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  • Comment by LavenderLoco on 3/11/07 7:45 pm
    Wishing you a smooth and safe surgery, speedy and easy recovery and all the best as you begin your exciting, life-changing journey. Many Blessings!
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    Wednesday is your day! Just remember you are on the journey of a lifetime. Try to enjoy every minute. It may sound weird now, but know that you are cared for and prayed for here, and all too soon this will be but a memory and you will be an inspiration to someone else. I am waiting for you on the losers' bench! ~ JudyAnne
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Insurance Let Down part II
on January 28, 2007 2:19 pm
I think my nerves are getting the best of me.  I am sitting at work on Friday balling my eyes out at my desk.  My assistant comes in my cubical and I guess it made her uncomfortable which I can understand.

My claim handeler at the insurance company told me that she has another 30 business days to reply to my request due to a page  missing from the application.  I think it was the tone that got to me.  As we all know we work and wait to put our lives into one persons hands.  Does this person know what you are going through?  Does this person understand the personal undertaking this has been on you?  Who knows.

That is where I am now.  She has  now received the one missing page which she took two and a half weeks to tell me she didn't have.  Thirty business days from Friday will probably be the next time I call, I don't think I can take another heart break like that at work!
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Insurance Blues
on January 26, 2007 7:49 am
Just got off the phone with the Insurance Company.  I was advised that they have 30 days to review my application and that they are short staffed and overwhelmed with those who are already in the hospital and since I do not have a pending date my application will be reviewed when they have a chance. 
 
So, that being said I think I will stop calling :-(
 
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My first post!
on January 21, 2007 12:44 pm

So, I have been a member of another site for about eight months now when a wonderful source told me to check out OH. My story I guess is like most. I was an overweight child which seems to get worse as I matured into my pre/teens. Being in 6th grade I was already 160 lbs and growing. By the time I graduated highschool I was 240 lbs and 5'10". I was large but also what I thought was in charge. Full of life an energy, ready to take the bull by the horns. Next came the freshman 50. Who are they kidding freshman 10?? Where were they hanging out?? Finally, I sit here as a 26 year old female weighing in at a depressing 310 lbs and am starting to fear my future and what it may or may not hold.

I have been going through the WLS journey for the past year. It all started with my first appointment where amazingly I was told that I had been approved!! I start doing all that is asked and then the brakes are brought to a hault. My approval had turned into a woops and a declination all in one fax. I needed to go through six months nutritional therapy. That doesn't bother me in the least I just wish that three months hadn’t past in the mean time.

So, here I am finished with my nutritionist and my application has been resubmitted. Spoke with my claim handler at the insurance company on Friday and she is going to be taking a three day weekend but will do her best to take a look at it on Tuesday. I am not going to get over excited or bothersome. If I don’t hear anything by Friday I will follow up with a friendly phone call.

Until then, that is my story in a nut shell!

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