Year 2 Day 4--Sigh

Dr. Tse has now officially left CU and Colorado, and since we knew this was coming, we've been working on transitioning Torger's care over to Dr. McSweeney, who's affiliated with Rocky Mountain Cancer Center, the most established bone-marrow transplant clinic in the state. He keeps regular office hours here in Fort Collins, and Dr. Tse felt very comfortable turning Torger over to him as a patient. BUT we just got notice on Friday that Rocky Mountain Cancer Center will no longer be accepting our insurance, as of January. The idea that the largest and most reputable clinic in the state can just suddenly become inaccessible because they can't work with Blue Cross is frightening in and of itself. If CU were to have a similar issue, we'd be in big trouble...there just aren't that many BMT facilities around. So we're keeping our fingers crossed that nothing happens there. And in the meantime, we have to figure out another plan...most likely involving finding another doctor at CU who will take on Torger's case. It's disappointing, because we were really looking forward to having a doctor closer to home. Torger's local oncologist, Dr. Romero, has been very attentive, but he's not a transplant specialist. Torger's really tired of having so many medical appointments anyway, and when a simple check-up takes up most of a day, plus an hour and a half drive each way, it's especially wearing. Oh, well. We'll figure something out.