Ever wonder what $3,000 looks like?

[shenanigans]

I have Cancer... at 23. I have health insurance but I work part time while going to school.

then I made the biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest mistake I ever made in my life.

I took a semester off school. Gets me off my parents health insurance and got some health insurnace through my work, I knew the program wasn't that great, but figured it would cover my bases, well when it comes to it reading the fine print... I am screwed, like screwed in the ******* so majorly that I considered selling my car to pay for stuff, but selling my car would be pointless since it wouldn't even put a dent in my bills.

for nearly 23 years of my life, I have been responsibly covered by insurance used it a few times here and there... change companies, and 4 months, 23 days later find out I have cancer.


So if you guys don't have health insurance, definitely get it, if you do have it READ YOU POLICIES! ****, take it to a lawyer or some sort of expert and make sure its good.

I'm 23, have no degree, and I when this is done, I probably bought a Small house or a Viper, but I have no Small house or Viper, just the bill.

Best part, the weeks and weeks I have had off work... not even getting paid, because my job was part time, do to going to school at the same time.


I have learned my lesson, insurance is no thing to **** around with.

[shenanigans]

Originally posted by Mighty Thor:
I hope everything works out for you Eric.

3K, hmmm..go to Canada or Mexico and see if they have anything cheaper.

we were talking about India today...

[shenanigans]

Originally posted by 95Batmobile:
I'll inject it in your butt for you

Sounds like a party [img]graemlins/naughty.gif[/img]

[3.4 slow to go]

Originally posted by shenanigans:
thankyou sir, may I have another

[MTMike]

Originally posted by shenanigans:
I have Cancer... at 23. I have health insurance but I work part time while going to school.

I have learned my lesson, insurance is no thing to **** around with.

What form of cancer?

No kiding on the insurance. After seeing 1 bill for over $30k, and a new bill come in for $8,000 every other week for 16 weeks, I know how you feel. I was lucky and got covered for insurance literally 4 months before Dawn was diagnosed. If not for that we'd have had to file for bankruptcy for sure.

[camaro_speedemon]

Originally posted by shenanigans:
I have Cancer... at 23. I have health insurance but I work part time while going to school.

then I made the biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest mistake I ever made in my life.

I took a semester off school. Gets me off my parents health insurance and got some health insurnace through my work, I knew the program wasn't that great, but figured it would cover my bases, well when it comes to it reading the fine print... I am screwed, like screwed in the ******* so majorly that I considered selling my car to pay for stuff, but selling my car would be pointless since it wouldn't even put a dent in my bills.

for nearly 23 years of my life, I have been responsibly covered by insurance used it a few times here and there... change companies, and 4 months, 23 days later find out I have cancer.


So if you guys don't have health insurance, definitely get it, if you do have it READ YOU POLICIES! ****, take it to a lawyer or some sort of expert and make sure its good.

I'm 23, have no degree, and I when this is done, I probably bought a Small house or a Viper, but I have no Small house or Viper, just the bill.

Best part, the weeks and weeks I have had off work... not even getting paid, because my job was part time, do to going to school at the same time.


I have learned my lesson, insurance is no thing to **** around with.

:eek: Holy ****! I knew you were having some health problems, but I didn't know what was going on.

I'll keep you in my prayers man.

[loser]

Originally posted by camaro_speedemon:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by shenanigans:
I have Cancer... at 23. I have health insurance but I work part time while going to school.

then I made the biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest biggest mistake I ever made in my life.

I took a semester off school. Gets me off my parents health insurance and got some health insurnace through my work, I knew the program wasn't that great, but figured it would cover my bases, well when it comes to it reading the fine print... I am screwed, like screwed in the ******* so majorly that I considered selling my car to pay for stuff, but selling my car would be pointless since it wouldn't even put a dent in my bills.

for nearly 23 years of my life, I have been responsibly covered by insurance used it a few times here and there... change companies, and 4 months, 23 days later find out I have cancer.


So if you guys don't have health insurance, definitely get it, if you do have it READ YOU POLICIES! ****, take it to a lawyer or some sort of expert and make sure its good.

