7 points mooreds 42 minutes ago 5 comments
polski-g 23 minutes ago | parent
The cancer turned out to be more aggressive than was first surmised. Obviously, the insurance carrier was right to demand the aggressive, rather than "mild", chemotherapy.
stahtops 6 minutes ago | parent
I returned to an email from the company’s chief scientific officer. Will approve tomorrow per oncologist request, his email said. The next day, I received multiple emails from company executives, authorizing milder chemo and apologizing.
Milder chemo came and went. My body felt like it was filled with cement after infusions; my eyes could not stay open; but the hairs on my head grew longer, and there were no more boils in my throat making it impossible to swallow or speak.
I went into remission that fall, and set myself to moving beyond cancer while also beginning to process the changes it had wrought on my body, and the nearness of my brush with death.
mortar 11 minutes ago | parent
tekla 6 minutes ago | parent
Hell of a ragebait title.
Insurance would pay for standard care of an aggressive cancer, not for something that was much worse at prognosis.