Health News Roundup
A few bits of good news from the past week, mostly having to do with insurance:
1) After receiving three letters from my insurance company saying that coverage of the Optune was being denied after all, I received confirmation from my oncologist that he was still confident they would relent in the end. Then came a fourth letter saying that, yes, they would be covering the Optune after all. The letter does not explain why they changed their tune.
2) After receiving two further forms to submit for SSDI and a third form received by Denys(!), I complained to Allsup, which is the third-party company hired by my long term disability insurance company (the Standard) to help me apply for SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance -- a federal program in the US), and they said they'd intervene on my behalf. So this week I received confirmation that I had been approved for SSDI.
3) Yesterday I took the last dose of my eighth round of chemo. Only four rounds to go. I'm two-thirds of the way there and champing at the damn bit.
1) After receiving three letters from my insurance company saying that coverage of the Optune was being denied after all, I received confirmation from my oncologist that he was still confident they would relent in the end. Then came a fourth letter saying that, yes, they would be covering the Optune after all. The letter does not explain why they changed their tune.
2) After receiving two further forms to submit for SSDI and a third form received by Denys(!), I complained to Allsup, which is the third-party company hired by my long term disability insurance company (the Standard) to help me apply for SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance -- a federal program in the US), and they said they'd intervene on my behalf. So this week I received confirmation that I had been approved for SSDI.
3) Yesterday I took the last dose of my eighth round of chemo. Only four rounds to go. I'm two-thirds of the way there and champing at the damn bit.