Surgery Date and Approval in 1 day!!!!!

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I don't post often on this list, but I did want to tell everyone that I have

gotten my

~~~~~~~~Surgery Date and Authorization~~~~~~~~

The auth came in less that one day! Amber, from Dr. s office faxed my

information to the nurse, ,

at United Health Care at 5PM. I called UHC at 9:30 the next morning and got

s voice mail, left a message

telling him the fax was waiting for him and if he had any questions yada,

yada,yada....he was on the phone to AMber

verifying coverage and giving auth! Yoooopeeee .

Amber had warned me, the night before, to be prepared for a battle because of my

fairly low BMI (~~only~~37~~).

But I have sufficient comorbs to make it a non issue.

My surgery date is July 30 and I will be having a lap/DS at Good Sam Hospital in

Portland OR.

Dr. Emma is a new to private practice surgeon, who studied under Dr.

Gagner. She has done about 25

Lap/DS in her fellowship and, so far, only 1 in private practice. There are 2

more coming up (that I know of) before

my surgery.

Dr. P likes to to the band (shes in a study of it) and prefers the R-n-Y for

gastric bypass surgery. I had studied the

information on this and similar lists and decided I wanted the DS.

For me it's a real no brainer.

So now I am on the pre surgery diet Dr. P gives her patients and counting down

the days. Usually summer is too

short for me. This July will be too long!

I had thought my surgery wouldn't be till August or Sept, the way things were

going so I had a unit of mushroom

compost dumped in my driveway and had prepared to build a new raised bed garden

over the summer...now I

have 6 weeks to move that unit of dirt. So I guess I'll be getting the exercise

she wants. Maybe not in 30 minutes

of walking, but in 30 minute increments of hauling dirt up and down hill. I

have chronic back pain so I do things in

small steps, usually limiting myself to 30 minutes of physical activity with a

30 min hiatus....with chronic pain it hurts

no matter what I am doing so I haven't let it stop me from doing the things I

enjoy.

Looking forward to being switched..anyone else out there with the same date?????

elle in oregon - officially PreOp 7/30/01 - Lap/DS

BMI37, 255#, 5'9 " , 58 YO, uncontrolled hypertension, insulin using type II

diabetes, high cholesterol and sleep

apnea.