I'm 23, have no degree, and I when this is done, I probably bought a Small house or a Viper, but I have no Small house or Viper, just the bill.

Best part, the weeks and weeks I have had off work... not even getting paid, because my job was part time, do to going to school at the same time.


I have learned my lesson, insurance is no thing to **** around with.

:eek: Holy ****! I knew you were having some health problems, but I didn't know what was going on.

I'll keep you in my prayers man. </font>[/QUOTE]x2 i hope everything works out for ya man. get better

[shenanigans]

Got diagnosed with testicular cancer...

Same as Tom Greene and Lance Armstrong...

http://www.usrf.org/tomgreen.shtml

And if you haven't seen me state it before... make sure your health insurance is in order....

I come home from work on a friday night, change out of my suit, slap on some basketball shorts, throw on the TV, looking over some paperwork to start up a 401k since I just got a raise at work.(figured 23 and starting a 401k, and putting my raise and more into it is pretty responsible) adjust my nuts laying on the couch, notice a bump, investigate further, just feels wierd, no pain or anything. Check out webMD and stuff online get freaked out.


Next day see a walk in clinic($120), Doc checks it and reccomends I go to the ER right then, go to the ER, they do a ultrasound, and many other tests($640, $200). Then reccomend I see a urologist. Get signed up for surgery, ($11,5XX).

Then going more visits, with urologist, and oncologist(chemo doctor) looking into having another surgery, or chemotherapy. Tom Greene had the surgery, rough cost on that surgery is ($45,000) During that time I think I had roughly 8-12 blood test done, each ranging $200-300, think that is up to around $2,000

Still waiting on bills for CATscans, 4-5 Chest Xrays, ($80 a piece?)


Either chemotherapy or surgery, there are decent chances I may end up sterile for life. At the moment I am not interested in kids but hard to say if you will for the rest of your life. So got to go to a fertility clinic to sperm bank. Don't get excited, its nothing like TV. It cost about $1,200. YOu are giving basically a urine cup, and they put you in a bathroom at a normal looking doctor's office. Nothing to "stimulate" ya. In fact, the nurses were quite ugly at that clinic, had to think back to some of the other hot nurses.


I started chemo theraopy on Monday. I had a surgical port installed, had to be knocked out surgery for that, I am guesstimating, $3,000 in bills on that one.

I wake up, go to hospital, they hooke me up, and they pump 2,000-2,500 ml of drugs/fluids into my body a day. All in all I am there from like 10am to about 6:30 pm a day. On my back watching daytime TV most the time. Makes you feel like ***... towards the end of the week my blood pressure was getting up to like 170/120, do to so much fluid in my body. But they need to pump lots of fluids into you during chemo so you filter and pass it out through urine. If not the chemo will kill your kidneys and bladder. And being 23, don't want to deal with more health problems, or end up needing new kidneys at like 35 or some crap like that.


I will being going through 9 weeks of chemotherapy.

1 week on, 2 weeks off, for 3 rounds but recieving Bleomycin(type of chemo) every wednesday for the 9 weeks.

Chemotheropy kills all the "fast growing cells" in your body.

those are...

-cancer
-hair(gonna be going bald)
-red blood cells(my body is going to be under -oxygenated, so I always feel tired)
-white blood cells (I have to think like I have aids, I am way more prone to infection, have to try and avoid public places a bit, because I can get sick really easily and something like a bad flu/pnumonia can kill me. I have to worry about bacteria infections)
-My digestive tract. **** its like WWIII in my stomach, horrible horrible horrible horrible heartburn nauseia, when I feel "good" it compares to my worst hangovers

And since I am taking Bleomyacin, it sort of kills my lungs. I have to watch my breathing, my lung test came out perfect beforehand, 141% of normal even. But I need to keep an eye on it because several people have had complications and died because of the lung thing.

As for the chemotherapy thing, no clue what kind of costs are coming, but researching between $30,000-45,000

[camaro_speedemon]

Good luck man.

[JohnD.]

Don't worry about the cost of the bills. You get better and then send the hospital 10$ a month

[MTMike]

Man, I wish you the best of luck and the same courage my wife had to get through it.

You're in my thoughts & prayers man...