Cancer - Medical Bills Nightmare

I have never been good at asking people for help, I am strong and I don't need help. I am totally independent, thats just me. I felt like to ask people to help me I was admitting to failure. So I unplugged my brain and just tried to focus on myself and the boys whilst ill. When I was diagnosed in July 2008 and while the testing begun for this second time cancer battle for me. Life became a financial whirlpool. Tests cost big money there are lots of them and they take time. You have to wait in the waiting rooms and this takes hours. Then they find something more tests, more money. Now I am only at work half the hours because of this which means my income has now halved. Hard to concentrate when you feel your life is getting out of control.
So the bills piled up, best not to open them. I just kept moving forward concentrating on my health and day by day. Which I never do I am a planner and totally organized normally. Life was getting out of control. Organized Caos, thats the only way I can put it. Bills, medical bills lower income and now preparing to leave work as well, to put myself right. I only cried 3 days, somehow I kept powering on and on and on. Debt collectors started, so I gave the proof of my illness and bought sometime. But they only stay patient for a little while then they start again.
My book tells you about some amazing family and friends that helped. I have spent so far over $40,000 I am still paying some of this off, and I still have one operation to go which is $5,000. The medical System Sucks in this country. We give to so many but we do not support people with cancer and the gaps are huge and the big tests are not claimable through medicare and heath funds. The Government throws money around like its going out of fashion. But how many cancer patient loose their homes and get put in financial drain. I went to the director of Gosford Hospital and explained the bills were out of control and I was not coping. Her name is Liz, being a woman I thought she may understand. She came back to me with I will put you on a payment plan. ....THANKS.... this is why I hate the medical system and what they put us through. But if I was 20 and fell pregnant to some guy at the pub I will never see again I would get $5,000 and the pension!
This year I am going to start a foundation that assists the cancer patient! The one that needs the money. Celebrities bring Cancer awareness to us but it also happens to everyday people like me and thousands more...Jane McGrath was an amazing woman.

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