Getting Nervous

[Guest guest]

Hi everybody,

I guess I am kind of a " newbie " too. I am a medical

transcriptionist, age 43 and weigh about 320. I am going in for my

final appeal with MAMSI Life and Health Insurance on Thursday. I am

being denied due to exclusion of contract. If any of you were denied

due to exclusion of contract and got it overturned and had your

insurance pay for, could you please e-mail me as soon as possible. I

am putting together a presentation and would like to be able to say

that other insurance companies have approved this when it was

excluded.

I am single with a modest income and cannot afford to self-pay for

this operation and really can't afford an attorney, though I did talk

to one on the phone. I also sent in a form to the Obesity Advocacy

Center to see if they can help. Any ideas or suggestions would

certainly be appreciated. I am so thankful for all the emotional

support this group has.

It's funny how people treat you. There is a nurse at work who is

trying to talk me out of the MGB (she has not been very successful).

She brought me this book called the Weigh Down Workshop. I don't

know if you have heard of it or not, but basically it says that God

designed our bodies to know when we are full and we just have to go

to God and relearn the signals for when we are full and then stop!

She made me feel like a bad Christian because she does not feel I

have asked God to help me lose this weight. She said this very

nicely and I am sure that she only wanted to help and maybe did not

realize she hurt my feelings, but it really did. I told her that I

felt like Dr. Rutledge was an answer to prayer, not me turning away

from God, but she didn't agree. Well, I'm going to work on getting

my stuff together. Thanks for all your love and support.

Carol S. MGB Hopeful since March