Enjoying cherry blossom on his daily walk with Riley
We went to see Dr. Dormady today, both brain MRI and lung scan show stable disease. As we learned through this journey, stable is good news! Dr. Dormady also confirmed what we learned from his staff yesterday that our insurance company United Healthcare is still reviewing our preauthorization for using the Opdivo, therefore we can't get the injection today. It is a bummer. Dr. Dormady is very annoyed by the insurance companies' tactics of delaying coverage for cancer patients. He said that Opdivo is $35000 per injection, more expensive than chemo, hence, the insurance company has been lagging in approving the drugs with all sorts of excuses. He has requested for a peer to peer review with the overseeing doctor at the United Healthcare today, and he is confident with more push from both him and us, United will approve our case before we return from Asia. I asked if we should do chemo instead today, he replied no need. He assured us that Gohan's disease will not change within two weeks and encouraged us to enjoy the break from treatment.
This is something we didn't expect, but come to think of it, this break comes timely as we are traveling to Asia for work and also to see family and friends.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:9
Thanks to be God, we will surely enjoy our trip and the 2 weeks break without treatment.
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