Hi @Tidden,
Welcome to the forum. Always brilliant advice and support on here not matter the time of day or night.
I used public system as well. Surgery in the public hospital and chemo and rads were done public in a lovely fairly new private hospital. They even had free parking! So all up costs were just the initial mammogram, u/sound and MRI....everything else after that was free.
The ladies have pretty much covered everything already. Keep busy lovely, the beginning is the pitts we all remember how overwhelming it is.
Keep in touch
xoxoxoxo