Am I just apathetic.  Do I just not care?  I’m not sure.  I just have not been in a posting mood of late.  That is a shame as I do have lots to say.  We are starting to get EOBs from insurance for my chemo treatments in December.  I guess they take awhile to process.  Well, I can certainly understand why insurance balked at the rituxan.  I would even understand if a doctor, rather than an accountant, balked at it.  One dose (500ml) is $12,495.  That is somewhere in the neighborhood of $90,000/gallon.  How would you like to fill up your car with that?  Now insurance did approve the drug, and I am receiving the drug.  I just can understand, just a little bit, as to why they did a double take the first time.  The total bill for each round of chemo is about $16,000.  Add in all rounds of chemo, multiple CT scans, PT scans, the medi-port….this cancer will cost insurance about what I paid for my first house.  As much as I hate insurance at times, it is a good thing.  I think the system is broken and needs to be fixed, but it is a good thing.