Sometimes the worst side effects of cancer come from financial fallout. Like convoluted medical bills, depleted savings accounts and so, so many phone calls with insurers and medical providers.
But those statistics don't convey the daily misery of a patient with a life-threatening disease trying to navigate the convoluted financial demands of the U.S. health care system while simultaneously facing a roller coaster of treatment and healing.
Carol Marley is a slight woman who dotes on her two dogs and is involved in her church. Her 88-year-old father, who has dementia, had moved in a few years earlier. She and her husband, Randall, pride themselves on living frugally. They pay their credit card off every month and don't have car payments.
But Carol says she was prepared for that."What I didn't anticipate is the knock-down, drag-out fight that I would have to engage in to get people to see there were errors and address it.""Money is not coming in, and it's going out by the thousands," she says.Carol had treated cancer patients before. She had seen them come in with unexplained aches and leave with devastating diagnoses. Now it was her turn.
After Carol Marley was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last July, she worried what it would mean for her family, including her 88-year-old father with dementia.After Carol Marley was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last July, she worried what it would mean for her family, including her 88-year-old father with dementia.The chemotherapy — seven or eight rounds, she can't quite remember — drained her."I couldn't put words together in my head," she says.
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