{"id":858,"date":"2011-04-24T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T19:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darngoodlemonade.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2011-04-24T13:19:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T19:19:03","slug":"the-cost-of-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darngoodlemonade.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/24\/the-cost-of-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_860\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darngoodlemonade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/money.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-860\" class=\"size-full wp-image-860\" title=\"money\" src=\"https:\/\/www.darngoodlemonade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/money.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bye bye money.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My insurance company has a website where I can monitor claims submitted by the hospital. I have always heard insane stories about how much chemo costs and how expensive cancer is to treat, so I have been watching the claims come in. This is by no means representative of what Mike and I actually have to pay (I feel lucky to have good insurance). How much the hospital charges the insurance company isn&#8217;t exactly what they get paid, but it is all interesting nonetheless.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total amount for claims submitted for my treatment since the first of this year (several claims haven&#8217;t been submitted yet): $135,597<\/li>\n<li>The cost of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darngoodlemonade.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/30\/home-from-the-hospital\/\" target=\"_self\">bilateral mastectomy<\/a>: $65,789<\/li>\n<li>Cost of a single chemo treatment: $3,468 (all of my chemo drugs are not new and have generic versions)<\/li>\n<li>Cost of a single Nuelasta shot: $6,935 (yes, that teensy little shot I get costs double what my chemo costs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yowza! Expensive, but not quite what I had thought it would be (believe it or not).<\/p>\n<p>So far this weekend Taxol has been pretty good to me. I haven&#8217;t been on a huge regimen of pills to battle the side effects of Taxol like I was on with Adriamycin (I was told that Adriamycin is a 10\/10 on the nausea scale and Taxol is a 5\/10). Thus I am only really dealing with the side effects of the chemo itself, rather than the side effects of the chemo plus all of the other drugs (one of the drug&#8217;s primary use was for treating schizophrenia, I kid you not).<\/p>\n<p>I have been a bit achy, which I can&#8217;t specify whether or not that is the Taxol or the Nuelasta shot &#8211; but so far it has been fantastically bearable. I am going to be so excited if I don&#8217;t get the fatigue I got with AC, but my first dose of AC did not give me any real side effects until the Monday after, so I am just waiting to see how this goes. My limbs have been getting &#8220;tingly&#8221; like they are falling asleep every now and then (which worries me a bit as this can become permanent). I am taking Glutamine three times a day as some studies have shown it to combat the ill more permanent effects of Taxol treatment.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, so far, so good!<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone has a very &#8220;Hoppy&#8221; Easter!<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?on=order-real-exelon-online\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My insurance company has a website where I can monitor claims submitted by the hospital. I have always heard insane stories about how much chemo costs and how expensive cancer is to treat, so I have been watching the claims come in. 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