MBowman189
Insurance Approval
Mar 07, 2011
Four Weeks:
Well, two weeks turned into four weeks, but finally on Saturday March 5th, my wife and I both received our official approval letters from Kaiser that our referral had been issued to the surgeon of our choice Dr David Suh of Crown Bariatric. The letter was dated February 28th, and said we should hear something from Crown within three weeks. Well as it took a week to get the letter, that means another two weeks. I called Crown today, but they hadn’t received the letter yet, so I’ll wait another couple days and call them again. What I did find out is that there scheduling surgeries now for March 31st, so all goes well we should be scheduled within a few days of that. I’m not sure they’ll schedule us for surgery on the same day, but if they do that would be fine as we have two adult children at home that will be able to assist us as needed. We’re both so excited that the wait is coming to an end shortly, and we can join you all on the loser’s bench soon. We have a deep sea fishing trip in Mexico coming up in late June, so we should be fully healed, on regular foods by then, have lost a substantial amount of weight, and feel so much better this year. It’s going to be wonderful to not have hip, back, and joint pain from taking long walks. In addition, I can’t wait to set comfortably in the airline seat without being cramped and crowding the person next to me. I’ll probably skip the ATV rides through the Mexico deserts this year, but maybe next year put it back on my list of things to do.
I still have a few things to do before surgery, such as buying a two months supply of the vitamins I’ve selected from two sources just in case after the surgery our tastes change and we can’t stand one of them. We’ve already stocked up on a variety of proteins just in case our tastes change as well. We have our digital food scale, and several other things on the hospital list, so I think we’re ready. I’m trying to finish up some home projects such as an engine job, and steering box on my son’s truck, repair a brush mower, overhaul a carburetor on my tractor, and get a 55 Chevy I’m restoring finished. I also need to get some castor bean tree stumps pulled out, and make a dump run. There’s always something that needs done, but some things might just have to wait until after I recover.
Something interesting that happened last week at work is the City is having a Get Fit Challenge which started Wednesday February 23rd. There is a weigh in and additional ones every two weeks for a 12 week period. I felt that even if I don’t have my surgery by then, at least I’ll keep working hard towards my goal, and perhaps lose a couple lbs a week. If I am lucky enough to have my surgery early April, then I’ll really have a tool to help me, and will probably lose 8 - 10 lbs a week. Each week those with a loss are entered into a drawing for $25 to $50 gift cards and whoever loses the most in the 12 weeks gets an I-Pod Touch. Getting a prize isn’t what I’m doing this for, my prize is to put my diabetes in remission, lose weight, get and stay healthy, extend my life 10 to 20 years, and enjoy my retirement and perhaps grand kids someday.
UPDATE: Recieved a call today from the surgeons office that our consultation is on March 31st, and will probably be scheduled for surgery the 2nd or 3rd week of April. We're so happy!
Martin
