My sister works in a doctor’s office and her doctor only charges $25 per visit for people who don’t have insurance. Have you contacted any doctors in your area? I would contact a doctors office and just ask the question. They also may be able to refer you to a place where you can get treatment without the huge cost. Doctors all stick together and I’m sure someone may be able to help you!!

Don’t let it go without getting medical attention. This is your life you’re talking about.

Good luck – hope it all works out for you!

You can listen to me.

My parents were in their 90-100 when they died. They both have cancer, but only mom died of her cancer. Dad died of old age.

When I was cleaning their house, I found a box of half-taken prescribed medications, none of the bottles were finished.

If they finished their bottles, do you think that would have prolonged their lives by a month? Maybe another year? I don’t think so!

My mom was diagnosed with skin disorder. Bullous Penphegoid (sp). If you Google it, it didn’t looked at all like that. Her body was covered with scabs of purplish marks, I thought she might have leprosy or something gross. They were all over her legs, arms, body, in all sorts of shapes & sizes of scabby looking purplish, NOTHING like that in the pictures. After several drugs & lotions they went away, a year later. Like I said, she never took all of her medications. Then, 2 years later she was diagnosed with Paget Cancer, it’s some kind of breast cancer.

So, call up the hospitals & doctors, I’m sure someone else could help you with $$$$$, someone out there I’m sure.

There are different types of skin cancer . . two are treated fairly easily by having them removed . . the other type is melanoma and in an advanced stage can be very serious. So it really depends on the type of skin cancer that you have and its stage as far as health insurance and being eligible for ssi is concerned. Two types of skin cancer are rarely if ever life threatening (squamous cell and basal cell) and can be treated in the doctors office . . you would need to pay out of pocket for this and it is managable. If you have an early stage of melanoma . . treatment will be more serious . . but probably financially managable (my mother is treated every few months for melanoma which is just removed from a location on her nose – she has no other treatment for it) If you have advanced disease than you may be eligible for social security if the disease is considered life threatening . .you would need to call the local SS office for an application.

The American Cancer Society offers links to resources to help cancer patients in your situation:

Health Insurance and Financial Assistance for the Cancer Patient
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MLT/content/MLT_1x_Medical_Insurance_and_Financial_Assistance_for_the_Cancer_Patient.asp

You can easily check your minimal health care rates in internet, for example here – healthquotes.awardspace.info