FET in March??

I can't believe I am saying this but I think we are going to try and do a FET in March!! I had an appointment with my new oncologist today who is a sarcoma specialist and he thinks that it would be safe for me to go ahead and get pregnant (as long as we do it soon). He thinks I have about a year before another tumor shows up. I am fully aware of the fact that I won't be able to have any scans while I'm pregnant (if I get pregnant) and that when/if the baby is born I will have to get a scan right away to see if there's a tumor (which there probably will be) My tumors don't seem to grow very fast though so he thinks it will be OK. I've already contacted mt IVF coordinator and she said that when I started my period in March I would start estrogen patches, after 10-14 days on patches I would have an u/s to look at my lining and if all looked good the transfer would be the next week.

There are lots of things to be done prior to all this though...IVF coordinator said I need a pap and tons of b/w. Shit, I don't have Kai.ser anymore so I don't have a PCP to order all that stuff for me and I know insurance won't cover it if it's done by the RE.

Uggh, I can't believe all this is happening.

PS. If you are on my cancer blog list, please don't say anything about this because we aren't telling many people.

Debt...I'll never get out

I was going through and adding up all the money spent OOP on things IF and cancer related to deduct from our 2009 taxes. I have insurance for the cancer stuff and the IF stuff this year was very minimal compared to the year prior. How am I ever supposed to get out of debt when I spent close to $10,000 OOP in 2009 for co-pays, ER, chemo, scans, etc? In 2008 we deducted close to $25,000 OOP. I do the flex spending but we can only do $2500/year and with my health crap that's gone by March.

Honestly, even with insurance you're screwed.

Vent over.

Healing

Surgery went great and the doctor was able to get the tumor out via lap so the healing should be very similar to last year. I opted for a mid-body epidural and OMG it was the best thing ever. I had NO pain whatsoever while it was in and I was recovering in the hospital. I am now home and the epidural has since worn off but I am doing well and keeping on top of the pain meds and taking Ad.vil in between. I am doing so well that I don't think I am going to need to 2 months off work like I originally thought but I am going to wait and see.

Thanks for all the positive thoughts and prayers.

Surgery is coming...

Friday is my latest surgery. I am getting kinda nervous for this one because I think it's going to be bigger than last year. My Dad comes into town tomorrow and he's going to be in shock coming from the south to CO where the high tomorrow will be 23 degrees and 1-3 inches of snow by evening!

I appreciate all your thoughts and prayers and I undergo the latest surgery.
For those of you that follow my cancer blog, it will be updated several times on Friday and then when I feel up to it I will update how I'm doing later in the weekend.

We're Back

DH and I had a great time...here are a few pics.

Wine Tasting in N.apa

Hope you all had a great Christmas!!

Save your Receipts

I think I have finally gotten the $400 bill from the RE's office taken care of but not until I made LOTS of phone calls. I keep all my receipts for everything medical, mainly to write them off for taxes, but a note to everyone out there...SAVE ALL YOUR MEDICAL RECEIPTS and fight anything you aren't sure of. I would've paid $400 that I didn't owe if I hadn't checked into it.

Another Surgery

On January 8th I will be having another surgery to remove the latest tumor in my chest. This one is pretty scary. It appears to be attached to aorta and they won't know how serious the surgery will need to be until they get in there. Good thing is that I changed health insurance companies so I don't have to fight with K.aiser to go to the best doctors, they are now covered. The tumor seems to be dead from the chemo but there's again no way to be sure until they take it out.

In other news, my good friend just told me she was pregnant today. She is 12 weeks and her and her DH were separated less than a year ago...it was a "we weren't NOT trying" baby but they are happy to be pregnant. I am OK with it and knew it was coming but uggh.

Monday my DH and I are headed to San Fransisco for a much deserved and anticipated vacation...we're SOOOOO excited!