Jessica H.

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I want to be healthy *so* badly... I'm just frustrated with my PCP. I know she's really helping me by making sure that I'm a good candidate for surgery before giving me a referral, but its just so frustrating to see people who are barely over 200 waltz right in!
She scheduled me for a stress test (where you run on the tredmill and have the EKG). I also have to talk to the dieticians, which I'm actually looking forward to. I have more labwork in 2 weeks, and another  set of labwork in 6 weeks.
I'm so frustrated with that prescription for the cholesterol. I've had a few people tell me that insurance will pay very close attention to how you follow the PCP's orders, but I can't afford $61/mo! Especially if i'm going to have to take in for more than a month! We don't qualify for any kind of assistance, but it's just like EVERYTHING is going on right now. We close on the house on the 30th. Tomorrow we'll be married 5 months. Time sure does fly. Now I don't have the wedding to stress about, it's all of this doctor stuff... I'm dreading getting the bills but I just have to remind myself that there is an out of pocket maximum for a reason.. and really.. is there a price on being healthy?
But I have to remember even though I didn't hit my out of pocket max when I was in the hospital in 2005, it was definitely a struggle to pay off those hospital bills. I actually *just* made my last payment to Genesis last month. They cut me off, I hope that doesn't affect my ability to go there for surgery!

Well, I saw my PCP again. Had to go in a week early because of the Cholesterol. My chem panel came back surprisingly well, except for my Triglycerides (Bad Cholesterol) which was over double what it was supposed to be. Oops. She prescribed me a medication that is supposed to help specifically this the triglcycerides, but it's a name brand and I have a feeling this is going to cost me an arm and a leg. 
She also wants me to get a stress test and talk to a diatician. Hopefully *then* she will give me a  referral to see a surgeon. 

I woke up with a horrible hypertensive headache today. I took a dose of my meds at 9pm last night and again at 9am this morning. I've still got the headache. It almost makes me wonder if the medicines are different at different pharmacies because this is from Walmart and I usually go to Walgreens......

I just called the pharmacy and my prescription is $69!!!!! WHAT!
I'm not doing this.

BLAH.....
    
      I met with my new PCP on Wednesday. She was more concerned with my chest pain over anything else and I had a couple of EKG's done. Lots of bloodwork too. I hate bloodwork!! I'm fine with needles but dang is that stuff expensive!
     I brought up WLS towards the end of the visit and she said that she wanted to get to know me better and we'd talk about a referral in two weeks when we went over the results of my bloodwork. But....she called WLS an "option", so as much as I want to be down about it, I just keep replaying that it's an "option" in my head.  Then...I get a call this afternoon saying that on of my tests, the Cholesterol came back "elevated"... and I said "Well DUH!" to the nurse on the phone...and then immediately apologized, lol. No surprise to me. So now I have another appointment, Monday at 11, right before work. Hopefully it won't be as long as the last one because I missed my appointment at our new house to get the bid on a new furnace! Thank goodness for Realtor's! 
   So on Monday I assume we're going to do something about controlling the cholesterol. Of course I didn't want it to be high but I knew it would be. But if anything good comes out of it, it'd just mean that I'm even more qualified for WLS???  I'm not sure why my last PCP didn't test me for it. 
   I did call the insurance company about my eligibility for WLS and it *is* covered, but there are about a thousand and one stipulations! Most of them are do-able but the one that stood out was "Must be on a medically supervised diet for three years". WHAT! I don't HAVE three years!!!! *uggggggggggh*
  
   
In other news, we got a LOT done today. Actually you can't tell by looking at our place that we packed so much because nothing looks missing *lol* but if you go into the spare bedroom you'll see about 30 boxes, floor to ceiling! And boy do my feet hurt! They're throbbing, actually. I need one of those footbaths!!

OK this is long enough. I'm just putting off going to bed.


I've made my profile all pretty :) I've seen some really cool ones on here though. My picture makes me look fatter than I am, why does is smash it down!!! haha!

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Jess ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