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Thanks for all of the help since we bought our toyhauler. It's been a hectic last year-and-a-half. The hauler only got taken on one trip last year and sat until mid-June this year. My husband was d...
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The insurance kept denying a pet scan "said it wasn't medically necessary" until July of this year when the new pulmologist insisted that he needed it to do a biopsy. He didn't know which spot to check. They found 2 hot spots and did a biopsy on the new one. Came back "no cancer found". The other was in the lymph node where cancer was last year and has a lot of scar tissue. It hasn't changed since October, 2012 other than to shrink some more.
As a result of the the insurance denials, the oncologist gave Jeff treatments as though he had cancer even if there wasn't proof. Cancer was found by biopsy in the lymph node between the lungs in August, 2012. Jeff went through chemo and 30 rounds of chest radiation between August and October, 2012 when the ct scans showed black spots instead of white spots. In March, 2013, a ct scan showed white dots throughout the lungs. It is now thought that it was an infection or scar tissue as the dots have either disappeared, shrunk, or remained the same. But when the insurance again denied a pet scan, the oncologist gave Jeff three rounds of a different chemo instead of waiting to see if the spots spread. He then did more ct scans that looked the same as the March ones. It was at that point that the oncologist called in a pulmologist to do a biopsy.
As a result of the the insurance denials, the oncologist gave Jeff treatments as though he had cancer even if there wasn't proof. Cancer was found by biopsy in the lymph node between the lungs in August, 2012. Jeff went through chemo and 30 rounds of chest radiation between August and October, 2012 when the ct scans showed black spots instead of white spots. In March, 2013, a ct scan showed white dots throughout the lungs. It is now thought that it was an infection or scar tissue as the dots have either disappeared, shrunk, or remained the same. But when the insurance again denied a pet scan, the oncologist gave Jeff three rounds of a different chemo instead of waiting to see if the spots spread. He then did more ct scans that looked the same as the March ones. It was at that point that the oncologist called in a pulmologist to do a biopsy.
