First Consult , Insurance games
Had my first consult with the surgeon today. It was a long day. First I saw the psychiartist who cleared me. Whew....thought maybe they would cart me away instead Then I saw the dietician who went over my diet pre and what is expected post surgery. I will have to start making changes now as I am addicted to Mountain Dew 
Then I saw the surgeon who said that I am a good candidate for lap RNY. After seeing all these folks individually, all the WLS patients who had appts today had to go to a Q&A session with the surgeon. He expained the surgery to us all, drew pictures, talked about mortality rates, etc. He just was very upfront about everything. He did not try to sugar-coat anything. He even told us to make sure that we had a friend or family member stay with us in the hospital because there is a shortage of nurses and wanted us to be aware of that and that the patients who have family or friends stay with them, tend to get better care. As a nurse myself, I know that this is true. 
Anyway, I get OT.
We were told that everyone who had an appt today with my surgrion could look forward to having surgery around the end of March, beginning of April. I am so very excited to have gotten this far in the journey. We were told to fight! fight! fight! 
our insurance companies if we needed to.
He even told us that the insurance companies would throw paperwork away to keep stalling in hopes that we would give up. He said something really funny, but also sad and makes me mad 
when I think about it long enough. He said this:
INSURANCE COMPANIES WILL TRY HARD AND TRY ANYTHING TO "INSURE" THAT YOU DON'T GET YOUR SURGERY 
So that is how my first consult went. Next week I go for the mandatory class with the dietician and the nurses who work on the gastric by pass unit at the hospital. 
Hope I haven't bored anyone and I apologize for the long post. But I had to share my happiness and to validate what a lot of us knew already...that insurance companies will purposely try to screw us out of our surgery if they can. 
Shame on them!!
Thanks everybody. Have a good night.
Nancy 
Then I saw the surgeon who said that I am a good candidate for lap RNY. After seeing all these folks individually, all the WLS patients who had appts today had to go to a Q&A session with the surgeon. He expained the surgery to us all, drew pictures, talked about mortality rates, etc. He just was very upfront about everything. He did not try to sugar-coat anything. He even told us to make sure that we had a friend or family member stay with us in the hospital because there is a shortage of nurses and wanted us to be aware of that and that the patients who have family or friends stay with them, tend to get better care. As a nurse myself, I know that this is true.
Anyway, I get OT.
We were told that everyone who had an appt today with my surgrion could look forward to having surgery around the end of March, beginning of April. I am so very excited to have gotten this far in the journey. We were told to fight! fight! fight! our insurance companies if we needed to.
He even told us that the insurance companies would throw paperwork away to keep stalling in hopes that we would give up. He said something really funny, but also sad and makes me mad when I think about it long enough. He said this:
INSURANCE COMPANIES WILL TRY HARD AND TRY ANYTHING TO "INSURE" THAT YOU DON'T GET YOUR SURGERY
So that is how my first consult went. Next week I go for the mandatory class with the dietician and the nurses who work on the gastric by pass unit at the hospital.
Hope I haven't bored anyone and I apologize for the long post. But I had to share my happiness and to validate what a lot of us knew already...that insurance companies will purposely try to screw us out of our surgery if they can.
Shame on them!!
Thanks everybody. Have a good night.
Nancy 
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