I have a date! But...

Oct 09, 2012

Well first thing first. YES I have a date- albeit tentative, but my date is November 14th! Now If you've been reading my blog (I doubt anyone actually has LOL but it helps me to document it all) but if you have, you know I was suppose to have an October date. That didn't happen for a few reasons. When I went today she told me there would be no way they would be able to schedule me in October because it was already almost full- she could have figured this out when I was there last month instead of getting me hyped thinking October would be my time, but what ever...and there were still a few things to do before surgery and she figured November so everything could get done. She worried me because she told me my insurance is very difficult to approve surgery. Gee WHY are you JUST telling me this now? I'm starting to worry. Especially because she told me they needed 6 months of medically supervised weights and a letter from my primary care doctor for approval. Um WHAT?? No one ever said I had to do a 6 month diet! I told her I don't have a primary care doctor right now. She said they would write the letter for me and use the 5 months of weight history since I've been coming to their office- I'll have a November weigh in too so that should be 6 months. I'm worried it won't be enough though...I'm having serious anxiety issues over this blehh...

But I'm hopeful it will work out and November 14th will be my date! On a positve note I've lost 5 more pounds- so 17 in total. She was really impressed by that. Since I have an extra month hopefully I can loose 5-10 more. I've gone from 379 to 362. I want to be in the 350 range, so hopefully. I don't want to be dissapointed I have to wait another month, I am a little but time will go by fast hopefully. And I can at least use this as an opportunity to lose as much weight as I can before I go under the knife. They were worrying me because she was telling me today that they may need to put in a filter behind my ear that prevents blood clots since I am more high risk for them with my BMI and sleep apnea. That scared me a lot, not gonna lie, so I need to try to lose as much weight as I can so I can limit the risks.

So that's where I am now. I have to go back on Friday to see pulmonary again and hopefully get clearance. Then next week to get medical clearance AGAIN because it expires on the 24th (3 month window) because they stupidly sent me for it in July. And I need to also figure out the insurance with the insurance coordinator which we will do next week. Nervous for that. So I'm hopeful, but worried! I just want this all OVER with- fingers, toes, and everything else crossed for November 14th!

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