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[camwyn]

Signed up for cancer insurance this morning. Mutual of Omaha. I'd been considering the possibility for a while now- honestly, since before last year's colonoscopy, and I'd looked at reviews and checked a couple of companies. Never actually went through with it, but...

Well, I have health insurance through my job and that's a start, but honestly, there's a lot of stuff that goes on when someone has cancer that isn't covered by health insurance and that stacks up. And even what's covered can get expensive; I'd like to avoid being completely whammied if I ever get bad results on a mammogram, or on a colonoscopy, or-

Did I mention that this past year the World Trade Center health program added 'uterine cancer' to the list of conditions covered for WTC responders? And that my doctor had me go in for a biopsy last year to make sure that my getting two heavy periods a month, more than once in a year, was just because my parents neglected to invite Menstrua the Wicked Fairy to my christening fibroids?

yeah.

If it happens, I want to be able to pay for the process, including the stuff I didn't think I'd have to pay for or the stuff I hadn't thought about that turns out to be associated with the whole godawful mess.

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[silveraspen]

UGH. I mean, it seems a logical and good decision especially considering the circumstances, but I hate that there's a need for you to have to consider the circumstances, you know?

[camwyn]

yeah, seriously. I don't like having to do any of this, but 'what I like' and 'what my highly fallible fleshy meat prison is likely to do' are two different things and I need to deal with the latter rather than the former.