I made it back!

Well, my nutrition class was fine. My psychological eval was ok. All we did was talk for about 15 minutes, and that was surprizing.  I had to watch a video which took 30 minutes. My nutritionist is funny, and she kept on laughing when I would bring out all my samples, bottles of water, my bottles of boullion, and all my packs of crystal light! LOL  She thought that was good that I even carried the stuff with me! So, after I leave there, I am driving along, and decide to call Dr. Shinas office. Just to politely let them know that I was done with the nut and psyche evals.  They connect me with some woman I have never heard of before over there. She procedes to tell me that there is no weight documentation recorded, and if she were to submit it today, my insurance would DENY me!  I said......."You had better have all the records, I gave you 5 YEARS worth of documentation!!! AND, besides that, my insurance does NOT require 6 months of medical documentation of weight management programs!"  She said "So you want me to submit it when we get your evals and nut class papers in??? Even without this?"  I said again that they have over 5 years worth of documents, and she had better start finding it!    I was ready to blow my top!!!  So, after her smart-a$$ed comments, I told her to yes, submit it as soon as they get the papers in. Then I just hung up and started to pray!!! Pray that 1) I didn't drive over there and run over her foul mouth!  2)Pray that I didn't get so angry that it would make me lose my temper at anyone driving near me at the time in traffic! 3)Pray that I didn't just give up on everything!!!  4) And pray that if she submitted it as soon as they get my tests back, that she is the one to get the approval letter again as soon as my ins. sends it!  By the time I was out of traffic, I felt more calm and at peace.......just a little on the annoyed side more than anything else! I went shopping for a bit, and picked up a few things that my nutritionist suggested that I get.  I am on PRE-NATAL vitamins!!!  I just about fell in the floor laughing when she told me that was what they suggest!  I can see why, because it has everything needed all rolled up into one!  Now if I don't throw them up like I did when I was pregnant! LOL When I got home, I called the insurance company and notified them that I had already gotten done with my tests as of right now, and that my dr. would be submitting the papers in a couple days.  The woman on the other end of the line said very politely "Thank you so much. I will make a note right now to be expecting the papers then! I know you are getting so excited, and we are all happy for you here at the office!"  You have to remember, this is a small insurance office, and I have been on the phone with them all so much, we all know each other by first names! lol That made me really feel good that everything is going to be just fine!  Just keep your fingers crossed that the crazy heifer at the drs. office doesn't leave something out on purpose!

I hope all goes well for you.  If your insurance company does not require you to have 6 months supervised diet then you should be good to go.  hang in there..  Good Luck, you are on your way.. Dawn

If your insurance doesn't require the 6 months diet history and all it sounds like your gonna be getting your approval in no time.  We could only come up with 3 years weight history (even though my insurance doesn't require it either) for my doctors office because the last doctor I went to in Louisville wasn't around anymore and I couldn't find my records anyways. They submitted it and after submitting the second time (they supposedly couldn't find it or never received the first batch of stuff) my insurance approved me in like 4 or 5 days pretty much!!!  Sounds like your going to be a loser in no time.  What hospital are you going to in Louisville???

Nortons' Suburban Hospital is where Dr. Shina does all of his WLS. I like that hospital, it seems very nice and is all updated! It just ticked me off when that woman said that she didn't think I had enough weight loss info on there!  The nerve of some people! LOL

Heh and I bet driving in Louisville didn't help! LOL  That has got to be the worst city I've ever driven in! I despise having to drive down there, especially fighting to get over the dang bridge anymore! Heh  Maybe when you go in we can come see ya since we're in Louisville quite often (thats where my brother and sister and neices live) sooooo we'll see..

I would love that, Misty. You are right, getting across that bridge was murder, especially at 7 30 am morning rush hour traffic!

OH hubby's radio station is promo'ing the heck out of that concert at french lick this weekend. We could have had free tickets but had to pass up on them because we've got soo much going on! I was excited bout going and maybe meeting you but we'll have to wait til next time!

I wish you could have come, I will be working, and I would love to meet you!  I am sure that there will be a bunch of people here for the concert. It is supposed to be a great one! Maybe next time you get the chance, you will feel up to coming down! We will have to make plans!

If nothing else when hubby is in one of his driving moods we'll have to meet up sometime. He usually has a day or two each month where he just likes to take off driving. We end up in Bloomington and Brown County a lot just for fun!  I'm feeling pretty good today! I got about 70 oz of fluids in yesterday which was awesome! I think things are finally turning around for me! I'm excited now and walked about 2 miles earlier and we'll take a nother walk this evening!!  Do you have a myspace or yahoo IM or anything??

Yes, I have myspace. You can search for me as kitti_kat_22 or LaChelle Rick...........look me up!