Putting my health insurance to use...

jeepfrog · **Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:53 pm

I'll be keeping you in my prayers, Chip.

oddball · **Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:13 pm

STINGN wrote:

Jerry who was your doctor..my sisiters doctor was Dr. Broxstien, best ever

He really helped my sister until she went back to Kansas and decided to get treatment there and didn't make it

My doctor was a Greek - his name is Theodorakis. He is President of Surgical Training at the UofChicago. In his Lincoln Park (Lincoln Ave) office (he has 3 office locations), when you walk in, behind the receptionist are two huge blown-up framed covers from US News and World Report magazine. One cover had the top 10 cancer surgeons in the US, his face was one of the 10 on the cover - The other framed cover was the top 10 cancer hospitals in the US - which included the logo from the University of Chicago Hospital. The only hospital in Illinois to make the list. So I knew I was in the best hands possible.

Like I said earlier, I first went to see my wife's doctor at Edward Hospital in Naperville, and that surgeon was the one who told me this guy from UofC was the only guy who could help me.

Inc · **Posted:** Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:05 pm

Very glad to hear it was taken care of. Living with the risk of reoccurrence is so much better than not living at all.

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:20 pm

Dang man! That really sucks. Glad to see that it wasn't major in size and had spread.

Cancer is such the big equalizer in our lives. The hottest looking girl in my high school class and was still the hottest at my 20 yr reunion just died a couple months ago from Ovarian Cancer. She wasn't able to make it to the 25 yr reunion last year because of the cancer. No discrimination with cancer. You can live a perfectly clean and healthy life and still get it. Our odds are just increased with each bad habit we gave ourselves throughout life.

Boiler · **Posted:** Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:02 am

Well my brother in law was in insurance sales about 4 years ago for about a week...and my wife bought cancer policies from him. 20 bucks a month for both of us, and if you ever get cancer you get $3,000 on the spot, plus payments for things like traveling for treatment, payments for nights in the hospital, nights in hotels, family milage, surgeries, etc etc.

Got a check for $3,250 today. I complained about that policy for the whole time we had it, but today my wife got to think she was smarter than me for a day. I think it will cover my expenses for the year and then some. Feeling much better now...cancer removed, bills removed.

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:40 am

Stephanie Spielman just died of Breast Cancer. She was the wife of Chris Spielman , the former NFL linebacker. She was a big advocate in the world of Breast Cancer awareness and fundraising.

Boiler · **Posted:** Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:16 am

candpliberty · **Posted:** Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:40 am

Boiler wrote:

Lab results came back as cancerous, but luckily it was very small, like the ball on a ball point pen. They removed it and some of the wall and it hadn't spread into the wall yet. So he pretty much thinks its all gone. So I'm fine today, no longer pissing fire either...

Just going to have to watch it forever. I am going to talk to some oncologists to make sure we're taking the right approach.

Just kind of sucks, I'm not worried about it hurting me today, but having to catch any regrowths from now until forever sucks the big one. My doctor said something like "you might go three years without seeing another tumor". That wasn't exactly encouraging to me, the thought that every three years or less I'll probably have to catch it in time again. Oh well, I guess I'm healthy today so I'm blessed in that regard.

And yep, 20 years of smoking making it tough, but I'm quitting....slowly.

Dude, I smoked for 32 years. All I got to show for it is 4 heart attacks(first one when I was 39) and a ICD. Marlboro didn't even send me a get well soon card. Grow old to see your grand kids. Quit, brother, quit!

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