Had my first consultation.

Nov 20, 2010

OK...... Its November 19 and I had my first consultation with my surgeon yesterday and all went great. I did get some bad news though, well we all know that I am a diabetic and Ive been slowly and steadily loosing weight on my own (hard as hell). well I'm now down almost 20 lbs and that is GREAT news for me but it also lowers my BMI to 34.5, which no longer qualifies me for surgery(as far as my health insurance is concerned.........WTF????) This is the first time that loosing weight is actually "a BAD thing". So what do I "DO" now?? gain some weight or hope that they will cover the surgery anyway. UGH..........

The GOOD news is that I don't have to do a million things as requirements for my insurance. For the next 12 months................
      I have to have a weight management coach which I will have to check in with on a monthly basis(over the phone) and I have to sign up with a weight management program such as Weight Watchers which I can do on-line since I am a bazillion miles from anything...lol.
      I also have to do a nutrition evaluation and a psych evaluation and that's it!! (I hope)

Also.............. because of my diabetes the Dr recommends that I have the Gastric Bypass surgery done instead of the Sleeve. He said that I can walk out of the hospital 2 days after my surgery and be diabetes free. WOW Diabetes FREE......... that alone would be worth having the surgery done.
I have my evaluations appointment the beginning of December and whats great about that is that everything is done in office, they have their own nutritionist and psychologist so I don't have to go anywhere else.  I LOVE THAT!!!
The Dr had me do some lab work.     22 tests and 11 vials of blood later.............   Yeah I was in shock too.   You'd think that I needed to be pushed out of the hospital in a wheel chair after all that......lol
Anyway...........till next time.

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