Emory!

This just in...

Dad and mom's insurance is with Kaiser Permanente. She has been with a top-notch oncologist for the last five years. However, with the cancer metastasizing into her blood stream that team of doctors basically said that they were out of options and couldn't recommend any further treatment. We were all devastated at this news, but weren't willing to give up the fight that easily. Dad and mom went to their insurance company and asked for a second opinion. The insurance agency said that the only group that they could approve was the same group of doctors that mom and dad had been working with. Obviously that was unacceptable given the lack of ideas, so they asked for some flexibility. The insurance told them to select groups that they would like to go to for the second opinions and then submit those groups for approval.

After turning in and being turned down for Cancer Centers of America (Chicago) and M.D. Anderson (The University of Texas), we got a welcome surprise yesterday: Emory was approved!

Dr. Perez and dad are researching doctors at Emory. Hopefully they can find doctors that will work with them on the treatment that mom is getting at Sanoviv that is proving so effective and that can be combined with the cutting edge treatment options right here in Atlanta at Emory. Emory is world class and we consider this news to be a gift from God.

By the way, the guy from Kaiser that was working on this with them told dad, "An approval to go to Emory for something like this virtually never happens." Thanks for praying!