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It is so hard to believe that is has been almost 8 months since my surgery!  It seem like I waited so very long for it to finally happen, and now time is just moving, moving on!  So much has happened this past year.  Before I had the WLS, I had to have two cathetar ablations on my heart because of a rhythm problem.  The first didn't work, so it was performed again on Aug. 24th, 2010 and it worked immediately!  I had spent the year before that on so much medication that I felt tired and sluggish all the time.  I never had any energy, but I just had to keep plugging along.  Also, with your heart out of rhythm, you just don't feel right.  It really drains you.  So fast forward to now, with 74lbs gone and a heart that ticks perfectly, no medication at all and I feel like a whole new person!  I am so thrilled that everything worked out for me the way it did.  With the heart problem solved and the weight gone, I don't feel like a 56 year old "tired on woman"!  I have so much more energy and just feel awesome!  I just got my lab results and everything is perfect!  I have been so lucky that I have had no complications and this whole process has been real easy for me.  I am so thankful for the life I have right now.  God has been so good to me!  

I have three step grandchildren and my daughter just had a little girl on April 20th, 2011!  Now I can be the grandma that can have fun with her grandchildren!  My husband and I are celebrating our 10th weddding anniversary this week and we are taking a trip to Florida for the occasion!  I am so blessed to have the life I have right now, and health is so precious!  I can be the person I need and want to be for the people in my life that I love the most!  

I got the call this morning (Sept. 14th) and I am approved!  I am so excited.  You are working toward this...the seminars, the nutritionalist, the appointments, but in a way it seems as if it could be a dream that really isn't going to happen.  When that call finally comes and says it is going to happen, the emotions fly!  First I cried, know that this is going to change my life, then I laughed because the excitement is so real!  I have been pacing.  I have looked at myself in the mirror and tried to imagine what I will look like in a month, in a year.  I already feel thinner just knowing!! 

It has been a rough year for me.  I have had problems with my heart rhythm since 2007, but controlled it with medication.  At the end of 2009, the medication wasn't working anymore.  I was sent to an electrophysiologist and he tried several different meds that just wouldn't control the rhythm.  I had a cardiac catherer ablation on June 7th that didn't work.  It just seemed to get worse and worse, and I felt so tired all the time.  So my doctor sent me to another hospital and another doctor, and it was performed again on August 24th.  It worked this time and I feel absolutely wonderful and have so much more energy.  With that behind me, I could concentrate on getting the WLS approved.  Now I am finally here and I can't wait to have this behind me also. 

Today is July 13th.  I am feeling a little sad because I was scheduled to have RNY surgery tomorrow,  July 14, 2008.  I started this journey in March when I went to a seminar with a doctor I had researched only to find out he was not in my insurance network.  After talking to my insurance several times to make sure WLS was covered, even though I only have a BMI of 37.9, I was told it would with the comorbidities.  I have high blood pressure and was told that it would cover surgery with a doctor in network. So I found another doctor who was, and went to his seminar.  Before getting an appointment with the surgeon, I had to see a dietician and keep a food journal for a couple of weeks, and also have my psych evaluation.  I also had a stress test and a colonoscopy.  I finally got to see the doctor in June and was given the date of July 14th.  I was sooooo excited.  Now the fun part begins....trying to get insurance to cover.  A week or so after seeing the doctor in June, I got the call from his office that I had been denied.  It was a week later that we got the letter saying why.  Their reason was that I don't have the comorbitities, which I do!  So I had to wait another few days for my doctor to get in town and call my insurance.  I waited all day for the call from his office, only to find out that my insurance had been cancelled the day before. What!!  I was totally shocked and upset.  My husband had changed positions at work and that changed his insurance, unknown to him.  He called and we were able to keep the same insurance through Cobra, but it cost us a small fortune, which we overnighted to his benefits dept, so that the insurance would be reinstated.  The doctor called my insurance again to try to get me approved and guess what!  Denied again!   So now, we are waiting to see what I need to be approved.  My date was cancelled 5 days before my surgery date.   Now we wait!