Newly Diagnosed and trying to cope
Hi my name is Suzie and I found a lump 1 week prior to christmas whilst checking my breasts in the shower. My lump is under my right breast just above the breast bone. I had one biopsy done with the r...
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@Suzie82 ... when I was going thru all my surgery and stuff 3 years ago, I was many thousands out of pocket, even having to pay $500 towards my own pathology bill, which I still can’t really understand! I was really stressing out over it all.
I had a shocker of a day at radiation and just broke down and sobbed. I couldn’t stop. They got the welfare officer in and she was as good as a counsellor! She talked me thru what I Was going thru and could see that my husband’s situation (dementia) was also impacting my treatment (he’d had an accident the day I started rads so I was also looking after him as I went thru rads) and then that pathology bill just tipped me over the edge. She said the Cancer council had the discretion to pay a utility bill up to $250 to give me a ‘break’, and she arranged for my power bill to be partially paid for, which was a huge relief for me.
Don’t forget, after your active treatment is finished, you can also apply to the Otis Foundation for a ‘free holiday’ (just take your food and clothes and transport) to gibe you and your family a decent break. Wonderful people allow us to stay in their fully equipped Holiday Homes! I stayed at the Thredbo one. Read about it here:
https://onlinenetwork.bcna.org.au/discussion/22905/otis-foundation-holiday/p1
A link to them:
https://www.otisfoundation.org.au/directory
Take care and well done xxx
I had a shocker of a day at radiation and just broke down and sobbed. I couldn’t stop. They got the welfare officer in and she was as good as a counsellor! She talked me thru what I Was going thru and could see that my husband’s situation (dementia) was also impacting my treatment (he’d had an accident the day I started rads so I was also looking after him as I went thru rads) and then that pathology bill just tipped me over the edge. She said the Cancer council had the discretion to pay a utility bill up to $250 to give me a ‘break’, and she arranged for my power bill to be partially paid for, which was a huge relief for me.
Don’t forget, after your active treatment is finished, you can also apply to the Otis Foundation for a ‘free holiday’ (just take your food and clothes and transport) to gibe you and your family a decent break. Wonderful people allow us to stay in their fully equipped Holiday Homes! I stayed at the Thredbo one. Read about it here:
https://onlinenetwork.bcna.org.au/discussion/22905/otis-foundation-holiday/p1
A link to them:
https://www.otisfoundation.org.au/directory
Take care and well done xxx