Monday fun day!

Today was a good day.....(cue the Ice Cube tune).....I went to work and busted my ass. I had quite a bit of pain just a bit higher than where I normally have it. That worries me especially going into this surgery in the near future. The pain is also starting to be more centrally located in my chest. Terry from Dr.Maddaus's office and I spoke today about Dr.Skubitz recommendation of time I need to recover from the chemo in order to have a good recovery and less complications during the procedure. The chemo recovery time is two to three weeks. This means I have probably had my last chemo dosage. YAY!!! I honestly don't think this new stuff is working anyways. I really don't have any side effects and feel fine for the most part. My blood counts haven't really changed at all and that is a bit wierd but it does happen to some people. I just worry that they can't get everything. That just sits in the back of my mind. To continue on here, Terry is helping me get into to see 3 different doctors next week and getting them all scheduled for the surgeries. Maddaus will be removing the complete chest wall and the stuff off of my lung. Then the one doctor would perform the splenectomy and the last one would be the plastic surgeon who would recreate my chest wall and lining. I have a lot of questions for that guy. I mean that is the big procedure and it has the most after effects for my life than any of the others. That is pretty damn obvious. I wonder if the reconstruction is going to limit my abilities to do anything. I am a pretty active person so if it does it will suck a lot but like I keep saying how much does one value their own life? I mean I truly do not know much about anything past the idea and basics that they are going to be doing. I did find out that the whole thing should be about 3-4 hours in surgery. I was assuming it would be longer but hey what do I care as long as it gets done right.
My insurance has been one hell of a roller coaster ride so far. As I have mentioned before my doctors are covered under my in network plan and the University of Minnesota is not covered at all so anything that is done is going against my $10,000 out of pocket deductible. Not too fast here I was pissed and called Humana and my companies insurance person and threw a fit. They are trying to change me over to the Minnesota coverage plan of Preffered One which would date back to 7-09-08 and cover everything I have ever had done at the U of M. Pretty nice huh? Which means it would fall under my $5,000 out of pocket in network and be fully covered by the insurance. Then looking at the first chemo dosage I got here as it was billed to Humana they actually paid for most of it even though they usually out right denied it. Naturally I said nothing about it to the Humana rep. The only thing I can think is that the pharmicutical company is paying Humana for covering it. Who cares!?! All in all my agressivness is finally paying off in small doses. I just want to get to this surgery and hopefully be done with this thing. I know the risks of it still being there is pretty good but with all of the hopes and prayers from others and my complete and stubborn nature it should just go away.

If you live in the Janesville area please go to Kareoke for the cure at The Looking Glass downtown on Saturday and help out the cause. My old manager Jay put this together and don't disappoint him! I wrote down the wrong time it starts at 6 to 10 or 11 so go out and make fun of my folks singing some terrible 80's tunes. I will not be there though. I do want to go but I need a weekend to get things organized and collected.