Patience is a virtue but I never thought myself very virtuous

Dec 28, 2008

I have been considering weight loss surgery since I had my son in June (2008) and last week I decided to finally to move forward with getting it done and I went to the weight loss surgery center to get things moving. I had to go to a seminar where everything was explained. Well... I already knew almost everything I was being told except for a few things here and there because I had done my research prior to attending. After that I gave them my insurance card for them to check to see if weight loss surgery was covered by my insurance... althought Susie, the coordinator person, she said she's delt with my insurance alot and she is almost possitive that I am covered. I also made an appointment to discuss the type of surgery I should have with the surgeon... although I already know what I want but I guess having the DS at my age is not encouraged or something like that... but I wrote out on paper why I want to have the DS (to take with my to my appointment) and I am going to hold firm to that. Then I had a bunch of paperwork to do and give back to them. Well I turned in my paperwork on Friday... they said it would be 3 buisness days til I would get contacted to make my appointments for the three things I need to have done before they can send everything into my insurance... so I probably wont even get those appointments made til next tuesday at the soonest... but more realisitically I will hear from them by next Friday. I have my pcp appointment on Monday to get the information from him required by the surgeons office... then tuesday I have an appointment with the surgeon.... then later that night my baby has his doctors appointment. Thats not related but it keeps me busy! After tuesday all I can do is hurry up and wait. I hate waiting! I just want to shoot this all out and get things moving!! I NEED to know if I will be approved... that is the thing thats killing me. Everyone has such difference experiences with insurance and thier surgery... I have struggled alot over the years when it comes to this "type" of stuff and I am tired of fighting for myself because it seems like I will lose 9 times out of 10. I just need to know everything will go smoothly... also it would be nice to be able to get all these appointments schedualed and out of the way while my mom is on winter break.. otherwise its more difficult since we only have one car. Ideally, I will get a call Monday or Tuesday to schedual all those appointments needed before they can send in the request to the insurance and those appointments will be made all next week.. and then before the end of the week the request is sent to my insurance and by January 7th I will know! :) and hopefully it would be yes! and hopefully then i could have my surgery before the end of January! My birthday is January 16th so it would be a wonderful birthday present for me!!

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