Fog Blog NB Lady's Costly U.S. Thyroid Surgery To Remove Cancer and Now May Have to Sell Her Hom

MY HEART ACHES ABOUT THIS STORY AS A NEW BRUNSWICK LADY BATTLING AN AGGRESSIVE FORM OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THYROID CANCER SAW ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO HAVE HER LIFE SAVED WAS TO HAVE A SURGERY TO REMOVE LUMP IN THE U.S. WHICH THE NEW BRUNSWICK GOVERNMENT WILL NOT PAY FOR BECAUSE THEY SAID THERE WERE CENTRES IN CANADA THAT WOULD DO THE SURGERY. HER DAUGHTER DID THE RESEARCH AND AT THAT TIME FOUND THAT THERE WAS NO WHERE IN THIS COUNTRY THAT WOULD DO THE SURGERY!......Marylin Steele says she has her life back but now her and her husband may lose their home that they built to pay the massive over $100,000,00 U.S. surgery bill the province won't pay for!!.......Marilyn Steele says she has her life back — but she and her husband may lose their home — after she underwent cancer surgery in Florida at the family's own cost because her doctor told them he and his colleagues agreed the procedure couldn't be done in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia.Steele, 73, a resident of Nashwaak Bridge, about an hour outside Fredericton, had surgery in Tampa within days of her diagnosis in December. She now has $144,000 in surgery bills that the province of New Brunswick refuses to pay.Her roller-coaster ride of pain and panic began on Dec. 7, when Dr. James Belyea gave her the news she had anaplastic thyroid cancer — a rare cancer that he said would kill her in months.Steele said Belyea told her and her family there was nothing he could do for her, and then painted a terrifying picture of what she could expect at the end.