Reply #11: That's what the doctor told

[Nite Owl]

him too. Some people sail right through and others just cannot take the side effects. He's young and in good health, he has no symptoms of the disease at all so hopefully he won't be affected too much. I wish I could do this instead of him though, he's been through so much in his young life already though he doesn't remember much of the chemo. The doctor he is seeing seems good and supportive. His office staff is a PITA though. I've had several arguments with them already. We have been waiting for a month for 'approval' and I called the insurance a few days ago to find out what was holding things up and they were never notified and the treatment didn't need 'approval' at all. The drug did but it came down to sending a fax. Unbelievably the insurance company was the one that took care of everything with the office and fast tracked the Rx and called me to tell me it was waiting for me at the pharmacy. They did all they could to help. I was all ready to sound off to them and it was the office that was the problem and they were blaming the insurance company.