October 22, 2009 10:25 PM

A conundrum!

A year ago when I entered the hospital, my hemoglobin was low. When your hemoglobin is low - it means one of three things.

1. Your body is destroying it
2. Your body is losing it
3. Your body is not making it

With my apparent good health, the focus was on options one and two. All kinds of tests were done during the day and on into the night with nothing conclusive being being terminated. The day ended with the medical staff being baffled.

A year later, we had a much better day. Obviously, as the year has unfolded, the medical bills have been mounting. Though our insurance has covered the lion's share of the bills, we were still left with a five figure balance. However, today we received a large set of statements from my health insurance company covering just about every visit to Dana-Farber over the past year. Each visit was listed as being paid in full with our now owing no additional fees! A phone call to Dana-Farber confirmed this status. They had found an additional way to bill the insurance company based upon my illness such that all of the outstanding balances were now covered by the health insurance company!

Hallelulia! Praise God! To have those daunting medical bills removed was beyond our wildest dreams.

But a year ago, with no definitive results being generated from the days effort, we awaited the results from more tests done later in the day.

And pption three remained out of consideration...

Bob