LiciaLou
It's All Happening
Jun 20, 2012
So I finally had my consult on Friday (June 15th). It was a super long wait & the waiting room was full. The plus side of the wait is that the staff was really nice, explained they were running about 45 mins behind & didn't call patients out of order. (I hate when you are waiting forever & see someone that walked in after you gets to go back first ... just irks me lol) Anywho ...While I was waiting I got the chance to talk to 3 of Dr. H's post ops, 2 yrs, 1 yr (a revision from another surgeon) & 6 mths out - they all had nothing but the best things to say about him. When I got called back I was weighed & put in a room (I'm down 13 lbs since April Woot!). Dr. H was really nice & broke everything down Barney style. He said I'm goin to be a rockstar & my surgery will be a treat for him since I am technically much smaller than a lot of his patients.
After Dr. H went over everything I saw his assistant & she is great. She said with my insurance I would need a 6 mth supervised diet, a psych eval & per hospital requirements a nutritional class with the dietician before they could submit my info for approval. Well I have been seeing my PCP for a yr & on each of my visit forms she notes that I am overweight & we discussed a low fat / low cholesterol diet. Madalyn (? I'm horrible with names) said that was perfect & she just needed to get those records from my PCP.
As of today I am scheduled for my psych eval & the nutritional class for Tues June 26. So I am hoping that they are able to submit my info by Friday. I am really hoping that everything works out and that I can have my surgery mid July.
I can't believe that is all that they required. I was really prepared for a long drawn out process but everything seems to be chuggin right along. I will post again on Tuesday so anyone following will know what to expect from those appointments.
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About Me
Central, FL
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31.2
BMI
Surgery
08/29/2012
Surgery Date
Mar 11, 2012
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