Just Venting....

I just have to vent for a moment... and please don't take me wrong... I know it's all part of this process (and no, this isn't directed at anyone in particular, just an observation)...

We all know that the percentage of marriages that last get's lower and lower as the years go on, but do we walk up to the Bride and Groom and let them know that we don't think they will last??

We all know that the generations are getting steadily more corrupt, but do we walk up to a new mom and dad and tell them that we think they shouldn't have a baby? Or that we know they will fail as parents???

Ey-yi-yi... then why would so many people feel confident in telling people having this surgery that they doubt we will be able to keep it off (Since someone they know, didn't)...

Is it possible that we walk by SUCCESSFUL Gastric Bypass patients every day (who have kept it off and are continuing to do so)? We probably wouldn't know they were a success story, because they have made it thier lifestyle and they look like any other ideal-weight person...

We should all stop and think about it... because it's probably the case, just as we pass people in successful marriages and well-raised/well-behaved kids every day, there ARE people who succeed with this surgery, too!!

It's always the ones that don't succeed over time (marriages, surgery, child-rearing, etc) that people notice, but SOME DO! Let's have a shout out for them!!

I plan to be one of those people... but man... wish I didn't have to justify it so often!!

SURGERY DATE!!!!!!!!

Surgery is scheduled for August 12th @ 8:00 am!!!

I'm so excited I think I'm gonna pass out!! :)

Yeahoo!!! :)

APPROVED!!

Oh yeah!! I'm doin the dance!! :) Waiting on hold right now to schedule surgery date!! I'll update when I get it! :)

Wednesday's Update

I talked to the insurance company today and they said they are reviewing my pre-authorization request... so hopefully we'll have an answer soon! :)

• ** Updated : Doctor's office called me this afternoon to let me know that they had also called the insurance company, and that it was in the last step of approval and they felt it would be fast from this point... Thursday or Friday (hopefully).. So now we just have to pray for the perfect surgery date! :) (Can we say next week??) Well.. I guess we pray for "Approved" and then the perfect surgery date!

Update

Okay, I talked to the insurance company today, they said that they show they received the fax from my doctor, but they haven't built "a case" in the system for it yet... so that means its sitting on the nurses desk waiting for reading. Apparently, once the nurse reads the file, they build a case and send approval to the doctor.

The agent I talked to today said that it should be done this week, and that I should call back for update on Thursday! :)

Praying for favor!

Dear God,

Please help the insurance company to give us approval soon! (Monday would be good!)

Okay.. I admit, I'm feeling impatient...

I don't do well with limbo....

Please help me with that, too!!

Amen.

Just waiting for approval now...

Just got word that all information has been faxed to the insurance company, and now we just have to wait for their reply!

I'm soooo excited!!! :)

Last step..

Okay, I just got the call that my medical clearance letter has been faxed to the surgeon... so they should be submitting to Blue Cross for approval first thing tomorrow!!

I had to call and "light a fire" today, because they didn't seem in any hurry.. they said "sometime this week"... (are you kidding me? LOL)

So... needless to say, they decided to get it done today after all (no I wasn't mean, just insistent).

So now we wait some more! :)

Patience

Okay.. the picture is sort of true...

Still waiting on the primary care doctor to finish the clearance letter, so they can send it off to the insurance company... ey-yi-yi... can he hurry up already?? LOL!!!

Health Clearance

Well.. I had my doctor's appointment today (Primary Care Physician) and he cleared me for the surgery!! Yeahoo!

This part of the process was necessary for both the insurance company and the surgeon. He needed to look at my labs, verify that I don't have any health risks that would cause me to die in surgery, or after! :) I'm told they checked for any heart conditions, anemia, lung issues, etc....

So now we just have to hope that he can get his letter of approval to the surgeon today or tomorrow morning (he said he'd hurry! :)) , and then the surgeon's office will be faxing all information to the insurance company, and then Wa-la.. we wait for approval and a surgery date!! (Still hoping for first week of August.. think we can make it?)

I'm praying hard now... there's always the fear that since I'm a newly insured with this company, they possibly might feel it's too soon for them to be paying out for a surgery (though I did verify that I didn't have any pre-existing "hold" flags on my account/ID) And according to the surgeon's office, they usually see "my scenario" breeze through in a weeks time! So we are now praying for favor in that area...

Oh and this too... at the doctors office this morning I weighed in slightly below the BMI requirement (should have drank more water).. but the primary dr.'s letter of approval doesn't include those #'s ... the surgeons #'s are used... so we are also praying that the insurance company doesn't request the primary's chart information!! (Primary Dr. says he has never had to submit his chart for this kind of clearance)

So now for the most difficult part... WAITING!!

Any of you that know me... you know I'm not very good at this part... so we are praying about this too! :)

Lots of prayer in this post!! (Please join me!) :)

YEA!!

Just got a call from the primary care physician that has to sign off on my surgery (saying that the labs show that I'm healthy enough)...

I have an appointment at 10am on Monday morning!!! :) Yipee!!

After that appointment, only 2 more steps:

1) Insurance approval (which takes about a week)
2) Schedule Surgery Date.

Oh yeah... I'm doin the dance! :)

Here I go...

Well.... it's decided. I've been thinking about for quite some time now, due to some of the health issues and infertility that I live with, and now we're going forward.... I'm going to have gastric-bypass surgery!

I am so incredibly excited, simply because of the proven outcomes that I can expect. (God willing, of course) I have picked the brains of all of my friends that I know have had this surgery, and the one common thing that I get from all of them (along with lots of useful information, of course LOL) is that they can't remember much about the daily, weekly, monthly process.. just the highlights! They all say that they have no regrets and would do it all over again in a heartbeat, so that's wonderful.. but I'm a details girl. So I've decided to blog during my journey so that I will never forget!

Happy Reading... :) I look forward to sharing each milestone with you!