Another treatment draws near

Thursday’s first round of chemo with the new drug is getting closer and quite honestly Jeannie is just now starting to bounce back from the last treatment. It’s taken her longer to fight back from the fatigue, to get her energy back. Still she’s amazing in all she does get done. The cooking, cleaning and laundry she’s always handled plus her job and walking the dogs. So when she tells me how exhausted she was it wasn’t surprising but is still hard to believe. She even picked up the phone today to complain to Ohio Health’s billing department because she must have felt her blood pressure wasn’t high enough. Did we tell you the one about the billing for the anesthesia that was never provided? This goes back to when the chemo iv port was installed in August, normally done under anesthesia but Jeannie knew it could be done with a simple local. Ohio Health billed the insurance company for the anesthesia anyway and was paid for it. We get the bill for the balance and after requesting an itemized bill called this to everyone’s attention. (we’re also demanding some changes in the recovery room fees for recovery services that were never needed). Anyway the whole thing is being re-billed but we get a past due notice and the girl with the perfect credit decides to call about this not wanting it to go to collection. Naturally she gets some lacky who tells her the bill is due regardless of what might be changed. This defies logic but we’re talking medical billing here. I made a second call and got a second clueless lacky but did talk with his supervisor who agreed it only made sense to change the status of the bill. No doubt there will be more such fun in the future.

Jeannie has also started reading more. Normally a voracious reader, she’d kind of backed off the books a bit. But she’s gotten a couple as gifts and has been enjoying them thoroughly plus she got the kindle app for her Ipad and has downloaded a book so she’s back to reading her butt off (which is a good sign). She’s also received a number of cards and note which always cheer her and for which she is grateful. Here are a few.