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Out of Pocket Expenses to be reimbursed by Health Insurer!
Hi there, just a quick update, just received a phone call from my health insurer and they have decided to reimburse me my out of pocket expenses for one of my major surgeries!!! This is fantastic news, so any of you out there who have also been out of pocket, I would love to hear from you so that I can take our concerns to…
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Out of Pocket Medical Expenses
Hello out there! I have been approached by the Telegraph paper to assist them with an article about 'out of pocket expenses' for medical procedures relating to my breast cancer surgeries etc. The article is expected to appear on the front page of the Sunday Telegraph 18 November. I am very interested in hearing from people…
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Inflammatory breast cancer
Hi, I am Sika and I went to my GP in Highett Medical Centre last Sunday (11 Nov), had a scan on Monday and a Biopsy today at Monash. They seem to be saying Inflammatory Breast Cancer. I ate vegies everyday. Exercised 4 times a week. What did I do wrong? I wonder will my 11 month baby remember me?
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A BIG thank you!
I just wanted to thank the BCNA staff who put on an amazing conference.I enjoyed the whole 2 days. You ladies must have worked so hard to make it such a success- hope you got to rest and recover. It was so nice of you to give us all a bag of goodies -it was much appreciated and so was the gala dinner which was great.I got…
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Magic Wand Required
Those people who didnt have friends and family around them can you tell me your story of how you coped with the house, all the jobs, your husband, financial advice for free? Was there any hands on help, or financial advice? I have a friend who works for Centrelink, so that area will be covered. Its always about the money…
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RadX Cream
I purchased 3 tubes of the superb RadX radiation therapy cream from the USA. I have a complete tube left if anyone would like it. If you want the used tubes as well, more than happy to donate them. This cream is fantastic and helped me get through the soreness of the radiation treatment. If anyone wants these tubes please…
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support is so much
Hi girls adean here, wanted to tell everybody how lucky I am at my workplace. I have had the utmost support of my manager Amanda on my breast cancer journey and especially now. I am up to my 26th radaition treatment and are quite badly burnt Ive been lucky up till now but finally those bossoms have sucumbed and after all…
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Blog settings
Hi there, I want to have a rant about something but dont want it to appear on the public blog feed (as yet anyway!) Ive tried to find a way to do this but appears one can only do this if its via contacts ? Any suggestions on this and to be honest I'm not overly happy about blog posts appearing in the larger audience . Do…
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A little news
Hi girls Hope you are all well. Just thought I'd share with you a press story that's about me holding my big fundraiser for the Hospital that treated me and it's also about the cookbook I've created. There's another story coming out next week in another paper and a radio interview - in which I am talking about BCNA. I've…
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Hello I'm new here!!
Hi I'm Kim 43 years old 2 children 12 and 9 and a wonderful husband and family. Last year my world came crashing down when diagnosed with breast cancer in July. Following this was a dark cloud of Doctors appointments and horrendous tests. I thought it was the end. I had a double mastectomy with Reconstruction. 7 hour…
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Airline Travel
I had my mastectomy in October 2009 and had not flown since then until recently. When I flew,I had to wear an arm compression garment due to having some of my underarm lymph nodes removed. The garment was extremely uncomfortable and tight to the point of being painful. I have decided not to fly again. How do others cope…
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Introductions
Hi girls. Sorry I have not been very active lately. My name is Cathy and I live about 2 hours west of Mackay. My treatment was in Townsville (chemo and radiation and mastectomy) which was about 4.5 hours travel each way. Thankfully all treatment is finished and I only have to visit the hospital once a month to have my port…
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Still Recovering
Well, its been a month since my radiation treatment finished, Ive had the port removed ( no stitches) and Im so so. I have days, god and bad. For the 2 weeks after treatment, I burned up from the inside out pretty bad! I became so red, and dark, my skin blistered and i was lathering on the cream they gave me, and the…
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BCNA Conference
Hi ladies Thought I'd let you all know that unfortunately I am unable to come up for the Conference. I'm very disappointed as I really wanted to go, particularly since there are going to be some awesome speakers, but I just can't afford it (we're trying to get on our feet financially after this cancer thing - had huge…
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New Diagnosis and waiting
Hi all, this is my first post. diagnosed 6th Sept awaiting Second opinion ... only public patient so feel a bit powerless within the system. Would like help to compile list of questions for this Wednesday coming for my appt. Feel overwhelmed by it all. Live regional NSW and I am carer to 2 boys with Autism/epilpsy etc.