I have been lucky enough to have Pra as my client for many years; she has to be one of the most positive people I know. She has had to bear some hardships in the past year and she shares some of her experience with us:
Last year in March I was saddened by the death of a friend who had been battling with breast cancer for a year. After this point I was a lot more aware of my own health and a small lump prompted me to visit my doctor. It was only the size of a mosquito bite so I was not too concerned at the time, my doctor being cautious got me into to do a mammogram. I had taken medical insurance years earlier from Hamish Patel at mortgagesonline.co.nz and was able to get a biopsy done within hours of the mammogram.
The results were in within a couple of days and my husband asked me about my hurried search for the medical policy documents. It was then I told him the sad news from the doctor – they had found three aggressive tumours deep behind the initial lump. It had turned out that the lump I had found was not the major concern, the three tumours were. And unfortunately of the type that grew fast.
The next few weeks were a very sad time, my kids and my husband were even more devastated than me. Sashi at mortgagesonline helped me a lot during this time, ensuring within days that One Path had approved my entire claim for the treatments which were to follow.
Within a few weeks I was on the operating table, everything happened so quickly. I was eager to get the cancer out of my body. The three grey lumps about the size of a pea were extracted. I had great support from the team at Breast Associates and my surgeon Wayne Jones. The chemo started not long after this operation and there was a lot of stress on my body. I was in a support group with some other breast cancer sufferers going through the same experience, not all of them made it through.
Because I had caught the cancer so early, before it had any chance of spreading, my prognosis looks good. The burden of the experience was made that much easier by dealing with a supportive broker, Sashi from mortgagesonline.co.nz always kept me in the loop with the payment side of things. And taking one of the best policies in the market from One Path, ensured that 100% of the costs to date has been covered. This has amounted to more than $110,000.
I strongly feel that anyone on an average income would struggle to meet the costs for private treatment which averages to be $150,000 in total.
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