today

Mar 10, 2010

Today has been a little bit of a struggle for me. I have had a bad headache due to lack of food, but thats normal. Let me just do a little rewind of my past 9 months to catch everyone up.

I first attended a seminar for WLS back in July. About a month later, I started a 6 month dr monitored diet, due to the fact that it is one thing my insurance required as part of the approval process. While on the diet my dr put me on phentermine. It was great at first, made me lose 25 lbs in a matter of a month and a half. It didnt take long for my body to develope a resistance to it though. And after that it didnt work so well. I managed to get down a total of 30lbs on the dr monitored diet.  After my diet was finished, they were able to get my medical letter of necissity typed up, and sent to the surgeon. There were more tests that were required, like a scope, pulimnary lung functioning, Echocardigram, so after all those were completed we got it sent off to insurance for approval. For my insurance on requirement was to set a date as it was being sent off. Well silly me, didnt think that it would take very long, so I asked that it be set ASAP, cause I was ready! Ha! Well as it was still pending I managed to start my liquid diet on Feb 16th, and the first date was set for March 2nd. Started the diet, and time got narrowed down, and still never heard from insurance...

So then we bumped the date back to the 9th. Was able to go off the liquid diet just for the weekend but still restricted to 1000 calories. Well after that we waited and waited, it had been about 3-4 weeks since we sent it off for approval, and still heard nothing. I then talked with the dr office, and asked that we bump the date back far enough that I could just go off the liquid diet for about 4 days and then restart it.

So as soon as we did that (which was this past weekend March 6th) we found out that Monday it was approved! So Tuesday I started the liquid diet AGAIN! I am finding it kinda neasuating to drink these shakes after having them for 5 weeks, but then again getting used to them...

I go tommorrow to meet with the anestegoloist(sp), the dietition, and have blood work done.

Oh and since I started the liquid diet ive lost 13 lbs.

Starting weight: 303
Current weight:269

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