"My Health Insurance Company Is Risking My Life"

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Daily Kos, Aug. 6, 2022.

Last month I was diagnosed with a melanoma inside my right eye. I had some vision blurriness, so immediately went to my optometrist. He spotted what he called a “freckle” in my eye, and gave me an emergency referral to an ophthalmologist.

The ophthalmologist diagnosed a “large melanoma” in my right eye. Dr. Google told my wife that survivability with a large melanoma in the eye is less than 50% at five years. She fell apart. I was sent to an ocular oncologist and got in the next day. She diagnosed the melanoma as “small” — which is a function of the thickness, and said I have a much better chance of long-term survival than we thought... More + 109 Comments,
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