Gary:

She didn't qualify for Colorado Medical. In our state you have to have kids to qualify. Go figure. She's also been turned down for disability but she's finally getting strong enough to start looking for work again. In the meantime, my mom has been paying all of her bills. The state's indigent care program that she's on did pay for the surgery and radiation. The radiation oncologist told her that IMRT wouldn't work for her and I wonder if that was because of cost? They knew she wouldn't be paying. She has seen the hospital social worker and got some help through a program there that paid her rent for two months. The radiation oncologists wrote off part of the bill but she still owes about four thousand dollars to both them and her surgeon. They have been wonderful and are taking payments of about $30 per month. Not sure what will happen if the cancer has come back. She's seeing her doc on Thursday.