DeafNatural
Looking forward
May 17, 2014
I have never been good with blog writing and keeping them up to date but here I go. So the process so far has been pretty smooth. I always knew exactly who I wanted to perform my surgery, Dr. Robert Marema, because this has been a dream of mine since forever. I've completed that first step that I've completed many time before which is sitting through the presentation on the positives, risks and success stories of WLS. The insurance specialist has been wonderful at Dr. Marema's office and has been in close contact with my case manager at BCBSFL. Both of them always keep me in the loop about where we are in the process. My requirements are fairly simple: medical necessity letter, TSH work ups, and psych eval. Through this pilot program the documentation of previous weight loss attempts or the pre-surgery 6 months of nutrition and exercise is not required. So I am really hoping we can knock all the requirements out before the end of the school year and get surgery scheduled for the summer so I have plenty of recovery time. I am looking forward coming back to work in the Fall and shocking everyone with my post-op hard work and transformation.
I've started to tell family members and close friends what I am in the process of doing and I've received some mixed reviews. Some family members wish that I wouldn't go through with it. Mostly because they just don't know the struggle I've had most of my life trying to lose weight. Dieting, exercising, starving myself and having no success whatsoever. while some like my mother are more than happy for me. My mom and my sister have always been my support system. They have known how long I've wanted this. My mom has even tried to get financing for me to go overseas and have this surgery. The first thing my sister asked me was what does this mean. I told her it meant we would have to work our butts off because the surgery wouldn't be a cure but a great advantage. I can remember when we were little her saying to my mom that she wanted to be fat like me so kids would stop teasing me. Lucky for her she's always been the more outgoing one, taller and though not skinny but curvaceous. I'm going to need support like that in the after math. Someone to push me when I just don't feel like getting up and moving. Someone to send me motivational texts in the morning because they understand what I am going through. Yup, I'm looking forward to the future and where I go from here.
