Thank God For Insurance

When you become a cancer patient you quickly find out the costs involved. From all the doctor's appointments, Xray's, MRI'S, Cat Scan's, Emergency Room Visits, Weekly Blood Tests, I could go on and on. And then there are all those medications. Many of the pills are to combat the side effects from the chemotherapy. From day one you start taking pills. Here are just a few of the one's Steve is currently taking.

Here is what use to be my spice and tea cabinet. It's now filled with all the medications he either doesn't need right now or had problems with (a few of mine are in there too).

And here is what $5,793.72 of thalidomide looks like. Amazing, huh? For 28 day's worth of just one pill!

The thalidomide comes in a package that folds in and over, containing all the warnings about how bad it is for unborn babies and why not to touch the pills. Just one pill can cause birth defects or even death for an unborn baby. The company even puts a picture of a baby born without her arms and legs, right on the package. In fact if we have any pills left over they have to be sent back to the company for disposal. When Steve heard about all of this he said, "Then what's it doing to my body?" You can see why we are very thankful for our medical insurance!

I have a praise report. A few days ago I blogged about Steve having very painful leg cramps that would wake him up in the middle of the night. Since our doctor's appointment on Wednesday he has not had one leg cramp! Thank you for your prayers.

Please continue to pray for Hayden, Dale, Margaret and Natalie. They are all dealing with very serious health problems. God bless and see you later.