Within minutes of arriving to work, I got a call from the weight loss surgeons' head nurse. She proceeds to tell me that insurance requires 7 consecutive monthly weigh-ins before they will approve the weight loss surgery, and my file indicated I'd had 6 as of 12/30. If one month is missed during that time period, the patient has to start all over at weigh-in #1, yada yada. I think my heart actually stopped for a second! I just didn't have it in me to wait 7 more months!
Luckily, my primary care doc had left off a weigh-in. We quickly resolved the issue, and within a minute of a lowest low, I experienced a highest high! I received "official" insurance approval for the surgery, and even better than that, an "official" surgery date.
On March 17th - 9 months after I began the lapband approval process - I finally will have the surgery. I do pre-op labs this coming Monday, meet with the nutritionist and doctor the following week, and days later have the surgery. I did a little YouTubing today and came across a really great before/after video. And another. There are actually too many to list here.
I can't even begin to imagine how great it will feel to see the extra baggage melt away over time.
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Congrats on the surgery approval. Here's to you finding your "healthy" self. You know, I wasn't always overweight...used to be able to see my clavicle for goshsakes, but even then, at 110 to 115 lbs...I thought I was So. Fat. Funny, how we perceive ourselves, isn't it? Now I weigh almost 220! That's TWO of me. Ha...I couldn't even lift 75 lbs. before...but now I carry an extra 105 lbs. in weight. Anyway...good thoughts to you!
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