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I got all my pre-op stuff set!!! on September 10, 2008 1:13 pm
Alrighty,
I finally got my call from Vicki from Dr. Inmans Office (Thank God) and I have all of my pre-op appoints and whatnot set!
I have my pre-op Class on: Thursday Oct. 2nd from 8:30AM-4:30PM..eek!
Medical Clearance and Physical on: Oct. 23rd at 2:00PM
Vicki is going to call me back and send me a packet out so after my 2:00 appointment getting my physical and stuff, they can go ahead and draw my blood and whatnot for my labs! So needless to say I am just ready to get this over with. I am not sure when they are going to do that Endoscopy or whatever it is when they stick a camera down your throat? When is this suppose to happen? Anyway, I am so happy that I am so close to getting my DS!
ONLY 70 DAYS UNTIL MY DS!!!!
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I gotta Date!!! on August 21, 2008 8:27 am
NOVEMBER 19TH!!!!
OMG GUYS I AM SO EXCITED! I can't control myself!!! *Does the happy dance*
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Approved!!!! on August 4, 2008 3:26 pm
Just wanted to let you guys know that I have been approved for my DS!!! I was approved August 1st! All I need now is my date and I will be all set. Hopefully that will happen in the next few weeks or so!!!  | Click here to leave a comment.
6 Month Pre-Op Diet (7th Visit)-7/24/08 (Final Visit) on July 25, 2008 7:09 am
Wow that 6 months went extremely fast! I seriously took it one day at a time, and it went fast! I ended up only losing 12 pounds all together, but hey it's better than gaining right? Anyway, I am a little upset and pissed for the most part. Anthem had changed their policy, and we were going to try for insurance approval after my 5th month visit. My office manager F****ing when on Vacation 2 days after I gave her my chart, and didn't reply to my e-mail or anything for two weeks! She finally e-mailed me back after her vacation stating that she would send my info to insurance on July 16th. Today is JULY 25TH! I have not recieved any word on weather she has sent my paperwork or not. I am getting extremely frustrated...IT'S LIKE JUST GIVE ME SOME ASNWERS WOMEN!!! Please. Just take 10 minutes out of your day and send my paperwork, and e-mail me back! How hard is that. OMG! I just don't know what to do at this point. I will just be so unhappy that I waited over a month for insurance submission, and then the insurance company denies me. I will probably just die right then and there. I have been trying to get surgery since I was 16! I am now 20, and I had to wait two years until I was 18. When I was 18 I didn't have insurance until I started my full time Job a week after my 19th Birthday. Ever since then I have been planning, jumping thru insurance hoops, and now my Dr's office hoops. It's just so annoying guys! Please pray that I don't kill somebody..lol. I'll talk to you guys later!
-Brok 
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Okay I just got a confirmation e-mail from Colleen stating that she sent my submission on 7/21 @ 12:35PM, which was a day after I called my insurance company. When I got the e-mail the insurance company was already closed, so I couldn't give them a buzz. Hopefully they are open tomarrow (Saturday) so I can check, or I can wait until Monday No Problem. I am just happy that she actually submitted the stuff! Even if it was 5 days after she told me she would. Please pray for me guys! I really want and need this surgery! Hopefully I get approved first go around! | Click here to leave a comment.
6 Month Pre-Op Diet (6th Visit)-6/26/08 (Insurance Submission) on June 26, 2008 5:24 pm
OMG! Time goes so freakin fast! This month went so rediculously fast, it was crazy! Anyway, this month I had fulfilled my requirements for attending a support group and I visited the Dietician as well, and guess what???? We sent my chart to Colleen and Dr. Inmans Office and she is going to go ahead and see if I can get approved from insurance off of 5 months!!! It seems like Anthem changed their medical policy back in April and had done away with the 5 year weight history and the "6 month" portion of the diet. JUst in case I do get denied, I do have an appointment July 26th which is my last appointment with Dr. Brooks! I can't wait guys!!! Pray that I get approved this time around! I'll keep you all posted
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Do Da Do Da Dooo...Went to the Dietician Today :) on June 5, 2008 12:42 pm
Hey Fellow OH er's
Today I went to the Dietician per my 6 month weight loss supervision diet Dr, Dr. Brooks. She been telling me since the second month to go, and I have been seriously procrastinating...lol, she also wants me to go to a support group and I was going to go tuesday, but I was so lazy! So I am going next tuesday.
