Last Saturday we had our Monthly H&N support group meeting. The guest speaker was a woman from the State who handles patient care complaint investigation. She had taught nursing for many year and had quite a resume.

It was really quite informative and she stressed that we should appeal anything that our Insurance denies because over 90% of the time they will pay it on appeal if it is medically necessary and in California this should include medically necessary dental.

She pasted out info on how to contact 'Patient Advocacy'.

Next month are Cancer Nutritionist.

In two month we are have a Radiation Oncologist from the Scripps Clinic Cancer Center. I hope he is ready for one of our normal three hour Q&A sessions.


Don
TXN2bM0 Stage IVa SCC-Occult Primary
FNA 6/6/08-SCC in node<2cm
PET/CT 6/19/08-SCC in 2nd node<1cm
HiRes CT 6/21/08
Exploratory,Tonsillectomy(benign),Right SND 6/23/08
PEG 7/3/08-11/6/08
35 TomoTherapy 7/16/08-9/04/08 No Chemo
Clear PET/CT 11/15/08, 5/15/09, 5/28/10, 7/8/11