Nicki F.

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I was cleared for surgery today.  I'm getting nervous and I'm worried I won't have everything I need for when I get home.  I'm worried that I haven't done everything for work and I haven't told everyone what they needed to hear for my cases.  I'm worried my house won't be in order and chaos when I'm home drives me nuts!!  I'm glad my daughter will be at her dad's anyway.  I'm not sleeping and I'm constantly tired.  Maybe I'll take some sleeping medicine and put myself to bed.  4 more days to go!!

I started the pre-op diet yesterday.  I thought it would be a lot worse than what it is, but it really wasn't.  I spent so much time trying to make sure that I actually did eat all meals yesterday that I forgot to drink water!!!  I'm the same person the MD told to quit drinking so much water because she thought I would drown myself - go figure.  On a different note, I think my boss' wife is having WLS done.  I told a lie yesterday and told him that my "surgery" was for my throat.  He was asking me very detailed questions about it.  I'm a horrible liar.  I've thought since the moment he said his wife was having surgery that she was having WLS because she's a healthy girl.  So, when I asked him what kind of surgery she was having and his reply was she really doesn't want me to say - that sealed it in my mind (not to mention that he is like an open book sometimes and what he doesn't say says a lot! - he's a horrible liar too).  I hope that things go well for her.  I'm sure that they would understand that I don't want my business common knowledge either.  Got to go to work!

They moved my surgery date from 12/20 to 12/13!!  YIPPEEE!  Thankfully, I have enough time to take off of work and don't have to worry about FMLA.  I am thrilled!!!

CHNN received my approval letter today!!!  My pre-op testing has been scheduled for 12/2 and my lap class where they will tell me what kind of diet to be on is scheduled for tomorrow.  YIPPEEE!!!  5 years of trying and it has finally paid off!!!!  This time, I got a copy of the approval letter from them! :)

My PCP completed her letter and I completed mine.  Now, we are waiting for Community to resubmit everything.  I hope all will go okay this time around.  Keep your toes and fingers crossed and say a few prayers for me.

Well, found out exactly why I wasn't approved.  Community North Bariatrics did not submit ANY weight information!!!  No diet history, no letter from the PCP - nothin'.  Sounds like to me someone got a little trigger happy and didn't bother to check if everything had been sent.  Last Wednesday, when I sent the MD an email through their system that we pay $150 to use, I did not get a response.  I called to find out why I hadn't.  The nurse told me the MD's do not check their own emails, and the one that I had sent to them, although they could see it in my in-box, they couldn't see it in the MD's - meaning someone had deleted it.  The email basically said how I didn't appreciate that 1) the staff had scheduled me for pre-op without reading the letter (which the nurse said that is what she did), and 2) the lack of professionalism of the staff.  My PCP called me herself this afternoon and told me she will work on the information this weekend and get it back to Community North by Monday morning.  So, I'll just wait and see.

On a happy note, I found out the tumors I have in my throat are not cancerous.  I had the biopsy last week (another ordeal at Community North that I won't go into), and the MD got the results to my PCP today.  I'll most likely be on medicine for a long time to forever for my thyroid, but hey - it's not cancer!

I feel so angry.  I went to Community North to get a copy of the approval letter because I wasn't finding anything in Anthem's system and I wanted to see it for myself.  Well, when I got there, they checked their records, then said that it was denied and the nurse "didn't read the letter and just put it in the chart".  I was so angry that I had to walk away.  I would cry if I wasn't so busy at work and didn't have time to do it.  I sent an email to CHNN and let the physician know what was going on and I wanted a response back.

I got approved before I completed the last psych eval and didn't even know it because I was so busy at work.  I thought it was just another psych eval, but it was my pre-op eval!! They are scheduling me to have a sleep study done hopefully soon and I will be scheduled for surgery after that!!!  I'm so freaking excited!!!  Now, on a sad note, I have to have a biopsy done on my throat to see if the tumor in my throat is cancerous.  So, let's hope for the best on that and that my WLS can come before the throat business, that it's not cancerous, and that it can be fixed by drugs instead of surgery.  Keep your toes, fingers, and any other parts crossed and say a few hail mary's for me!

Well, went in for an additional psych eval.  I'm not sure what the purpose of it was.  Dr. Randall had me read a book that was completely stupid.  It was addressing emotional eating.  The problem is I'm not that much of an emotional eater.  There were portions of the book that made me more aware of things, but overall, I think it was a 'whoa is me' type of book and I hated it - and told Dr. Randall as much.  He seemed to get kind of offended by that.  Anyway, they are supposed to be submitting my paperwork sometime next week.  I don't have any type of expectations set about this.  I have been so disappointed so many times in the past.  We'll see what happens.