Anywho, the dietician visit was actually quite informative to me. She said they way your "suppose" to eat now, is the way that you will basically be eating out of surgery. I need to eat my lean meats, cheeses, fish, milk..ya know The low fat, high protein foods, and stay in a range of about 2000 calories. My dietician also sai try to get complex carbs in! Whole wheats. Foods that are crunchy are harder to digest and keep your full longer. She said do this experemient. Get a Hard Brown pear. Chop it into little bite size peices and take 20 minutes to eat it and see how much satisfaction you get out of it. She said, you need to eat slow! It takes 20 minutes for your stomach to tell your brain that you are full. That is one of the things wrong with people nowadays is because they get these short 30 minute lunch breaks, and whoof down an entire meal in 10 minutes, and I know what she means because I am one of them.
I am pretty happy I've got a bit of guidance of what they want me to eat on this diet. Dr. Brooks was just telling me between 2,000-2,500 calories, and I am like of what foods? So I have two more months left of the diet and many months left until surgery, so I am going to try and make the best of it! Okay I am tired of typing, and that is pretty much it...lol, have a good one guys!!
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6 Month Pre-Op Diet (5th Visit)-5/30/08 on May 30, 2008 11:22 am
Man O' Man! Two more visits to go! How exciting!!! Anyway..lol, Dr. Brooks was a little mad at me. I actually gained 5 pounds this month, and I was mad at myself. The month started off great, I kepy my journal, I was excersising and everything, but it just all faded off like halfway through the month, and I became lazy and actually gained 5 pounds. In reality I probably gained 10, and lost 5 the first 15 days I was actually doing something. But anyway, things happen so you can't control it! Sooo...That's about it. Their is really nothing major to report. OH! I have an appointment with the dietician next thursday at 10:45. I think that's the 6th or 7th, I can't remember..lol, and I also have to attend 4 support groups, and so their is 3 next month and some in July, so hopefully I can get those in before my last day of my 6 month diet. Anyway, I will keep you guys posted!!! 
6 Month Pre-Op Diet (4th Visit)-4/24/08 (Halfway Through) on April 24, 2008 9:31 am
3 months down, 3 more to go! woohoo! I am at the halfway point, and I couldn't be happier. Hopefully the second part of my diet goes faster, and I have better results than my first part. Welp, with this visit I gained 1 pound of Muscle and lost 3 pounds of fat. So I was pretty happy that I didn't gain since my last month was so crappy. I told Dr. Brooks, that this is the final countdown, and I need to get my rear in gear! I am most definately looking foward to this nicer weather so I can actually go outside and wal the trails through the park, and whatnot. I still need to work on my better eating habits, and that is what is keeping me at low weigh-ins. So hopefully I can get my act together and lose my project 50 pounds before my surgery day. Other than that, everything has been great with me, and everything is going good. So that's all I have to say right now. I'll keep you all posted on my endevours :)
-Brok | Click here to leave a comment.
6 Month Pre-Op Diet (3rd Visit)-3/27/08 on March 27, 2008 10:16 am
2 Months Down, 4 more to go!!! Woo..I am glad that this is going at a good pace. It isn't going to slow, nor is it going very fast either..lol! This month, wasn't a very good month. I've been sick almost all month with the flu, cold, allergies, you name it. And I also gained 6 pounds, which I am not happy about. So I bascially weigh 2 more pounds than when I started..ugh! I promised Dr. Brooks that I would get my Rear in Gear and lose some weight! I told her, when I come back, I will lose a minumum of 10 pounds, and she was happy with that. Let's just say, that I will be happy when July 31st rolls around, so I can submit this stuff to insurance!!! I'll talk to you guys later, and keep you posted on my endevours :)
-Brok
I have decided to switch Surgeons and Surgery type on March 7, 2008 6:32 am
I have decided to go to Dr. Inman, and have the DS! I have my consult with Dr. Inman on Monday March 10!!! And I am so happy with the decesion I am making. I know that I am only 19, but with a BMI of 62 I really think that the RNY is the surgery that I was not looking for. I don't think I would be able to handle the fact that I would be throwing up, or having strictures...I couldn't bare it. I have never thrown up in my life, and that freaks me out! I know it doesn't happen to everyone. But I am willing to take my chances. But anyway, I am still in my 6 month diet phase and I am down about 10 pounds at 1 1/2 months! yay! This is serously the laziest diet I have ever done in my life, and I am not even trying. But anyway, I will keep all of you guys posted on my endevours! | Click here to leave a comment.
