Your treatment was long-drawn-out but I'm willing to guess that over the next few years they'll figure out ways to make it simpler and perhaps cheaper. While it's possible to complain about the high cost of medical tech (and super-sophisticated biology), we've gotten some huge benefits from things like laparoscopic surgery (my two arm rotator cuffs), better drug and surgical treatments for heart disease, super-fast care for stroke victims (I'm 5 minutes from a good hospital), and lots more. While the US is doing badly in terms of longevity (We have social problems, like the opioid epidemic and lately political opposition to vaccination. Poorer countries that emphasize low-cost basics beat us, like Costa Rica), we've made huge improvements in dealing with cancer and heart disease. Better orthopedics is enabling huge numbers of people to live active lives. Think hip transplants.