Will you still love me to-marrow - John Mycroft and Multiple Myeloma

... some of it possibly correct Like everyone else in the USA legally, I qualified for Medicare on my 65th birthday.  This was handy as I had lost my work-related health insurance when my boss cut my hours.  As part of the deal, Medicare sent me an enormous (couple of hundred pages) document "explaining" the various bits of Medicare.  It was written in no form of English with which I am familiar and my Spanish isn't up to reading the Spanish version either so I signed up for "Medicare Part A".  This is basic Medicare which covers admission to hospital. Medicare Part A As I discovered this past January, being kept in the hospital overnight doesn't constitute being admitted to hospital.  So I got stuck with a decent lump of that bill.  It also doesn't cover any drugs or, I imagine, anything they do to you while you're in hospital other than perform an operation. Medicare Part B And here I quote.... Use this list if you’re a person with Med...

Had an appointment with Dr Mike on Friday.  It was a follow up to my Monday exercise of collecting all of my urine for a 24 hour period - I will never look at a half gallon milk jug the same way again.  The main item of interest was my kappa light chains (he said, trying to sound knowledgeable) and I will freely admit to having no idea what they are beyond the fact that my urine should contain between 0.14 and 2.42 mg per dL.  When I started out at CCWNC, they stood at 450 so plenty of room for improvement.  By May I was down to 2.47 but last week I was back up to 4.11 mg/dL, leading to the possible conclusion that my body was starting to reject the chemotherapy (stupid sod). So now I am being moved onto something more aggressive - Revlimid.  Read all about it at http://www.revlimid.com.  As it is a development of thalidomide, I am under strict orders not to impregnate anyone, the odds of which are about the same as my winning the lottery.  ...