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Finally have it all my information together!
on February 2, 2012 7:45 am
It took me weeks of calling and faxing and freating, but, I finally have all 5 years of records.  My insurance cordinator e-mailed me last night.  She said she thinks she has all of them in her office.  She was looking them over.  I'm kinda on pins and needles. 

I have NO IDEA what these records are going to say.  Did I gain enough in 2008 after my try with WW?  What about 2009?  It's odd that I have to worry about not gaining enough.  Isn't that just backwards?   Are we not supposed to show we have TRIED and FAILED to lose weight over the years?  Ugh.. I'm just worried I'll be punished for trying too hard.  Guess it all depends on who looks at my files. Uh hum... can't do anything about it, but, wait.
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Sometimes you just gotta laugh! LMAO
on January 28, 2012 7:33 pm
A couple of weeks ago I called UHC asking for old records of visits from 2007 to 2009.  I wanted to see what providers I went to. I can't remember anything from 2009 and I wanted to see who I saw in 2007 and 2008.  

I opened my mailbox this afternoon to find 45 letters from UHC.  LMAO

Yeah, I got doctors alright... along with every perscription I filled in 3 years.



Edited to add:

Hey, I think I might have found something! It took me opening 40 envelopes, but, I saw a doctor 2/24/2009!  I DON'T remember this doctor's name.  lol  It's under my name, though! Time to fire up the printer for my release form!
 
I sure hope she was at the same office since then! Just wish it was later in the year!

Oh, another thing.  I think I'm going with the Nicholson Clinic.  Dr. Nick is a great doc and I've heard lots of great reviews. Also, Plano is A LOT easier to get to... all I have to do is fly down the Dallas North and George Bush Tollroads!  I would have a heck of a time going to Colleyville for appointments with Doc. Kim.  The highways are WAY too messed up over there!  


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Gathering history and an epithemy
on January 15, 2012 9:25 pm
I've been worrying myself into a fit this past week. My consultation with Dr. Kim was only last Wednesday and I've been running around all over the place trying to track down my doctor's notes. haha

Note to self: from this time on make sure to keep one doctor while living here! Sheesh

OMG For a 5-year history I think I'll need to find at least 7 doctors because I am not exactly sure what doctor I saw when.   I have a feeling the year 2009 has no dates.  I thought I did, but, I the doctors I thought I might have seen say I didn't see them that year.  Great... All I remember is being extremely irritated at myself for failing Weight Watchers after hanging on and fighting for SO very LONG.  I didn't want to face my doctor at the time.  Maybe I didn't?  I DON'T have a clue. Ugh.

Who expects to have to remember this stuff years later?  I even went as far as to call UHC and ask them for a list of claims for a few years so I can have something other than memory to go by. The rep. said that would take two weeks.  (I think I'll drive myself crazy before then!)  

On a different and more sane note.... lol... I've had an epiphany.  Reading websites like ObesityHelp and going to a seminar,a consultation and speaking with another lady at the office after it (she was giving me lots of "tips" in the parking lot) I am very aware that WLS is not a "magic weight loss solution".  Yeah, I knew that already...It's a "tool".... BUT, then it came to me... I need to eat like I've already had the surgery done a long time ago (with modifications... normal size stomach).   I've decided that no matter what happens with my insurance approval (I won't be able to get it without insurance)  I WILL change my eating habits to reflect a more post-surgery type diet NOW... not a weight loss "diet" but the general term diet..  

I quit sodas with caffeine in them two weeks ago (It'll take longer to quit all soda). I've started to write down everything I eat with a running calorie count total.  I'm trying my best to get enough water, eat protein first, stop snacking and not to drink with meals.  I'm reading as much as I can on how people KEEP weight off - whether by WLS or the 5% who diet their weight off.  

There is A LOT of stuff to read and absorb.  My biggest problem with WW was not the way of eating or tracking or whatever. Heck that became second nature after a year.   A very LONG stall derailed me.  I believe I hit a set point at 189 lbs..  Instead of getting pissed at myself I should have kept on going.  I need to learn this as I believe this is the KEY for me to KEEP THE WEIGHT OFF no matter how I do it.  I bet if I had kept on eating right I would have eventually RESET this set point.  It might have taken a while, though.  Surgery patients DO have stalls (I never really thought of that until I started reading forums).  This will help me in the future.  
 

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Getting that letter of Medical Necessity
on January 3, 2012 11:17 am
One thing I love about my doctors office is that I can get an appoinment with them the same day if I call in the morning.  That's what I did today.  The bad thing is it's a "clinic"... so, I don't know which doc I'm going to get.  I haven't figured out their schedule.

I printed out the one of the surgeons I'm consulting with list of things I need for insurance.  I also wrote out a letter of Medical Necessity (with the doctor's name blank lol).  I'm hoping the doc will like it and will use it.  Save them time!  I don't know why I am in a hurry. 

I just want to get all this paperwork hunting overwith.  Finding all 5 years of doctor's notes is going to be fun fun fun.  I have been to SEVERAL doctors in that time because of moving and/or being dissatified.   I even went to carenow and am asking them to send me my records/notes.  I know they weighed me when I went there.  


EDIT:

Well, I just came back.  The doctor said she'd write the letter for me with all the information needed.  She was going to do it for me while I sat there, but, her computer locked up on her (of course! ).   While I was there I got medication for the blood pressure and the irritating rash I have on my upper thigh/lower stomach area (It just won't go away! ugh).  She said both of those are good to document if you want surgery.

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Note to self: Stop worrying about insurance
on January 2, 2012 1:30 pm
I'm driving myself nuts thinking and worrying about my insurance requirements. argghh... I wish I had a single PCP over the years. For a while there I was trying to hunt down a doctor who would prescribe, keep me on and keep me at a good level on my Armour Thyroid meds..  That was a bear.  

My 5 year history is spread all over DFW. lol 

STOP WORRYING.

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My Story

What can I say about my story... hmmm... Well, from the very beginning of my life in Nov. of 1973 one Stephanie was born fat. I was a chubby toddler, a "slightly obese" kid, teen and teenager.  The only experience I have in my life of being close to "normal" was at 15 years old when I exericised myself one summer to 150 lbs.. I felt and looked pretty good... funny, though, my bmi would have been "slightly fat" . haha

I'm 38 years old now. My body has annoyed me, and, dissappointed me long enough. I'm the type of person noone except my close family would know I am upset about anything. If I were British I would have been one proud and fat girl with a "stiff upper lip". It's come to the point that I have finally am admitting and deciding I NEED HELP... not a "diet", but, a tool.  Now all I need is my insurance company to agree with me.