Can I get your opinion on my situation?
Hi Mary,
First off, my heart goes out to you. I feel your pain and frustration with wanting the help and not getting any answers.
I had a referral put in back in September for a checkup (I already had surgery in 1991), but needed perhaps a scope or something and that clinic wouldn't even look at my file. Luckily I found my old surgeon and he's going to take care of me or I'd be up sh*t creek!
What I would suggest is to call them yourself, personally, I would call every week and keep on pushing the importance of not only how you want this surgery, but how you NEED it. (As they say, the squeaky wheel gets the oil).
We have members at our support group that felt they had to leave the province to get a procedure done because they couldn't wait, but they had to self-pay. I understand sometimes the wait time in New Brunswick is quicker if your doctor and MSI will agree to it (I've even heard of MSI partial paying for the surgery in other provinces). This could be something you can look into.
All I know is we need to advocate in this province about WLS and not only adress the wait times, but the lack of support as well and fight to get more bariatric doctors working in this province with more OR time too!!!.
Best of luck and hope you get some answers real soon.
PS,....When I see my surgeon on Thursday (he's in Amherst), I am going to tell him about the long wait list and urgency of some people needing something done soon, to see what he says. I'll let you know what he says.
Take care,
Coreena
First off, my heart goes out to you. I feel your pain and frustration with wanting the help and not getting any answers.
I had a referral put in back in September for a checkup (I already had surgery in 1991), but needed perhaps a scope or something and that clinic wouldn't even look at my file. Luckily I found my old surgeon and he's going to take care of me or I'd be up sh*t creek!
What I would suggest is to call them yourself, personally, I would call every week and keep on pushing the importance of not only how you want this surgery, but how you NEED it. (As they say, the squeaky wheel gets the oil).
We have members at our support group that felt they had to leave the province to get a procedure done because they couldn't wait, but they had to self-pay. I understand sometimes the wait time in New Brunswick is quicker if your doctor and MSI will agree to it (I've even heard of MSI partial paying for the surgery in other provinces). This could be something you can look into.
All I know is we need to advocate in this province about WLS and not only adress the wait times, but the lack of support as well and fight to get more bariatric doctors working in this province with more OR time too!!!.
Best of luck and hope you get some answers real soon.
PS,....When I see my surgeon on Thursday (he's in Amherst), I am going to tell him about the long wait list and urgency of some people needing something done soon, to see what he says. I'll let you know what he says.
Take care,
Coreena
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