Re: OH MY GOD!!! I'm so furious!!!

[Guest guest]

my original surgery was to be March 10th, the dr i was going to lost his

malpractice insurance and cancelled my surgery the day i was to go in the

hospital. believe me i know how frustrating delays can be. i was lucky to have

found

a wonderful surgeon days later and was able to have my surgery a little over

a month later than the original date. hang in there and everything happens

for a reason. take care and God bless.

laurette

4/23/04 open rny

309/290/247/150

[Guest guest]

I am so sorry to hear of your delay. I am sending you buckets of

sanity cause valium I just don't have on hand. I am thankful my

surgeon had be call from the time I called for an appt. to see if

there were any restrictions or hidden clauses. Had my appt. last

Friday and I am waiting for a " good " phone call from the Dr. My

prayers are with you.

> I'm so freaking furious!!! You just don't know!! After

> I was approved and everything the surgeon's office

> called me to say there is a clause in my insurance

> that I have to be covered with insurance (CareFirst

> BC/BS) for a year for them to cover it(my year is up

> September 8th)!!! This freaking means that the

> surgery is moved back to September 10th. OH my god

> please send me some sanity and a couple valium!!

[Guest guest]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think a good number of us have had

delays in our surgeries. I know I did! Mine was supposed to be May

17, and had to reschedule to June 11th. It is very frustrating. What

you lose in weight, you gain in patience!

[Guest guest]

I am glad your doing better now. But I have a question and I am not

sure if you can answer it but maybe someone might. You mentioned

you will remain on the preop diet... What happens after remaining

on the diet and loosing " more " weight, you go to the Dr. and your

weighed, found you've lost more weight. Could they deny your

surgery? Is there a weight/BMI that is considered not eligible for

this surgery. Hate to bring this up but I am concerned. I know I

can research this online but felt I'd ask those who know it best.

Thanks in advance.

> Thank you all for your words of encouragement, I

> really do appreciate them. I was in tears for about

> an hour after the call and finally I realized that

> (like I told somone on here a couple of days ago) I

> have been fat 31 years, I'm sure I can wait two more

> months. I'm very very disappointed and I'll be my old

> self tomorrow morning after I have had a chance to

> sleep on it. I almost went out and bought a pack of

> smokes and a big ass NO NO meal for lunch but I didn't

> I stuck to my preop diet. I really hope there are no

> more hurdles in my way because I can't handle one more

> thing. I'm going to plan a weekend getaway with my

> Mom. " THIS TOO SHALL PASS " <- - - Aint that the truth

[Guest guest]

I lost about 23 pounds prior to surgery because my surgeon said that

I had to try on my own. He told me that the insurance approval goes

off the initial start weight when I was first weighed in his office.

He told me that any weight that I could lose on the liquid preop diet

would only help me in the long run.

Hope this helps!

Tre

> > Thank you all for your words of encouragement, I

> > really do appreciate them. I was in tears for about

> > an hour after the call and finally I realized that

> > (like I told somone on here a couple of days ago) I

> > have been fat 31 years, I'm sure I can wait two more

> > months. I'm very very disappointed and I'll be my old

> > self tomorrow morning after I have had a chance to

> > sleep on it. I almost went out and bought a pack of

> > smokes and a big ass NO NO meal for lunch but I didn't

> > I stuck to my preop diet. I really hope there are no

> > more hurdles in my way because I can't handle one more

> > thing. I'm going to plan a weekend getaway with my

> > Mom. " THIS TOO SHALL PASS " <- - - Aint that the truth

[Guest guest]

Thanks for writing back. I am glad to hear this cause I initally

have wanted to start preparing and was worried if I did so good

they'd say. " Well you can do it this way why not continue then your

problems are over and we are not out $$ " ! I would just hate to

overdo it cause I can loose weight but it come's back trifold.

> > > Thank you all for your words of encouragement, I

> > > really do appreciate them. I was in tears for about

> > > an hour after the call and finally I realized that

> > > (like I told somone on here a couple of days ago) I

> > > have been fat 31 years, I'm sure I can wait two more

> > > months. I'm very very disappointed and I'll be my old

> > > self tomorrow morning after I have had a chance to

> > > sleep on it. I almost went out and bought a pack of

> > > smokes and a big ass NO NO meal for lunch but I didn't

> > > I stuck to my preop diet. I really hope there are no

> > > more hurdles in my way because I can't handle one more

> > > thing. I'm going to plan a weekend getaway with my

> > > Mom. " THIS TOO SHALL PASS " <- - - Aint that the truth