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I am getting nervous.  My surgery time is three days away.(not counting my surgery day of coarse. ) For anyone that might be reading my profile and has not had surgery yet.  Don't give up. If this is something you feel strongly about having...follow it through and don't give up.  You will have obstacles , but if you are persistant it will pay off.

November 1st will be my surgery date.....wow I can't believe it.  ONly a few days away.  I feel all of my emotions tangled up together.  I have wanted this so long.  I am just so ready to have the surgery and put that part behind me.  I know that there is a lot of work ahead after the surgery; but I am willing to face it and take it on.

I just couldn't help myself .  I thought this picture was so cute .  I had to post it on my profile.

I just got a call from Annie , the coordinator at my Dr.'s office.

I have been approved for surgery.

PRAISE JESUS

I go next Tueday.(Oct. 23rd) to set up a surgery date with my Dr.  My surgery should be sometime in November.  I will know definitely next TUESDAY.(Not that anyone other than me is gonna read my blog; but just in case I thought I would add some info.  My paperwork was submitted to Tricare on Oct. 17th, and I got the approval on the morning of Oct. 19th.  It took about 36 hours for me.  Not too bad really.

Well I wish I had good news, or really any news at all.  It has been two weeks from this past Monday that I took my psyc. evaluation.  It should not have taken this long to get to my Dr.; but I guess they got behind on my paperwork or something.  I called Tricare to see if everything had been submitted for my surgery approval.......nothing showed up.  So I called my Dr.'s office and they said they still had not received my psyc. evaluation.  I knew it would take between a week and a half to two weeks for the psyc. Dr. to type up everything; but it has already been nearly three. The insurance person at my Dr. office said that she would call tomorrow and find out about the hold up.  She was very , very nice and said that it wouldn't take long for Tricare to approve once submitted.  I know in this situation no news is really good news because it's not like I have been denied or anything ...Yet.  I just feel very nervous about it. So I guess it will be at least the middle of next week before I know anything.  I just feel so helpless and sad at the moment.  I guess it is dumb really to feel this way; but I do. So I am feeling down, down , down in the dumps at the moment.

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           Still waiting ...trying to pass the time by keeping busy and keeping my mind off of it.  I know that my Dr. will prob. not have my psyc. evaluation in to the end of the week, and then my Dr.'s office will have to get all the paper work together from there and submit it.  So that will prob. take another week.  Tricare according to the coordinator at my Dr.'s office only takes 24 to 48 hours to approve the surgery.  I do realize that the paper work must be submitted correctly or it will be denied.  I am just so antzy and ready to have the surgery already.  I just wish  I knew already, and that I had a date.  

I guess this is just a part of the process to.  Everyone has to go through the anxiety of the waiting process to some extent!!

I am praying to God for approval.  I know it sounds so petty with everything else so horrible going on in the world; but with all my heart I want this operation so badly!!!

  Well , today was an eventful day.  I went this morning to my psyc. evaluation.  I was pretty nervous about the whole thing.  I know they tell you just to be honest, and it is not something that they use against you so that you will not be approved for surgery.  Even so, in the back of my mind I was really just uneasy about the appointment.  The Dr. was really nice.  She just asked me the usual questions about my family and background.  Of coarse, she had the odd questions of "Do you feel you have any super powers?", and "Do you see ghosts?"  Very strange, but I guess she has to ask some off the wall things.  I then took three tests.  I guess they are what you call personality tests.  There were probably four hundred questions on these tests all together.  (True and False questions)

That was the last of the appointments I had to complete!! Yeah!!! It will take anywhere from one to two weeks for the psycologist to type up the results and send to my Dr.  Once all paper work is sent in to my insurance I should know "yah" or "nah" in two and a half to three weeks.(hopefully a little sooner..God willing.)

I also got my cpap machine in today!! Center Home Health delivered it to my house and showed me how to hook it up and care for it.  It's really not as big and bulky as I thought it might be.  Hurray!!  I thought Tricare was just going to rent me one...but they bought it for me!!! It is very nice!!! Tricare is a great insurance to work with.  So far I have not had any problems with anything.

I completed my physical theorpy appointment and my nutrition class today.  I really enjoyed both.  I had them at Southeast Alabama Medical Center. I guess you could call it a class I worked on a one to one basis with a physical theropist .  That was really nice.  I had to walk ten minutes on a treadmill .  I had my blood pressure checked before after and during. Then I had to do some stretching exercises and she measured the angle and told me that I needed to improve my hamstring muscles; which I already figured that to begin with.  I am out of shape and overweight.  Then she gave me three resistance bands to work with before and after surgery.  She said it was still very safe to do these right after surgery.  I had the nutrition class right after.  It was also on a one to one basis.  She pretty much went over everything that my Dr. had already went over; but I guess the insurance companies want to make sure you understand the requirements after surgery.  She was really nice and gave me a couple of samples of protein drinks and a copy of the basic rules of nutrition after Gastric Bypass Surgery.  All in all not a bad way to spend two hours.  At least I got two classes out of the way.  I did have to pay 175 dollars for the two classes out of pocket; but to me it was worth it .  Of coarse the nutrition and physical theropy class had much more information than I am able to fit in my little blog, but I tried to cover the main parts.  I am very glad to be that much closer to  completing everything. WooHoo!!!!

I am adding this to give me courage in the months to come!!!

Back to Normal After WLS

Normal is living without co-morbidities: asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, heartburn, and knee and back pain.

Normal is feeling your body in motion, walking up stairs briskly, and bending to tie your shoes.

Normal is playing children’s games on the floor and getting up without struggling.

Normal is hearing compliments about how great you look.

Normal is ACCEPTING compliments about how great you look.

Normal is fastening an airplane lap belt and pulling it tight.

Normal is enjoying clothes shopping.

Normal is the thrill of amusement park rides.

Normal is waking up early to jump on the scale – and thrilling at the number.

Normal is living without the incessant distraction of food and the relentless hunger.

Normal is feeling proud – not ashamed – of your body.

Normal is savoring food one bite at a time, not ravaging it.

Normal is having the power – the tiny tummy - to control eating behavior.

Normal is eating three meals a day and not snacking in between – and doing just fine.

Normal is feeling immediate discomfort when too much food, or the wrong food is consumed.

Normal is taking vitamins every day.

Normal is drinking water – lots of water.

Normal is enjoying exercising!

Normal is boundless energy.

Normal is a positive outlook, not fearing the doom of an early, miserable death for obesity related health complications.

Normal is eating lean protein at every meal.

Normal is declining doughnuts or pizza – and not feeling deprived!

Normal is making healthy eating and behavior modification a lifestyle for the whole family.

Normal is quality food, not gluttonous quantity.

Normal is taking responsibility for your own health and wellness.

Normal is respecting the science of your body, respecting the tiny tummy, and respecting yourself.

Normal is constant attention to weight maintenance.

Normal is feeling deep compassion for the obese.

Normal is being scared of the rapid transformation your body makes.

Normal is bouts of anger over years of self-loathing, discrimination, isolation and suffering.

Normal is the occasional departure from the rules that results in dumping or vomiting.

Normal is a rapid return to appropriate eating behavior.

Normal is seeing, for a time, a stranger in the mirror.

Normal is freeing yourself from obesity’s prison.

Normal is understanding that the pre-surgical behaviors and habits were unhealthy, destructive and abusive.