 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Crystal,
I would suggest you get life insurance before your visit. You can always cancel it but in the unlikely event it is cancer, you won't be able to get it once it is diagnosed (for several years, at least). Ditto on LTD insurance, too. I didn't believe it could happen to me and now that I am ready to go back to work, the company is out of business, no longer paying me short term disability and my LTD ends when the company folded. Better safe than sorry.
Good luck on your doctor visits and I hope it is good news!
Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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