A little leap forward

I got the call from the plastic surgeons office. Luckily he's within Sharp and rotates between three locations around San Diego. Another stroke of luck, he'll be in the location closest to me next Tuesday. So I get to meet with him, get the details of what is involved, how long I will be expected to be in the hospital and out recovering.
I also got two pieces of mail from Sharp detailing that the services they've scheduled and with who.
What I am having done is called a Simple Mastectomy with a Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy. As I think I mentioned, the breast reconstruction by Federal law (I looked it up) is covered automatically by insurance.
Standard wording on the note kind of spooked me, 'You may have a copayment at the time services are rendered.' So... I went to my insurance site, looked up what my expected services were going to be. First it was a series of drop down menus and choices... I chose Outpatient Surgery and when it got down to the last entry... Co-payment is $250.
Ummmmm... okay. I chose a different series of terms using In Hospital Surgery and the cost is $0.
I will know more after my talk with the surgeon on Tuesday. So far I've only had to pay for two doctor visits at $15 each. MRI, biopsies, mammogram all covered 100%.
According to one scenario I may be in the hospital for a day or two because I'm having reconstruction right then. Actually the article I read said 2 or 3 days depending on my comfort level and how things progress afterward.
As I've mentioned, this will be the first time I've been in the hospital for longer than a few hours sitting in an emergency room since Devon was born.

Oh, when I was chatting with a customer at the fabric store she seemed to feel I could just 'diet' away my cancer. Something about an Alkaline diet that changes your physiology to fight cancer off.
Well, she's going to leave me with a CD from this doctor about it. I'm really not confident that this can be avoided just with changing my diet. Diet changes can take months or years to affect your biology sufficiently. I don't want to take the chance.
And on that note...

Scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
   -Nikola Tesla