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[riverbendviewgal]

82. Can I tell you something

My son and husband were diagnosed within 2 months with having cancer. our 24 year old son, always healthy, no warnings , had seizures at work and was getting a brain operation 3 days later. He had the same type of brain tumour as Ted Kennedy. and I looked when Kennedy was struck with his...they had pretty much the same treatments.
My son's dad, my soul mate, was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin's lymphoma. They both went to the same cancer centre in Toronto. My husband was 51 when he was diagnosed with his cancer. He had 1 operation, radiation and chemotherapy , several types with stem cell harvesting so that they would be put back on his one type of chemo, which he spent a month in hospital for. He spent 3 months in palliative care in the hospital. Our son had 3 brain operations, chemo and radiation , blood transfusions, and was in ICU for 3 weeks after his last operation and then in palliative care in the hospital for a week.
There were of course numerous lab tests, MRI, CT scans. the works.
Cost = zero.

Drugs can be expensive but many people have drug plans and also if you can't afford it the government helps. and yes loss of income can be a problem but both of my guys worked for union jobs so there was no problem..

Of course. You are right bankruptcies can occur from loss of income and that is sad.
I really believe in unions. an also private insurance to help you pay for drugs. Many people opt not to have private insurance or work for companies that do not provide benefits or have t heir own businesses. I find that people up here are not financially well when they opted to work for those kind of companies or for themselves. Of course in these times people just are not that lucky to get good paying jobs with benefits.. Corporations have become greedy.

The government can't do everything.