First bill

Got the bill for the PFT before insurance. $1000.00! Crazy.. Still trying to decide what to do regarding having surgery or not. With the VEGF-D test normal range, they (as in Dr's here) still recommend having a biopsy, although now I am told only a VATS, instead of an open lung biopsy. The VATS is less invasive and the surgeon said he would start with that and if couldn't get /see what he needed would move during the operation into an open-lung biopsy. I still so do not want either. Just do not know what to do. Some women I have talked to are only out of work a week or 2 (I didn't ask what they did) and some are out for weeks. Some have no complications and some have many that last for a long time. Still others recommend I get no biopsy at all. Too many options leaves me unsettled. The holidays are coming and a family member may have to have major surgery in mid December and I want/need to be there for that. Maybe I should just have it soon and get it done with. I also want to have this surgery, if I am going to, before the end of the year since my deductibles have been met; it will save me quite a bit of money. That is really all that is new. I suppose that is enough :) Hope you have a wonderful day.