How do i deal with this
Hi all. I only joined this group today but was diagnosed with BC in January this year. I had a mastectomy and 20 lymph nodes removed from left hand side. Cancer was in 8. I have been through 6 months ...
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@3boysmum I Will leave the number for the counselling service on your timeline, but yes, you can ring Gosford hospital and ask for the counselling service.
ROC Gosford have a counsellor but I think you have to pay for it.
The other way you can do it is to go to your GP arrange a chronic care management plan and then you can organise allied health visit referrals at the same time.
It resets in January though, and you have to redo it with your GP. You get 5 per year.
I have one in place and have seen a dietitian and a exercise physiologist. You still have to pay but Medicare will then cover part of it. Cost will depend on who you see, so you would then have to ring each one and ask them before the referral is written.
My GP has a dietitian at their practise and it was bulk billed on the Care plan, no cost to me.
The exercise physiologist was at the Mariners Centre at Tuggerah and it cost $85 with a Medicare rebate, I think I will find a different one next year.
I also plan to include a podiatrist visit next year.
You get 5 allied health visits covered fully or partially per year. Some of them can be a psychologist.
But it is a bit confusing.
I would ask your GP about it for other people you might want to see.
If you just go to Sue or Kaitlin at the Gosford Public it is simple and straightforward. I go to Kaitlin and love her. And they are very familiar with the issues of Cancer Patients as it is in the Cancer Centre.
Let me know if you don't find the number on your timeline.
Jennie
ROC Gosford have a counsellor but I think you have to pay for it.
The other way you can do it is to go to your GP arrange a chronic care management plan and then you can organise allied health visit referrals at the same time.
It resets in January though, and you have to redo it with your GP. You get 5 per year.
I have one in place and have seen a dietitian and a exercise physiologist. You still have to pay but Medicare will then cover part of it. Cost will depend on who you see, so you would then have to ring each one and ask them before the referral is written.
My GP has a dietitian at their practise and it was bulk billed on the Care plan, no cost to me.
The exercise physiologist was at the Mariners Centre at Tuggerah and it cost $85 with a Medicare rebate, I think I will find a different one next year.
I also plan to include a podiatrist visit next year.
You get 5 allied health visits covered fully or partially per year. Some of them can be a psychologist.
But it is a bit confusing.
I would ask your GP about it for other people you might want to see.
If you just go to Sue or Kaitlin at the Gosford Public it is simple and straightforward. I go to Kaitlin and love her. And they are very familiar with the issues of Cancer Patients as it is in the Cancer Centre.
Let me know if you don't find the number on your timeline.
Jennie