Finally got a call from the CT/MRI dept this morning. She said it took so long (for them to contact me for scheduling) because they had to get approval from my insurance company. I have a $63 copay for the scan. The only other time I had a copay was before my first surgery ($60), and I think that time they said it was so I'd hit my $2500 deductible, or something like that. How expensive can the CT scan be and why do I have to pay a copay for this? - questions for my health insurance company. She wanted to know when I wanted to go in. I said the sooner the better, so luckily there was an open appt tomorrow morning (Aug 19).
Instructions for the scan are that I am not to eat anything for four hours before the scan. I check in at 10:40am, I'm on the 'table' at 11am, and scan should be completed by 11:20am. No contrast dyes to worry about, no agonizing minutes as I'm pulled slowly through a machine like when I had my two WBS done.
In my mind, I need to know the results of the CT scan before I return to work because I don't think I could take any bad news at work without balling my eyes out on the job. All of this worry was supposed to be over before I went back to work. If things were really "Ok" then I would not have to worry about anything (other than blood work to balance out my meds) until six months or 12 months later (for my 1-yr scan), but here I am still having to get a CT scan and wait for results. And why hasn't my ENDO told me what my Tg level is? This. doesn't. seem. right.
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