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 Well today is wednesday and i am hoping beyond hope to hear something from my insurance company today. I was told that the right surgery code had been added and that everything has a green light to go. I will believe it when I see it in writing myself. I shouldnt be so negative but after the battle that i have fought to get this approved and then to have the wrong approval i am a bit unbelieving. I wish that the insurance companies would understand how important it is to their clients that they not screw around us. We are desperate people who want to live and be healthy. For most of us surgery is our only way out. We have tried everything else. I dont think i have learned patience thru all of this, but maybe tollerance. Unfortunately i have gotten an attitude that this will never happen anyways. That having surgery to lose weight has been a dream and only a dream. The closer i got to reaching my goal the farther away i really was. It was like a bad dream,,approved, but approved for the wrong surgery.. Wish i had someone to blame but what good would that really do? Have i given up? NO WAY!!! I will climb that mountain and i will reach the top. Maybe its not so much about getting there as it is about they journey itself.   Maybe i need to slow down and smell the flowers along the way. We do only get 1 ride arount this merry-go-round and i want mine to count for something. Oh well, things to think about while i am still WAITING!!!

 I cannot believe I am writing this again but I have been approved for the wrong surgery a second time. I am on the phone dailey with the insurance specialist at my surgerons office and with my insurance company. For some strange reason wires are getting crossed and i am trying not to lose my mind. I have even asked to talk to supervisors hoping beyond hope that someone can help me figure out this crazy mess. In the meantime i am back to waiting and not a bit patiently. I can feel and see spring and so want to begin my new life. I look at myself in the mirror with such disgust. I know that gastric bypass surgery is the only way for me to get healthy. Hopefully i will know something by this weekend. 

  Well today sucked. I found out that the insurance specialist at my surgeons office submitted the wrong code for my surgery. My insurance company approved of the lap band and not the gastric bypass that i so desperately need.Now the right code has to be resubmitted and approved of. I could scream!!! I have done all the required work and this one mistake by an "INSURANCE SPECIALIST"  is the straw that broke the camels back. I reialize that she is human and mistakes happen but this is too much. Now i cannot schedule surgery until the correct surgery is approved of. I soooooo want to dive into a whole cheesecake to make me feel better, but that would only make me feel worse tomorrow. I have no idea how long this process will take. So back to more waiting,,,,,, and waiting and waiting,,,,,,,,    Sorry everyone but I really need to vent.

 First off I need to say thank all of you for your prayers. God heard and answered. I received my phone call today from my surgeons office saying that my insurance company APPROVED my gastric bypass surgery.  Now I to have to have an upper gi test done and complete a 2hour presurgery class. I should get my surgery date by next week. I cannot believe I have made it to this point. It doesnt seem real. Seems like I have waited my whole life for an opportunity to be a normal size. I expect to wake up anytime now and find that this has all been a dream. Thank you Heavenly Father for this wonderful opportunity. I will let everyone here know when I have my surgery date. Once again thank you all for your support, I wouldnt have made it this far without all of you. HUGS HUGS AND MORE HUGS!!! Christi

 Well after reading blog after blog on this website I decided to be my own advocate. Since the insurance specialist at my biriatric doctors office isnt helping me any I decided to find out exactly what I needed to have and then make sure my insurance company had it. I cant say how I accomplished this great feat but I got it done. My insurance company now has everything they should need to approve of my surgery. I even got a wonderful guy named ned to expedite my case. Hopefully the results will be what I have been praying for. Now I shouldnt have to wait another 3 to 4 weeks for a decision. I am expecting my answer this week yet or early next week. Anyone reading this please say a prayer for me. I will update as soon as I hear anything from my insurance company. 

 I have decided to put surgery out of my mind for a little bit and enjoy my new grandbabies!!  They are two months early and quite small in size but very healthy thank God. I got to hold little Gracie and boy did I enjoy that!! They are such miracles. I cant wait to start spoiling them. They will have to stay in the hospital until they get bigger weight wise. Hopefully they will be home in a month or so. I love being a grandma.   Just another reason for me to get and stay healthy!!!!!! 

After several telephone calls I think I finally got everything the insurnace company needs. I am crossing my fingers. Hopefully dont to wait another 30 days to get an answer. This time I am going to stay on top of things. If my surgeons office dont do the job then I will. I will not give up on this dream. I gotta admit that with all the stress that this is causing me to have I want to raid the cubboards and refrigerator, but I am staying away from both of them.On a much better note my daughter gave birth to two beautiful babies on the 6th. Grace and Jake jr were born 8 weeks early and are very very tiny but doing well. Grandbabies!!! What a blessing. I now have something else to think about. My grand daughter weighs 3lbs 4oz and my grandson weights 4lbs 2oz. I am so very proud of my daughter. She had natural child birth with no pain meds!!! The doctors said they would have to stay another 6 to 8 weeks at the hospial. Me and grandpa cant wait to start spoiling them. Thank you God for such a wonderful blessing!!!

Now that I have finally stopped screaming I thought I would update my blog. I called my insurance company on  Monday March 4 to check yet again on the status of my request for surgery. I was informed that there was information missing that they still needed before they could approve my request. I found out that the insurance company did not count my first visit with my regular medical doctor as part of my 6 months required diet. I knew that they would not count my initial consultation with my bariatric doctor but I read thru they requirements they sent me and no where on the paperwork did it say they didnt count the visit with my own doctor. My regualar doc referred me to a dietician who I seen for the next 5 months. Then to add insult to injury when I called my biaratric doctors insurnce ladys and told her what had happened she said she had not herard anything. She acted like I had overstepped my boundry. Now she wont return my calls. Lucky for me I had another appointment with my dietici an on monday also. So I had my dietician forward my appointment information for that day to the insurance specialist who had better forward it to my insurance company. I am truely considering changing bariatric doctors. If this is how they treat me now I wonder how it will be when I really need them. My husband is having his initial consultation with his bariatric doctor on friday and I am going to see if they are any good any talk to them about changing over to their clinic. Looks like I have time to shop around.   

Ho hum, I am still waiting. Today I called my insurance company yet again. T hey told me to have the doctors office call their  preapproval department and check on the status of my request. When the doctors office called me back they said they had been told that the preapproval department is very behind, of course, They should make their decision sometime next week. I am very frustrated to say the least. I so want to get my surgery date asap. So much for red tape. Sometimes I would love to tell the insurance person at the doctors office what I think of her. I picture her as a very slender young woman who doesnt care that someone like me is so desperate to get have this surgery. She has this pissey attitude that makes me so angry. I wish she had some compassion for my situation. I realize that she is new at her job so I am trying to overlook her rudeness. I am trying  also to remember that this is all part of my journey.   

I didnt realize how impatient of a waiter I really am. I appear fine on the outside but on the inside I am barely hanging on. I have found myself overly hungry and I realize now its because I am a nervious wreck. I know I have to hang in there. I am advoiding the kitchen whenever possibe. Trying to stay busy and focus on my daughters baby shower this weekend. I have no idea how I will feel when the insurance company makes it decision. And so the journey continues,,,,,