Fewer and Fewer Hurdles Everyday

Jun 18, 2010

Today, I had my FINAL 12 month medically supervised diet.  As I've mentioned before, my insurance required this 12 month diet.  I diligently kept every appointment.  Personally, I believe that this 12 month period is excessive.  The reason being is that diets RARELY work!  Haven't each of us proven this over and over and over again?  I did not actually lose any weight during this time.  Some months I was up and some months I was down.  Overall, I remained right where I was when I began last July.  BIG SIGH! 

I also found out that the ApneaLink pre-screening test results are borderline, but the dr. is requiring a full sleep study.  I tried to explain to the nurse that I was planning to have surgery in the next month and that a sleep apnea machine for me would hardly be worth the insurance money.  She would not budge and gave an example of a person having sleep apnea and then taking their narcotic pain meds post op.  The combination of an apnea event and the narcotic caused death for this person.  I thought that by having this surgery MANY of the co-morbidities would disappear almost overnight???  I was frustrated with this development.  I do not want to die and my life certainly isn't worth taking the chance, but I am very much dreading the sleep study.     

My hurdles at this point appear to be the following:
1.  Sleep Study
2.  Surgical Consult
3.  Insurance Approval
4.  Pre-op Diet
5.  Surgery
6.  Post-Op Diet
7.  Adjust to My New LIFE!!!

Every day it seems that my hurdles get fewer and fewer.  Although, I'm not saying that these new few hurdles aren't HIGH, because they most certainly are as HIGH as any have been.  I am just so thankful that the list is shorter and shorter. 

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