Not Diagnosed yet, blood in urine

Thanks Cynthia! I'll give it a shot!

So I feel like the hospital is holding my cancer hostage. I do not have health insurance and have paid for my CT scan ($395) and my cycstoscopy ($300). My urologist says he will only charge me $650 for the Turb and the hospital says it will be 20K! I am trying to qualify for some financial aid and they are having me jumping through hoops and the hoops keep changing. I am going out of my mind. I am supposed to have the turb on Tuesday but I doubt that will happen now. I went for PAT on Friday while my Mom was in the ER because we thought she had a stroke (she did not) and they cancelled my appointment because I was self pay and they had not approved me. The business office cannot wrap their head around the fact that I am gifted 14K a year to care for my Mom, who is stage 6 of Alzheimer's / Dementia. I guess I will have to put off my Turb until I can find somewhere to have it done reasonably. The hospital actually told me to find a stand alone surgery center that does not have the overhead that they do.

I am waiting for the scheduler to call me this afternoon for the surgery. So glad I found this forum weeks ago when I was self diagnosing. Turns out I was right.