Yesterday, I hit another milestone - I jogged 9km! I surprised even myself. Of course, my legs were killing me afterwards, but it was well worth it. The weather helped, being a nice cool night. (How much healther I might be if it was 24 deg C all the time!)
I think I could even have pushed myself to go on a bit longer, but did not want to do my knees in. The hard part, of course, will be forcing myself to do it again!
And today, I saw my oncologist and she has given me a shot, effectively putting me into menopause within a week so that she can start me on an aromatase inhibitor called Femara. The jogging will become essential in terms of helping me fight the side effects of the Femara, said to be: nausea, bone ache, fatigue, constipation, coughing, chest pain and headaches. Honestly, and they expect us to hold down a job through all this? Oh, did I forget to mention: thromboembolic, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular events? Dunno what these are, but they sound suitably scary - I think I would prefer to be taking chemotherapy!
But the cost of the drug is what really got my adrenaline going - $1400, give or take, for a 30 day supply. Well, I really cannot afford to quit the job, or be made redundant now! This is quite horrendous. Roll on the generics! Really, it is times like this when I feel the stirrings of socialist fervour.
And I am getting really pissed off at my insurance company who still refuses to admit my breast cancer claim and therefore will not be paying for any of these drugs. What a cop-out, especially since this is the one that has been recommended by the government, to be paid for out of our medisave funds. So my medisave is being severely depleted for a policy that won't cover me.
They say cancer is a pre-existing condition - well, yes. In other words, unless the policy was bought what, 20 years prior to diagnosis, they won't pay. That's alot of cancer patients who get no support,despite hefty premiums. And there was no medical test - so what gives them the right to be so bloody minded about this?
If I make a claim for diabetes or Alzheimers', both slow-developing diseases, they will hide behind the same bloody clause again.
Again, this was an insurance company recommended by the government. This citizen (I admit it, I am a total idiot, I went against my usual good - and opposite - judgement)decided to trust the government and leapt into the policy.
Really, is there no way the common Singaporean gets a break? Big business wins every time, as does big Government. Just once or twice, or more, I'd like to see the little person win and be able to smear egg all over the face of these giants of enterprise.
I think I could even have pushed myself to go on a bit longer, but did not want to do my knees in. The hard part, of course, will be forcing myself to do it again!
And today, I saw my oncologist and she has given me a shot, effectively putting me into menopause within a week so that she can start me on an aromatase inhibitor called Femara. The jogging will become essential in terms of helping me fight the side effects of the Femara, said to be: nausea, bone ache, fatigue, constipation, coughing, chest pain and headaches. Honestly, and they expect us to hold down a job through all this? Oh, did I forget to mention: thromboembolic, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular events? Dunno what these are, but they sound suitably scary - I think I would prefer to be taking chemotherapy!
But the cost of the drug is what really got my adrenaline going - $1400, give or take, for a 30 day supply. Well, I really cannot afford to quit the job, or be made redundant now! This is quite horrendous. Roll on the generics! Really, it is times like this when I feel the stirrings of socialist fervour.
And I am getting really pissed off at my insurance company who still refuses to admit my breast cancer claim and therefore will not be paying for any of these drugs. What a cop-out, especially since this is the one that has been recommended by the government, to be paid for out of our medisave funds. So my medisave is being severely depleted for a policy that won't cover me.
They say cancer is a pre-existing condition - well, yes. In other words, unless the policy was bought what, 20 years prior to diagnosis, they won't pay. That's alot of cancer patients who get no support,despite hefty premiums. And there was no medical test - so what gives them the right to be so bloody minded about this?
If I make a claim for diabetes or Alzheimers', both slow-developing diseases, they will hide behind the same bloody clause again.
Again, this was an insurance company recommended by the government. This citizen (I admit it, I am a total idiot, I went against my usual good - and opposite - judgement)decided to trust the government and leapt into the policy.
Really, is there no way the common Singaporean gets a break? Big business wins every time, as does big Government. Just once or twice, or more, I'd like to see the little person win and be able to smear egg all over the face of these giants of enterprise.
posted by Simone @ 10:01 PM
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