Got a date!!!!!

May 12, 2010

I was driving home from work yesterday when I received a phone call form Karen at my Surgeons office.  She started off by saying that she had been looking over my PCP write ups from the last 4 months and had a concern about my weight.  I started off at 400 pounds in January.  I slowly but steadily lost weight since then except for my 4th month.  I gained 3 pounds from the previous month, but had still lost 7 pounds overall.  She said this was a concern because this shows the insurance company that I may not be a good candidate because of weight fluctuation....  OK i guess I can see her point but my immediate response was that I had still lost overall.  She acknowledged that but said that this kind of weight gain could still hurt me in getting approved.  I then told her that I was in my surgeons office just last week and according to her scale I was down to 383 pounds...doesn't that count?  She said good job but no because that paperwork wasn't being sent in to the ins. company.  So, I guess I will have to make sure that I demonstrate a continuous downward trend. 
After all of that talk she said since it looks like you have everything else taken care of except for a few pre-op tests we should go ahead and schedule your operation.  We decided on a July 29 as the date!!!!  Whaa hoo!  I'm very excited to finally get a date.  Now its just a waiting game.  I will have to focus extremely hard on continuing to lose weight and I am going to take this time to start living my life like I am already post-op.  Time to put the exercise on high gear and start looking into maybe doing some meal replacements with protein drinks.  Hopefully i can find a drink or two that I like.  The ball continues to roll.  Wish me luck!
Swede

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