Monday, January 6, 2014

A full day with doctors... the radiation oncologist decided that it is best to hold off for now so that radiation treatments don't inhibit hitting the cancer in a systemic way full force with the new chemotherapy.  However, by the end of the day the insurance company still were still reviewing the intended treatment and hadn't yet given it the required pre-authorization, so we're "on hold" for hopefully no more than a few days while that's being done.  That's normally done within a week but supposedly can take as long as 30-45 days.  We're going to try to get that expedited faster than the normal doctor office-insurance company interaction... Lisa is got on the phone with the insurance company after we got home and made progress but it's after 5pm here so the insurance folks at our Cancer Center have gone home for the day.  We'll try to nudge it forward more tomorrow.