The first call...

Mar 06, 2010

Monday, March 1, brought a call from my case manager. I'm approved by my surgeon for surgery! This is great, although I kinda knew that would be the case. She is sending my case to the surgery scheduler and they'll be in touch in 7 - 10 days. From what I've read from other patients who blog here and who share my surgeon, it would seem I would be having surgery in about 3 - 4 weeks from my schedule call, or around April 1st.

I attended the monthly support group on Tuesday night, the 2nd, and was greatly dismayed to learn that someone there just got their call that day from the scheduler and she is scheduled on MAY 3!!!! That's eight freaking weeks away! How long is this going to drag on!??!? There are others who started this process at the same time as I did and they've already had surgery. One issue was my case manager didn't see my psych eval in my file (it was completed in December) and it took emails and calls back and forth to tell her that it was done. She had been waiting for it for two weeks until I reminded her that it was done already. Ugh! I can't imagine her case load and it has to be daunting, so I can imagine she must have skimmed over several of my emails and calls that they requested when we finished our testing indicating ALL of my tests were done, and submitted to them. They are so nice there, I surely can't be mad at them, but 8 more weeks? I'm becoming dismayed and really don't think about it or am I excited about it anymore. It feels like the ever-moving dangling carrot. It's possible the person at  group is using a different surgeon in the group or something, plus I'd heard that they only do lap-bands on Fridays (with my surgeon anyways) and this gal is scheduled on a Tuesday, so that could mean she's not on the same surgery schedule as I am. I guess I will wait and see when the schedule call comes in. It shoud be one day this week.

We'll see how it goes....perhaps I will be excited again once a date comes and it's not so far off.

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