Holiday insurance

Hi Ajb and a very warm welcome to the online community which I hope you'll find is both an informative and supportive place to be.

I'm not a member of this group but the title of your post caught my eye.

I can see that you've joined the travel insurance group and wondered if you'd had a chance to look through the 'recommended travel insurance' thread yet, as it's where the majority of recommendations from other forum members are. If not, clicking on the link I've created will take you straight there. You might also want to look at this thread as it includes a link to a Travel Insurance Directory. 

Most people recommend that it's best to phone the insurance companies rather than try and do online quotes as often at the end of the online quote it will tell you to phone the company and you'll then have to go through all the information again. Also, sometimes the broker can refer to the underwriters to see if they would provide cover when an online quote might just give you a straight refusal. 

I do hope that you can get travel insurance so that you can book some holidays.

x

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I have had a similar journey to you, now on orliparib and I got worldwide travel insurance for a year with them for less than £500.

Hi Rosyred I am new on here and your post caught my eye as I am on day 4 of Olaparib, 4 tablets daily and have started to feel so sick today. I have stage 3c ovarian cancer, had 8 sessions of chemo then my debulking surgery in June followed by another 9 sessions of chemo. I am now on an Avastin infusion every three weeks and as I have the BRCA2 gene, have been prescribed two years of Olaparib, which I was dreading, having seen the list of possible side effects!

I have been really lucky that I tolerated the chemo well and I also had scalp cooling so still have about 50% of my hair which is very thin but I expect it to improve over the coming months. Nobody I meet realises I have cancer, which is the way I like it as on the whole  I look pretty well - disgustingly healthy a neighbour remarked!!

I have remained positive throughout and am the first to admit that occasionally this is a struggle but I don’t know any other way to live. I have been told there is a 20% chance of  a cure but that my treatment is really palliative and that the cancer is likely to return in 18 months.

I would love to have some holidays abroad while I am still reasonably fit, particularly with my husband, two adult children and two little granddaughters who are my reason for living, but I am frightened of all the germs, particularly as my white blood cells are already depleted. I would be grateful for any tips that you might have regarding the Olaparib and am hoping that the nausea is only temporary!

I might add that I was 70 this year and my husband and I celebrate our golden wedding next May. I appreciate that I am a lot older than many ladies on this forum and trust me I realise how lucky I am. My own mother died at age 62 and that is probably where my BRCA2 came from although she died of secondary lung cancer and my father was not allowed to tell me that she had cancer at all - oh the conversations that we could have had….

If anyone else out there has any tips I would love to hear from you.

Hi Rosyred

Thank you for replying to my message. I'm afraid I don't have any tips for you but wanted to say how similar we are. I also have stage 3c cancer. I was also 70 this year and we celebrated our golden wedding anniversary a couple of weeks after with all our family around us. Earlier this year I thought I wouldn't be here to celebrate and am so grateful to all the medical staff who have helped me through. I will see my Oncologist in a couple of weeks and will then start on Niraparib, which I think is similar to Olaparib. All the travel insurers ask if I will have further treatment. I know Niraparib is immunotherapy but not sure if this is classed as a treatment. I would like to get annual travel insurance to take as many holidays as I can this year. I am aware that ovarian cancer returns in other parts of the body and want to make the most of this year, and hopefully next year. I will phone Insure With after I have seen my oncologist, thank you so much for your suggestion.  

I wish you well and hope your sickness lessens in time. 

Sorry, I think I should have replied to Liviginhope.