Progress

May 06, 2010

I had a good week this week with my goals.  I ate nearly every meal slowly.  30 minutes of pulverising my food with my teeth and not drinking water 30 minutes before or after a meal.  Spaghetti sure is hard to pulverize! I also walked 3 days last week but the pain in my foot was too much to do two laps. But still, that's progress!

I went to the Toby Hospital WLS orientation last night.  They said it's a 4 month program and the Surgeon explained the risks and benefits of each surgery.  

While I have concerns about the procedure, I am heavily leaning to the RNY rather than the Lap Band.  The percentage of extended weight loss with the band is about what I could do with weight watchers.  Realstically for me, losing the weight isn't my problem, it's keeping the weight off!  I have a feeling that I would be more likely to manipulate the Band and therefore, fail.

I have to fill out my forms and send them to the surgeon next week.  He was familiar with the Tufts ICanChange program and said that the Toby program and the Tufts program can run concurrently.

Next hurdle after this, Come up with $550 for the "non reimbursable" educational program fee. 

Oh yeah - forgot to say, I called my insurance company, they said that the most I will have to pay out of pocket for the surgery is $750.  BUT...I might not have to even pay that if I get approval from my employers medical director since the service isn't offered at my work.  I work at a hospital that is a 'self pay through Tufts.  This basically means that if I have medical care at my facility or through any of the MD's that are desgnaited providers through my employer, my out of pocket expenses are 0!  That includes xrays, surgery, labs, etc! 

So that's it for today! Happy day
Me

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