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I started my wls process in 1998, it took 6 years for the insurance to deny me 5 times and then in 2003,my brother was killed in a tractor accident.  I was then the only child my mother had left.  I had been told by 3 different drs that I would'nt live to be 35 years old, I was 33.  I received my retirement fund statement in the mail one day and while looking over it, I thought "I have enough money to pay for my own surgery and if I don't have it done, I will not live to retirement anyway"  a few minutes after this realization, my mom called me (from the cemetary) and said that when my brother was alive he and she talked about me alot and he said that I should have the surgery done no matter what I had to do to get it done.  She said standing at his grave those memories of the conversations came back to her and she realized that with our retirement funds she and I could have this surgery done.  This was on a Wednesday afternoon and I had already done the research and went to the seminar at Centennial so I called them to see when I could get an appt.  When I called, Dr Houston answered his own phone which blew me away.  I told him of all my co-morbidities and of the denials.  He ask me when I wanted to come in, my reply was that it was too late for me to get there today.  He made me an appt for 2 days later on Friday.  I knew then that I was a miracle in progress, because who calls a dr in Nashville and gets the surgeon on the phone and the gets an appt 2 days later.  If this isn't a show of God's plan, I don't know what is.  When I left Nashville on Friday afternoon, I had went to the hospital and had all my bloodwork completed, talked to the nutritionist, had my pshcye exam and was scheduled for surgery the next Wednesday.  So within a week I went from not knowing how i was going to be alive much longer to having the opportunity to live and be healthy.  So I call 2/25/2004 my rebirth day.