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My Story My name is Brok. I am currently 20 years old. I work full time for the State Museum, and I go to school Part time at Indiana University-Purdue university Indianapolis. I have been over wieght for as long as I can remember, and here is my story:
I was born in Indianapolis, IN on July 17th 1988. Lived here for about three months before me and my parents moved to Tennessee. I lived in Tennessee until I was about 5 years old, and then I came back to Indiana to go to school and be closer to family. When my first day of school came around, I was told that I was not going to Kindergarten instead I was going striaght to first grade, which I was very happy about. Now, before I go in anymore great detail about my life, I will tell you my weight at each "major age." At the age of 5 my wieght was around 100 pounds. On the first day of first grade, all i remember is being teased and rediculed as soon as I entered the first grade. It scarred me for the rest of my life. For the rest of that year, I never even tried to make friends, I just wanted to be alone. Even though I was the youngest in my class, my teacher always gave me praise for being the best, thus my peers were jelous, and at that age its not fun having alot of people against you.
Second and third grade passed with flying colors, I really didn't have any problems, maybe a few name callings here and there but that is about it. In fourth grade at the age of 8 my wieght was at 190 pounds. In three years I had gained 90 pounds! Most of my fourth grade year I was sick and was in the nurses office alot, while teachers were worrying about my health.
In 5th and 6th grade I went to Private school, which was so much better than public school. I got the friends that I had always wanted and I finally had been accepted for who I was. At this comfort level, I want to say that I gained wieght out of comfort and excitment, instead of distress and depression from my earlier years. In my 7th and 8th grade years I went back to public school. I had balooned to 275 Pounds. In only 3 years I almost gained 100 pounds! I was so embarresed, and was teased more than ever in middle school. I played football, basketball, and wrestled during my middle school years, so it's not like I wasn't active. One time that sticks out in my head is the time where I was 5 pounds over the limit to wrestle and I had to sit out. I was so embarressed and never played a sport again after that.
When it was time for highschool I begged my parents to let me go back to private school. At that point in time I was so super depressed that suicide did indeed inflict my mind, but I knew it my heart that I could never do it, but at the same time I knew I couldn't deal with any type of teasing that High school would bring to my plate. My parents accepted, and let me finish school in a private school and I graduated at the age of 16 in 2005. Since graduation my wieght has been pretty steady and really hasn't increased much. For the last three years I have been at around 425-430 pounds. A few months ago I had gotten as high as 445 Pounds, but I lost that 15 pounds out of fear, but I quit afterwards. Ever since then I havn't had any motivation at all, and bariatric surgery has been on my mind ever since I heard about it when I was 16. I just have never had the time, insurance, or any type of money for that matter to do it.
Since I have gotten a full time job with the state of Indiana I have aquired benefits and a new outlook on life. My hopes and Prayers is for my surgery to get approved and I can start changing my life for the better. My health is more of a concern than my looks. If I feel good about my health, then I can work on my looks. I hope to get the surgery before my 20th birthday, and it's just going to be a great journey in the making hopefully.
I want to share with you guys a few dates and events that has happened in my life that have caused me depression and may have caused my wieght gain:
January 1993-My dad went to jail as soon as we came from Tennesse. I didn't see him for almost 5 years.
July 17, 1997- My grandma "dads mom" died on my birthday at 5:00 PM from Cancer. (This affected me the most, and still does to this day. every year on my birthday, I can't help but think about her)
Febrauary 2002-Uncle Steve (moms Brother) passed away from a heart attack. He was only 30 years old and wieghed 400 pounds. I am now 35 pounds over his wieght and it is terrfying.
April 2003- My Grandpa "Dads Dad" Died from Cancer. At the age of 56.
September 2003-Aunt Barbara "My Grandmas Sister" Died from Diabetes. At the age of 53.
August 2005-Started college (I have never been so stressed in my life!)
Those dates have affected me in the past and alot still affect me today. I really hope that I can get the help that I deserve, I need this surgery to survive. I am willing to do whatever it takes to be the healthy person I know I can be. Thanks for reading my story guys!
-Brok A. Bunnell
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