@Keeping_positive1 your situation is all too common.
The public health system works reasonably well for folk diagnosed with common cancers. There may not be much choice, or access to comprehensive care in some areas, but you will get your surgery and chemo and maybe publically funded rads. In my case I had recon publically as well. What that cost society in dollar terms is difficult to measure. $100k?
Then you are chucked off the bus. All that money to save our lives, then zip. On the dole, unable to afford physio, couselling--any allied health services past the five subsidised visits. If you can get them, not possible here because there are no practitioners. People talk about a COVID normal existence. They have no fucking idea what it is like when normal life is anything but. Welcome to our world, folks. Buckle up and complaints are forbidden.
My last bout of BC probably cost me $200k when you look at costs and lost income. Drawing down on super. Borrowing from family. I'll never recover from the financial spanking and can't make up lost ground. I lost my job and very nearly my home, had to start again with significant physical and mental impairment.
I'm hearing you. This shit is exhausting. MXx
