A Sandi Update

This Monday evening finds her tired and nauseated as she has been for the majority of the time the last several days. So far she has not actually thrown-up though it has been close a couple of times. The anti-nausea med helps as does wintergreen lifesavers. Despite being tired and taking lots of naps, she has not only used up all the yarn she had to make hats, she set up her blog http://lady-sandra.blogspot.com/ with a number of posts in the queue so that stuff would appear everyday.

Tomorrow we know for sure it is blood work and a doctor visit. That will determine whether we have to spend the day at the hospital so she can have a blood transfusion. Obviously we hope not!  Not only for her sake, but my own as well as I am not doing well. It is what it is and another thing to add to the worry list.

Our expectation is next week she will be back in for round three of chemotherapy. We do expect them to tell us that tomorrow regardless of the need for a blood transfusion.

We have not made the rent yet and the apartment office has granted us a two day reprieve to try and make rent. We also do not yet know what the status is on Texas Medicaid  or assistance from a cancer charity that works with cancer patients on paying insurance premiums, medical bills, etc. We need to know on this stuff and truly need the help and we get the run around and no answers.

Yet, the things we don't need just keep coming. Last week Sandi was summoned for jury duty  so we filled out their form and sent it back with medical documentation showing her situation. Considering what she is going through and her status the idea of her being on a jury right now is impossible.

Today we got eight medical bills totaling 18k plus we somehow now owe and four demand letters from a law firm specializing in debt collection over a couple of her private student loans. That totals in just under 15k allegedly. From the form letters we can't tell which student loan company, despite knowing our situation and despite the fact she is supposed to be on some sort of deal where they postpone payments, went ahead and turned a debt collector on us.  Needless to say, this upset her horribly tonight and did god knows what damage to her fragile state.

I finally got her calmed down and  will deal with the student loan mess later this week. Tomorrow I expect to be gone all day and will update when I can.