swedeville1
Got a date!!!!!
May 12, 2010
I was driving home from work yesterday when I received a phone call form Karen at my Surgeons office. She started off by saying that she had been looking over my PCP write ups from the last 4 months and had a concern about my weight. I started off at 400 pounds in January. I slowly but steadily lost weight since then except for my 4th month. I gained 3 pounds from the previous month, but had still lost 7 pounds overall. She said this was a concern because this shows the insurance company that I may not be a good candidate because of weight fluctuation.... OK i guess I can see her point but my immediate response was that I had still lost overall. She acknowledged that but said that this kind of weight gain could still hurt me in getting approved. I then told her that I was in my surgeons office just last week and according to her scale I was down to 383 pounds...doesn't that count? She said good job but no because that paperwork wasn't being sent in to the ins. company. So, I guess I will have to make sure that I demonstrate a continuous downward trend.After all of that talk she said since it looks like you have everything else taken care of except for a few pre-op tests we should go ahead and schedule your operation. We decided on a July 29 as the date!!!! Whaa hoo! I'm very excited to finally get a date. Now its just a waiting game. I will have to focus extremely hard on continuing to lose weight and I am going to take this time to start living my life like I am already post-op. Time to put the exercise on high gear and start looking into maybe doing some meal replacements with protein drinks. Hopefully i can find a drink or two that I like. The ball continues to roll. Wish me luck!
Swede
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About Me
Mount Pleasant, PA
Location
39.1
BMI
Surgery
07/29/2010
Surgery Date
Mar 25, 2010
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