The medical bills are starting to trickle in and I've been getting notifications from my insurance company on other bills that they have processed. Let me just pause right here to publicly thank my employer, SPIE, for offering such amazing health insurance!! I've already met my deductible for the year, so as long as everything is approved, it should be paid at 100%. (fingers crossed)In perusing the Explanation of Benefits pages, I start adding up the charges for my first month of chemo treatments (2 total, plus 2 of those Neulasta shots that were used to keep my white blood cells from plummeting too far). Grand total just for that? Over $20,000! Are you kidding me? Doubling that will get us to the end of February and I still have 3 more months of weekly sessions to go!
So far, I'm feeling pretty good on the Taxol treatments. My next infusion (#2 of 12) is tomorrow. I still feel fatigued when I try to exert myself, but the dreaded nausea is gone. Thank you Lord! I actually felt good enough (ha!) to get up at 5am yesterday and get to my 5:30am CrossFit class. I hadn't been to that group since January 3rd and if was wonderful to see the folks again, though my performance was definitely humbling. The strength and stamina of old were gone - replaced with a weak, winded shadow of my former self. But even though I only did half the workout, it still felt great to be back. And the ridiculously sore muscles I feel today just make me smile.
