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Do you have financial concerns around your cancer? How are you dealing with them?

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lbaskin

I'm self-employed and worked full-time through treatment including taking my tablet to all chemo treatments and my laptop to the hospital when admitted. GoToMyPC helped me access my desktop computer for all tasks. Three years later, business is down and my savings is keeping me afloat.

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PJBinMI

The current tax bill in Congress has me very concerned about future funding of Medicare and that certainly raises concerns. I wish this questionnaire included something related to that. Long term financial planning is really difficult right now!

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Scarey4 in reply to PJBinMI

I am 4 years and 7 months NED. I am stage IV and the good news is IM Ned. The bad news is that I cannot work and I'm living on 60% of my pay and social security. My husband and I separated and he is not supporting me and our 2 adult children at all. He left me with all the bills and moved out. Now I am barely making it because of mortgage, utilities, college loans, food, phones, internet, Comcast, cars, gas, medical bills. I don't have any help and will probably have to sell my house. There needs to be help for people living with cancer long-term. People do not understand the medical bill crisis. my bills are 20,000 every 21 days and that's just the medicine not the doctors appointments or scans ect.

I don't know how to get help.\\Shelly 8819