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As I type this, my file is sitting on the desk of someone at Aetna!!!!  Holy cow!!!!  Finally!!!!  I thought we would never get here!  I am excited, nervous, happy, freaking out... 

I met with Dr. Khaitan at University Hospitals today... I love her!  She is so nice and gave me hope!  She wants me to go to her psychologist but that is just a formality.  I see him on the 15th.  Assuming my new patient advocate has everything he needs from my old patient advocate, we will be submitting to insurance next week!  Holy cow!!!  I can't believe how close we are getting...finally!  The only bummer is that I have to lose 10 more pounds!  I already lost 20 but she wants 10 more.  Plus no more pop (even diet...no carbonation)!  UGH!  Total bummer!  Overall, I am very happy and hopeful! 

We are officially back at square one. 

Dr. H called me on Monday and informed me that she will not clear me for surgery.  Ever.  I explained to her that T will write a letter co-signed by Dr. R once my meds have been stable for 6-8 weeks and she stated "When I said not in the near future, I mean not in the near future."  What a *itch!  According to her I am not emotionally stable enough to have surgery at all.  Who is she to decide my fate?  Not fair!

Now I am back at the start, trying to find a hospital and surgeon.  It sucks to have to start all over!  Luckily I have met all of the insurance requirements so all they have to do is submit for approval.

I have decided to go to University Hospitals for my surgery.  They seem really nice and know the situation and are upset that Dr. H got to hold all the cards in my case.  They agreed that the whole situation is ridiculous!

I meet the surgeron on the 23rd.  My records (and $350 program fee!) are being returned to me in the next few weeks so that I can turn them over to UH and get this show on the road!  I am disappointed to be doing this all over again but glad that there is another, hopefully better, option out there!

Let's start with the meeting with Dr. R, shall we?  Horrible!  Worst doc I have ever met!  EVER!  He was rude, mean, condescening, wouldn't let me talk, and treated me like an idiot!  To top it off he agrees with Dr. H!  Thanks, T, for making things worse!  Ahhh!  I don't know what is happening on that end now.  I see T (psych doc) next week.  R (therapist) was livid!  She said he was so out of line and completely disagreed with him!

I met with Dr. H again yesterday.  I was a lot less emotional this time.  (I said "less", not "not at all"...lol).  Next Tuesday she is going to call me and finally give me a yes or no on whether this will ever happen.  If she says no I will go to another hospital for a second opionion.  I can't not have this surgery!  I won't live to see 40 at this rate!!!!  If she says yes, it is still a waiting game as to when.  At least I will finally know what I am up against!

Bad news - Dr. H called and left a message on my cell phone; Dr. C.H. refuses to meet me!  Are you freaking kidding me?!  What is their game?  Why are they so against me?!  Ugh!!! 

Possibly good news - I saw my psychiatrist on Friday.  (Technically he is a nurse practioner - it doesn't bother me but we figured out that that might be why Dr. H seems to have a problem with him.)  Anyway, he is so fed up with Dr. H that he is bringing in the big guns!  The head psychiatrist of the whole practice, Dr. R, wants to meet with me on Thursday to get to know me so that he can find out what is happening and gain intel to talk to Dr. H and get me my surgery ASAP!  Yay!  My psych says he wouldn't be surprised if Dr. R called my surgeon directly and told him to get this show on the road!  Awesome! 

I met with Dr. H today...not that it did any good.  I'll save all the nitty gritty, 1 1/2 hours worth of detail but lets just say we really aren't that much further.  The next step is to meet with Dr. H, Dr. C.H., my mom, and me in 2 weeks.  I requested the meeting because Dr. H is still not giving me any answers.

I wanted to post last week but life has thrown our family a curveball with Tuesday's Breast Cancer diagnosis for my grandma.  It has been a tough week.  We are hopeful that she will get through this just fine!

On a more positive note, I am finally meeting Dr. H on Monday.  I am hoping to be able to make her like me enough to finally be able to submit to insurance.  If not, I am going to have to talk to my Patient Advocate and see how we can go around Dr. H and finally get this show on the road!  I am hopeful that I will finally be able to have the surgery that I have been fighting so hard to have!

I saw my psychologist on Thursday.  Apparently Dr. H tracked her down at another hospital and talked to her for 20 minutes.  She said Dr. H obsessed about some information in my chart.  After she finally got off that topic she satarting obsessing about the number of meds I am on. Psychologists don't do meds, psychiatrists do.  She kept telling Dr. H she doesn't know about my meds but she just kept asking about them.  She was annoyed that Dr. H has never met me but obviously has something against me.

I saw my psychiatrist on Friday.  He is mad!  He is angry that she is taking so long to do this, that she refuses to meet me face-to-face, and that she doesn't listen to me.  There are options to get the meds in post-op, namely a g-tube, that I keep telling her about but she continues to say I won't be able to take my meds.  The surgeon and the medical doc are ok with me taking them by mouth or g-tube but Dr. H continues to obsess that I won't be able to take them. 

Anyway, on to the good stuff!  While I was in the psychiatrist's office he called my patient advocate to tell her his concerns about Dr. H.  She forwarded him to Dr. H's supervisor!  Yay!  He and Dr. C.H. talked for about 10 minutes.  The three of them (Dr. H, Dr. C.H., and my psychiatrist) are having a conference call at noon on Monday!  Hopefully we will finally be submitting to insurance next week! 

I will be Thin by Thirty! 

Why am I surprised that Dr. H didn't call yesterday?  Hopefully the good news will come next week!

Fingers crossed...we may get to submit to insurance on Monday!  

My psychiatrist told my psychologist that he felt bad that he let Dr. H talk him into thinking I wasn't ready.  We are tapering off one med and I am doing weekly therapy but that is it!  He was supposed to call her and tell her what we were doing and that he wants her to submit to insurance now!  Dr. H will be in the office on Monday and call me.  Hopefully it will be good news!