I saw a comment over at Ambiance that you had been having some difficulties lately so I came over to see what’s up. Sorry to hear about the bladder cancer, but I can add my voice to those who know success stories. My mother was diagnosed with this in the summer of 2007. She went through the BCG treatment and that worked for awhile.

I don’t know what you’ve read or been told, but this will keep coming back. It will come back more frequently if one keeps up certain bad habits. mom won’t stop smoking, for example, so she her doctor keeps finding more tumors. Currently Mom is going through a second round of BCG treatments, and will continue the once-every-three-months checkups afterwards. It’s cancer, which is bad, but highly managable if caught early and treated well. I wish you guys the best of luck.

(I also know two others that had bladder cancer, and their stories roughly track my mother’s. So your personal sample space of successfully treated patients has now expanded by three.)

What I simply don’t understand is how newborn twins could overwhelm anyone. (That’s a joke, btw.)

Good luck!

Thank you for weighing in with some good personal information on your experience with military health care. I posed a few questions back for you. i came up through the old CHAMPUS program which I understand from old timers, was a lot more liberal in its coverage. I have only the experience of retired vets on Tri-Care and I’ve heard them say it’s not a patch on the old CHAMPUS. But again, that was back in the day when places like Walter Reed were state-of-the-art.

Please feel free to add anything else to the discussion or email me. I’m interested in finding more about people’s current experiences.