Tammi H.
Still waiting
Nov 30, 2011
Still waiting to hear back from Daniel, will call back Thursday or Friday if I don't hear from her by then. This waiting game isn't my kind of game, isn't mine at all. I will keep pressing forward until I get some sort of result, possitive or negative.
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Two weeks is up
Nov 28, 2011
Two weeks is up, so yesterday I called Danial (not sure of her spelling ) and left a message, she will most likely call me back while I am gone today at an appointment or tomorrow while I am gone at another appointment. I seem to have at no less then 1 a week and up to 3 or more, the normal range is 2 a week tho. It gets a bit exhausting, but with the multiple things I deal with I must keep up on top of things. Don't want to let anything slack at all. So must do what I must to keep as healthy as possible. So this is the newest news, just waiting to hear back from Danial on what and or when I will be getting in and getting seen. I want it NOW, but know NOW won't happen. I could hear from her NOW, like in a couple of hours so at least I would have a date, that would be soothing to me, more so then this not knowing.
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Still waiting
Nov 25, 2011
I am still waiting to hear back from Daniel, and with this being the Thanksgiving week it might be longer then 2 weeks but I am still calling when the 2 weeks is up. She told me to so I am, will post what the results are. A good part of me says I will get the revision, but another part of me thinks they will just kind of sweep me under the rug and I will be left at 230ish for who knows how long, or more even, and Lord knows I can't be more, I don't do well at more, if I get more the walker will come back out, and I will be in so much more pain then I am at this time. So I have to really push and drive it into them the need for this. Plus I have no idea what all is going on inside of me, I only had 3 follow ups with my surgeon and that isn't a good thing at all. So they might do the revision just to go in and make sure everything is going well, and what isn't they will revise. Something like that I sure do hope so. Well there isn't anything more to write, just that I am staying between 230 and 235. Guess that is ok, can't stay at this, I really need to see less and soon. So surgery please happen? Lord God, see my need, hear my cries, know my heart, thank you Father God, Amen.
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1 week left to wait
Nov 22, 2011
I am on edge waiting to hear back from Daniel at UWMC because if I don't hear back then I will be calling them again to find out if the Dr has had a chance to see medical records and when will my consultation appointment be. So nervous and stressed I am sadly turned to food and gained 5 lbs. of course it could be water retention from the day I had to fast for dr to take/run tests on me, I drank so much water trying to keep my stomach full feeling as to not feel hungry. But it could be from the junk stuff I have been eating lately also waiting for the UW to call me back. Will update as soon as I hear more from UW, or if I really feel the need to write and vent or share like I did today.
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Heard from UWMC
Nov 16, 2011
Heard back from UWMC on Tuesday, it will take about 2 weeks for Danial to get records from my dr's and then for the dr I will be seeing to go over them, then she will be calling me no later then 2 weeks to make an appointment, sure pray for this 2 weeks to go super fast. Then I won't know how busy the Dr is and how long it will take to get in, but once I have an appointment it will be a little easier on me because I will have a date to work forward to. I have to plan for transportation to take me there, which mom is going and so there will have to be a van or bus that can hawl her chair, I am not going to go this alone in Seattle in such a huge hospital, omgosh I would be scared to death, it helps to have mom with me. But for me to get medicaid to transport me my dr has to send in a referral stating reason why and nooe for the trip to Seattle where I live in Tacoma. A little work, but it can and will be/get done.
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Will get into UWMC, just when?
Nov 12, 2011
Been since 2007 since I moved out here to Tacoma Wa from Grangeville Idaho trying to get in to get seen by a gastric bypass dr to do my follow up care, well come Monday I will give UWMC * University of Washington Medical Center * to make an appointment for follow up and also perhaps a revision, now that would be really wonderful. I really need follow up, and advice and even the revision for I went from 320 to 180 was looking real good, then gained back up to 265, and now am stuck at the 230s, was the 240s until Kelly put me on water pills which took 10 pounds off, felt good to loose those 10 pounds but it wasn't by anything I did on loosing or trying to loose, so don't even know if I could loose even if I was to be put on a strict diet. But will jump through whatever hoops they tell me to jump through in order to get the revision or to loose weight again, cus something has to change, either I do and or the insides of me does. Now I wonder how long it will take me to get in to get seen by this UWMC? The longer it takes the worse it will be on me because it will be just awful waiting for the day to arrive. I am hoping it will be like Rockwood and now take very long at all. Will post and keep up on what all is going on and what may or may not take place. I am thankful that I can call tomorrow and make an appointment to get in for one appointment and then there after will have to get referrals from the dr and wait for insurance to confirm it. It is a good thing, just I can be impatience at times.
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Perhaps things are looking up
Nov 05, 2011
Just got a referral to UWMC of Seattle, so maybe it is a good thing, just have to wait for my insurance to confirm the referral before I go thinking that all is a go. I have been hoping and praying for a revision for awhile now, even with low vitamin d and calcium for awhile, but that is getting all worked out, just have to take some over the counter stuff. So since I am almost 100 lbs over weight by there idea of what I should weight, so lets see what happens. Knowing the way this has been going I won't get it (revisition) and I will remain over weight at 230ish to 240ish for who knows how long. I also need to make sure that I am doing well. Because I have never been looked at, so need tests ran to see if there is everything working right, sometimes I don't feel my tool is working as it should be. But Praying I will finally find out and get many questions answered.
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Frusterated
May 26, 2011
This insurance thing is stressing. I might have to go over 400 miles back to Spokane WA to have the revision, because no one here seems to want to take both my United Health Care and Medicaid. One will take one but not the other, while the other won't accept the other. GURRRRRRR. I live in Tacoma, close to so many places that you would think I could/ would find a place near by, right, well WRONG... I will go those 400 miles or even more if I have to in order to get this done. Have lost 10 pounds and with just this little bit I am feeling pretty possitive, could you imagine even more weight loss and how I would feel? I would feel like WOW!!!, AWESOME!!!
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Of course
May 20, 2011
Here I go again. Insurance says that they will cover my revision, but UW of Seattle says no. Dr Wright of Seattle said he will do the procedure, and my PCP is pushing for it to get done. So called up my insurance and told them that I will most likely be leaving them for another insurance that the hospital will take, they gave me a number to give the hospital to get this thing taken care of through them. Well lets see if it works? I sure home so, I need this badly, every joint is screaming at me whenever I have to do allot of walking or standing.
Good news great news
May 16, 2011
I am very happy to report that I have finally found a PCP whom cares and takes action. He has in such a short time set me up with an arthritis specialist and an E.N.T. Valance Dr, but the best of them all is that I have been approved for a revision, so it will take place soon. Just have to make sure that all my i's are dotted and t's are crossed. 
Now I am nervous that I will have to change medicare coverage (advantage plans) and that may mean I will have to 
wait, and let me tell you, I am so praying 
that won't happen. But am feeling better, even if I do have a little wait, it is better then to not know what or when it will happen. I am very blessed.
About Me
38.8
BMI
Surgery
02/26/2007
Surgery Date
Jun 03, 2006
Member Since
Before & After
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just before my tummy tuck. Not getting to do much moving afterwards I regained 50lbs, so bumbed.
155lbs
