I hate to talk about things going right, because I'm worried about jinxing myself, but I wanted to say that I have my LAWL file sitting on thie desk in front of me.  My old office was closing (as have many of them...I don't think that co. is doing so well), so they were like "just come on in, you can have your file if you want it."  I think they were happy to have one less thing to move!!  And my very wonderful billing coordinator called to say that so far we have the green light to at least submit to insur...they say the billing code my surgeon's office uses is good.  So we're one for setting a date this week and seeing where we get.  At least I'm moving forward.  I just can't wait to get this done with!!

Well, my second consult went very well.  Better than the first one (at least I only had to quit smoking for 8 wks, and have already done that, yaaayy!).  So now the next battle is the insurance co.  I was surprised to hear that this dr, who was the first in CO to even do this procedure and has many under his belt, has NEVER had an insurance co pay for the VSG.  I thought I was going to cry when they said that, but then I figured, hell, why not be the first one!!  So now I'm just moving forward, hoping that I get approved.  I have to do a nut class this weekend, and have a shrink appt on Wed, so after those are done we can pick a date and submit for pre-approval.  I'm so excited I'm can't even tell you!  I'm working on getting copies of my file from LAWL.  They're such morons over there...I can't believe I paid them MONEY!!!  Last time I went around and around w/them and drove there 3 times to end up w/ a copy of my original contract, which I already had in my file cabinet.  Hoping I have better luck this time.  Maybe they have their shit together now.  But other than that, I'm just waiting and praying.  Last night I was in tears, convinced that the insur wasn't going to pay, and even if they would that my DH is going to get another job and change insurance before I could have the procedure, and even if those things didn't happen the sky would fall and none of it would matter.  There was just no convincing me that things were going to work out, but today I'm feeling much better.  I'm still getting over whatever this bug is that we had.  So keep your fingers crossed for me!!

Well, tomorrow I'm meeting w/another surgeon.  I'm looking forward to it, but also very nervous because I can't get a handle on what their process is at this dr's office.  I'm such a control freak...I can't even wait a couple of days to figure this stuff out.  Anyway, I'm now getting nervous about waiting very long for the surgery, not just because I REALLY want to do it right now, but because I'm worried DH is going to change jobs, therefore change insurance co's, and this whole thing is going to get F'd up.  I really want him to get another job, because that would be good for all of us, but I just wish it could be a couple of months from now.  Well, I guess God will do what he thinks is right for us, so I'm trying not to stress about it.  But I am looking forward to tomorrow, and will post more after the appt.  Wishing myself good luck...             

Well, you can see that I didn't have my surgery yet, and didn't even post about how my first consult went.  I was too busy pouting.  It went very well...the only bad news was that I couldn't have my surgery at PSL until I had quit smoking for 6 months.  Now I had already called the CO Quit Line, set a date, and planned to quit, but I was pretty disappointed because I had been hoping to have the surgery in March.  But I'm proud to say that I did still quit, and haven't smoked since March 2nd!!

So, I was thinking I would wait until the end of summer to get back to this because my SIL and I were going to do the Avon Walk.  But we flaked out (for many reasons), and so I decided to get back to work on setting up a new consult.  I was a little frustrated b/c the first surgeon I met with told me that "pretty much all" surgeons in the Denver metro had that same policy.  Well, I found out today that the new dr. I have an appt w/(2 wks from tomorrow) only requires 8 wks of no smoking before surgery, and I've already met that requirement.  I was glad to know that, but a bit upset that the first dr was discouraging me from going anywhere else by lying to me.  But what can you do?

SOOOO, I'm on to bigger and better things.  There are many other reasons I'm not sure that office, staff & dr were a good match for me, so I'm looking forward to my appt w/another surgeon.  Hopefully it will work out better.  I've kind of gotten out of the loop on this stuff because I was busy feeling sorry for myself because this didn't happen when & how I wanted.  But I'm trying to look at it as a learning experience, and glad that I can be moving forward.  So I will definitely keep up better w/this page.  Let's hope the next appt goes better.  I'm soooooo ready to be rid of this weight for good!