/axillary node dissection - Stage 3c, ER/PR-14/17 nodes
3/11 - Post-op staph infection,cellulitis, lymphedema,seroma,ARRRGH!
4/12/11-A/C x 4, then T/H x 4, H only,Q3 weeks
8/26/11 finished Taxol!!!
10/7/11 mastectomy/DIEP recon
11/11 radiation x28
1/12/12 1st CANCER-VERSARY!
1/12 Low EF/Herceptin "Holiday" :(
2/12 EF up - Back on Herceptin, heart meds
4/2/1212 surgery to repair separated incision from DIEP recon
6/8/12 Return to work :)
6/17/12 Fall, shatter wrist,surgery to repair/insert plate :(
7/10/12 last Herceptin
7/23/12 Brain Mets %$&#! 3cm and 1cm
8/10/12 Gamma knife surgery, LOTS of steroids;start H/Tykerb
8/23/12 Back to work
12/20/12 Injure back-3 weeks in wheel chair
1/12/13 2nd CANCER-VERSARY!
1/14/13 herniate disk in back - surgery to repair
1/27/13 Radiation necrosis - edema in brain - back on steroids - but not back to work - off balance, poor cordination in right arm
5/3/13 Start Avastin to shrink necrosis
5/10/13 begin weaning steroids
6/18/13 Brain MRI - Avastin seems to be working!
6/20/13 quarterly CT - chest, abdomen, pelvis - All Clear!
7/5/13 finally off steroids!!
7/7/13 joined the ranks of the CHEMO NINJAS I am now Tekuto Ki Ariku cancer assassin!
7/13/13 Symptoms return - back on steroids
7/26/13 Back on Avastin - try again!
8/26/13 Not ready to return to classroom yet :( But I CAN walk without holding onto things! :)
9/9/13 Brain MRI - fingers crossed
“ Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds you down or polishes you up is for you, and you alone, to decide. ” – Cavett Robert
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