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01-31-2007, 03:35 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Colorado
Posts: 131
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A little good news for me too!
Hey Angels -
I have a little good news too, but nothing to compare with the AWESOME news about StephN and Christine though. After fighting with my insurance company since September (they decided all of Lisa's issues were "pre-exisiting" and refusing and/or slow-paying - in the last month alone I have recieved bills from Cancer Center, Hospital, Testing facilities, etc for over $150,000.00 that they are demanding payment from me since insurance is refusing to pay!) they finally agreed to pay! When I spoke with them last night (had become a NIGHTLY routine) they had just finished processing and PAYING over 48 claims! Woo-Hoo!!
Love and Light
Mel
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Mel Gordon, Husband of Lisa Lowe - Queen of Love and Light and the bravest person I know!
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01-31-2007, 03:44 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Alaska
Posts: 2,018
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Angels
I'm glad to hear that you are out from under all that, Mel... and I'd bet a lot that if we only knew everything, Lisa found a way to handle that for you....
AlaskaAngel
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01-31-2007, 03:53 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: northshore suburb of chicago
Posts: 1,093
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That sure is a burden lifted off your shoulders. Thank goodness, thrilled for you. This is not what you want to have to deal with ever. So sorry you had to.
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~Rina~
Dx:3/06 had a lumpectomy April 19, 2006
Her2+ er/pr- Stage I Grade 3 tumor size 1.4 cm, node negative
AC 4 dense doses
34 radiation treatments including booster doses
receiving herceptin every 3 weeks since late August 2006 for 12 months
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01-31-2007, 05:35 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Acworth, GA
Posts: 2,104
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Mel,
Glad to hear that the insurance paid. The last thing you need is skyrocketing medical bills to pay.
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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01-31-2007, 05:44 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Posts: 1,516
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Mel...
AWESOME news. I used to a medical claim adjustor for Travelers insurance and YES, I know the hoops that are required to jump through...your agility paid off not to mention that angel on your shoulder. Take care and God bless.
Rhonda
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Rhonda
Dx 2/1/05, Stage 1, 0 nodes, Grade 3, ER/PR-, HER2+ (3.16 Fish)
2/7/05, Partial Mastectomy
5/18/05 Finished 6 rounds of dose dense TEC (Taxotere, Epirubicin and Cytoxan)
8/1/05 Finished 33 rads
8/18/05 Started Herceptin, every 3 weeks for a year (last one 8/10/06)
2/1/13...8 year Cancerversary and I am "perfect" (at least where cancer is concerned;)
" And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."- Abraham Lincoln
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01-31-2007, 08:40 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 312
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The uncertainty of who was paying for what definitely adds to the burden of cancer patients. Glad you got yours resolved. I just have a few thousand more that I am working on. And the mystery of who will pay continues test after test after test.
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Janet
Endometrial Cancer 2002
Mammogram 11/2004
Lumpectomy 12/2004
Stage 1, 9mm DCIS, grade 2, Her2+++, ER/PR negative
Refused A/C as recommened by two oncs.
35 treatments of radiation that ended March 4, 2005
Changed oncologists and began
Taxotere/Herceptin August 2005. Finished Herceptin July 2006
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