• qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one
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    6 months ago

    Medical bills that insurance didn’t cover. Him and his wife didn’t share specifics with me, but my understanding is that he blew through the insurance maximums yearly for years. Leukemia is a bitch.

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      6 months ago

      That sounds awful. I was at the Mayo Clinic recently and talked to a woman who was in remission from stage 4 appendix cancer. I can’t even imagine what that sort of rare cancer would have cost.