Ann M.

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So here we go again!  Shortly after that and told me that Dr. Umbach is booked up on that date so she has calls & messages in to my insurance to get surgery date changes - HOPEFULLY to the 14th ( as planned) or the 21st. I am in waiting mode again!!! I thought it would be decided/settled/finalized today!!!  Well, there is 4 hours left ET to this day...I'll see want I???!!!!???

Am I doing the right thing? Should I cancel and forget it??? I'm so frustrated with my insurance and my health causing these problems

Am I crazy for waiting all this time and going through all this??? is it worth it - REALLY?????   HELP!!!!!

OK, I got approved by me insurance AGAIN...this time for the VSG...BUT not for the 14th as scheduled!! - THEY approved me for the 28th of November! Hey - I'm approved!!!

Well, I got THE call today - they have rescheduled my surgery - pending the new approval from my insurance that was sent in this morning with an URGENT and ASAP on it because I have a plane ticket and paid the deposit at the deposit at the hospital out there - SO we should know by Wednesday or Thursday.

OK I'm a nervous wreck! But it's all in God's hands!!!

All prayers are welcome!!! Thanks you!!!

I just received the personal phone call from my surgeon - my surgery is canceled!!

Tomorrow I will begin the sad task of canceling my flight, hotel, and getting my deposit back from the hospital.

Right now I just cry and want to EAT!! At ;east I lost 9 lbs.

Well you guys it was nice but I'm off here till Medicare approves the sleeve! Or so says my surgeon........

Well, today has been HARD...my depression has hold of me and won't let me go.

I got an unwanted call from my Patient Facilitator, Sa @ BeLiteWeigh.com. Dr. Tom doesn't want to do the Gastric bypass on me because of all the Arthritis meds I'm on. MAINLY the one I've stopped! I don't understand. I do not plan to go back on it. It's my choice.

Before making the decision to have this life-changing surgery, I spent years researching and reading about it.  Then started looking for a doctor. All hospitals in my area took my insurance, but no docs. I gave up. Then this summer I started thinking about it again. Hard. I found out still, no one takes my insurance in the area. SO what so you do in this day and age You hit the internet...I found ALL kinds of places that wanted to help me and they DID accept my insurance. Again, I did my research and decided on BeLiteWeight.com and Sa (Saw) Talili was assigned to me and she is AWESOME!!!

In a few short months I had been approved, the process began for doc visits, tests, letters of recommendations, nutrition changes and the diet changes. I have a file I carry around everywhere I go. The doc, nurses, receptionists, all of them LAUGH at me - until they tell me I'll have to get something and get it back to them - I reach in my file and whip it out a copy for them, usually with other stuff they haven't even asked for yet.  Then they are proud and amazed. And they take me serious then!!

Now. NOW! I am I am 5 days from getting on the plan - and this...I don't know if I can live through this kind of disappointment. Literally. My body's age is 89 now. I am ONLY 55 years old. The whole point of having this surgery was to get OFF OF AT LEAST 3/4 of the meds I'm on. If not all of them!

So, He said he would do the Lap Band on me. BIG PROBLEM. My insurance won't pay for it! It only pays for Gastric By Pass. And I don't want anything else foreign in my body. I have artificial knees and metal discs in my back. 

So what now??????

Well, I have finished all of my tests finally. I saw my psychologist for the last time until after Thankgiving. And I have started adding baby food fruit (1/4 cup) to my protein meals and now I'm getting fruit. The store has been running them in the double pack 10 for $10. So I have stocked up.

I have realized that not all protein meals are the same. I finally got my order from BA and WOW! is it slimy tasting. Not to my liking. I hate I wasted all that money. But, I'm very inventive so maybe after  surgery can figure out a way to spice it up.

I hate I had a panic attach in the office today taking that stress test today. I'm hyper. They did not tell me to bring extra meds with me.  I can't believe they weren't warned about how claustrophobic I am.  So the test took longer than possible. I had to do the longest part strapped in that awful chair twice. Boy  was I doing a lot of praying. And of course it worked. If I had just done that first. As usual I didn't. When will I learn?!?! I lived through it and in my bed and have taken my meds and headache meds too. God is Good!!! 

I have my confirmations from Las Vegas for the surgery and the hotel. I have booked my flight. All that's left is to continue my Pre-Op Diet till I board the plane Tuesday.

Now I'm getting excited. Nicky just wants to hit the slot machines! Not me. I want to tour the Race Track.

Until next time....