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01-26-07...Well after giving things a lot of thought I think I was just frustrated yesterday because I worked so hard getting everything that Vandy would need and when my doctors couldn't get their stuff together I was just angry. I shouldn't have been angry at Vanderbilt but more angry at my doctors because they had two weeks to prepare this stuff and it doesn't take long to fax something. I just couldn't believe the service that I paid for. The nurse practitioner called me today and after talking to him I just felt better for some reason. I was told that my shrink got on the ball and sent the psych eval this morning and next week they will be preparing it for the insurance approval. That is the most important thing to me. I can wait a month to see for my next visit, I am just so anxious to find out if the insurance is finally going to give in this time. I've waited for 3 years now.  So for now all I can do is chill out and wait and see if my insurance will finally cover this. I should have everything that they wanted. I also decided that I personally wouldn't feel comfortable going to another doctor. This seminar and hospital has really left an impression on me that I don't think is going to go away anytime soon. I appreciate this clinic for being so through and it shows me that they don't care about the 30k, they care about making sure that I am going to be able to physically handle this surgery and have a minimum risk of anything going wrong.  We as patients are more than just numbers to them, we really are on their conscience.

Well, 



01-25-07well I finally got my letter of support from my PCP. I also had my first appt with Vanderbilt today and I was amazed at how through they are but at the same time I kinda felt like my time was being wasted because after I was done talking with the nurse practitioner I was scheduled for my first little "nutrition" class like a month from now! I was so angry, I think this office schedules stuff like this just to make the process from first appointment to surgery to take like 2 months. I know I could have had a sooner appointment. If I was to get approved today they would schedule my nutrition appointment a lot sooner.  Then on top of that, the nurse practitioner needed all of my darn records from my PCP. You'd think the darn letter of support would have been enough. I guess not. The only thing good about this appointment was that the Nurse practitioner was very kind and he medically cleared me, and tried to keep me from feeling discouraged, but I just felt like crap when I was told that I couldnt see this nutritionist until a month from now. Then on top of that I still have to attend two group meetings.  

This is a program like i've never heard of and I understand that they have good intentions and they want people to really benefit from this surgery but as a woman who has been studying this surgery and the different methods that doctor do for the last 7 years, I really don't feel that I need to sit and do all of this. This office should go by only the insurance requirements. If insurance approves you then forget all of this other stuff.. Just do the damn surgery for crying out loud, don't they think i've been fat long enough already!?! They waste peoples time and money with all of this extra crap.  They are possibly getting damn near 30k, why keep trying to suck money out of me?


The group meetings are going to suck because I get to watch a bunch of people who look pretty and lost lots of weight and my fat a$% is in there looking like a complete ugly fat loser listening to all of their great experiences and how perfect they are now. They've got what i'm trying to get, why the hell do I need to look and listen to them? The heck with their experiences i'm ready for my own for a change.

Meanwhile I found out that my so called Shrink didn't even fax my psych eval to this office because his lazy self hadn't "gotten around to it yet". I did my psych eval two weeks ago. Thats ridiculous! 


So now i'm trying to regroup and think of what I want to do. I am thinking about just going to the doctor out of state. He will get me in surgery quicker without all of this nonsense. I only have one appt with him and thats for 5 hrs and then they send everything to the insurance company and if approved I get a quick surgery date.  I didn't want just anyone operating on me but now i'm getting desperate and most of all i'm frustrated. Right now the way I feel I don't care if I pick the wrong doctor and something goes wrong at least I don't have to worry about looking like Ms. Piggy anymore. This is how Vanderbilt made me feel after I thought so highly of them.

1-22-07- I went to the doctor and had my letter of recommendation and my letter of medical necessity done.  This is an extremely crucial piece that is needed for insurance approval through BCBS. The transciptors will start on it and I was told that it will probably be ready for pickup on Wednesday! And then I can fax it to Dr. Richards office. YAY!

01/01/07- Today is new years and it will be a happy one indeed. I evalutated my weight loss for last year and I'm not satisfied. I was on a liquid only diet along with a weight loss drug and I only lost 28 lbs. I am a very obese woman and it runs very deep on both sides of my family and I don't want to end up bedstricken or dead like them.  I am at the point now where I have everything that the insurance company would require for me to have surgery. There was a doctor that I was interested in years ago who is far out of state but now they are going out of business.  I am going to looking into finding out if there is a bariatric unit at my favorite and best hospital: Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, TN. 


01/03/07- Well all the businesses and mail delivery are back running and alive again. Thanks to Obesity Help I did find out that there is a very good Bariatric Center at Vandy.  So I will be attending their seminar next week.



01/05/07- Two amazing things happened today. I saw my PCP today and My PCP is going to take some bloodwork and recommend me for surgery! I also found that I have had been seeing this doctor longer than I thought my insurance requires one year of supervised medical weight loss and I had been doing this for 2 years. Time really flies. So I have more than enough history that the insurance will need. The last time I wanted surgery my insurance denied me and this was the reason why, because I didn't have the one year of medically supervised weight loss under my belt.  Furthermore, besides trying to get surgery today was very special because the love of my life proposed marriage to me!. Ahhhh! I'm so happy and shocked at the same time. I love him with all my heart. I have made myself a promise that I will not walk down the aisle looking like this wearing a  huge plus size 20. Plus sized dresses are so ugly to me, they don't make them like they do the smaller ones. This man loves me for who I am and could careless if I lose weight or not but my personal feelings is that if I am going to open the door and spend the rest of my life with someone and awaken to new adventures then I want to awaken to the new me.  There is so much to live for and I haven't enjoyed the full effects not only because of my weight but all of the other things that ties into it. Most of all I don't want to end up like my family members I want to be able to enjoy the family that we will make together someday.



01/09/07- Tonight I went to a seminar at Vanderbilt University Bariatric Center. I was very impressed and they were very informative, and didn't stall on any questions. Most of all they have the procedure that I want which is Laproscopic Gastric bypass. I don't care for an open one. I will definitely be calling to set up a consult. 


01/10/07- I called the office first thing this morning and I got an appointment. My first appointment will be on Jan 25th! I'm so excited. In the meantime, I'm filling out all of my paperwork that came in my packet that was given to my at the seminar.

01/11/07- I completed my psych eval today. I wasn't nervous at all because a couple of years ago I had one with the same doctor in my first attempt to get approved for surgery through my insurance company. 

01/19/07- Well I missed the bariatric group meeting today. I wanted to go there an talk to people who actually had it done here at Vandy.  So I will be sure to go there next friday.  Until, then I have lots of great things happening next week. I will go and see my PCP