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Blog 76073

A blog by PinkFish in General

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A weight loss surgery blog by PinkFish on BariatricPal. 15 entries on surgery, recovery and progress.

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10 Weeks Post-op

Wow.. time is flying by and life has just been crazy. The day of my surgery my grandmother was found unconscious on her bathroom floor and ended up in ICU. I spent 6 weeks by her side, in the hospital, until she passed away on May 9th. That was rough. I've never been an emotional eater, but I went through a phase in which I didn't care, I was incredibly depressed and I wanted to eat everything in sight and didn't care what that meant for me or my weight. My husband and I split up in April and wi

Post-Op Day 10

I can't believe it's been 10 days since surgery! It's going by so fast! The surgeons said the surgery went great! But I had a reaction to morphine in recovery and was there for 3 hours, writhing in pain and broke out with a rash. They pumped the benadryl and fentanyl to me and my respirations dropped.. It was definitely an interesting experience, haha. But I'm good now! I went home the same day, which I found kind of scary, but more comfortable anyhow. I stayed the night at my parents' house s

Tomorrow is the day!

I will be at the hospital at 5:30 tomorrow morning for my surgery! I am sooo excited, but nervous! I can't wait! Today I did the bowel prep, which was terrible. I would have rather had it pumped into me through an NG tube, haha. Thankfully I only had to drink half of the gallon. I'm down 17.5 lbs since starting the liquid diet almost 2 weeks ago, and 26.5 from my highest weight. Seeing the scale move so much is such a great feeling, even though I'm starving! I can't wait to eat solid food agai

6 More Days!! Day 8 of liquid diet..

AHHH, it's almost the 30th! I'm so excited! Today is day 8 of the liquid pre-op diet and I'm down 13lbs. THIRTEEN POUNDS IN 8 DAYS.. I'm shocked! Dieting like this hasn't been hard for me at all, knowing what's coming The other night my husband's family (they're very selfish people anyhow..) ate CHINESE FOOD in front of me.. I suppose I could have gone in the other room, but I sat at the table and sipped on my protein shake and ate my jello! I've been very surprised with myself and how much wil

WOOHOOOO! FINALLY!!!

AHHH! I'm so excited! I got the call today! Last Thursday I had called the insurance company (as mentioned before) and then Friday I called the surgeon's office. The coordinator told me she hadn't received anything yet, and even when she did she had to submit it again, for some reason. She told me that they technically had 6 weeks to approve/deny and then it took around a week for the second approval, so I was pretty bummed out - even though I knew the first approval should have been on the way

Still no date :(

So it's been a month since I have posted a blog here, and I'm very sad to say I still do not have a surgery date! BUT! I had a nutrition appointment yesterday and I lost another 2lbs and got nothing but positive feedback. Tomorrow will make THREE WEEKS since the surgeon's office submitted my case to the insurance company, and I have been very, very patient, but today I decided to call in and see what was going on. I was very nice and simply stated that I wanted to make sure they had everything

Nutrition Approval!!!!!!

FINALLY!! We're getting somewhere! I had my 5th one-on-one nutrition visit today and it couldn't have gone better! I lost 6lbs from my last visit, showed up with my protein in hand, got checked off on everything! The dietician went over the pre-op and post-op diets with me and said that I have a couple weeks to lose 14lbs to avoid the pre-op liquid diet! I couldn't be more excited! I've been working so hard lately and trying to be patient. From here the "case manager," so to speak, gathers al

Reassuring phone call to the insurance co.

With my last nutrition visit being so dissapointing I haven't been looking forward to my next, which is coming January 3rd. I haven't been able to shed much weight since I started this program back in July. At my last visit the dietician mentioned that I missed a visit in November, and that it may set me back and I might have to start the 6 months of visits over, because the insurance company may want 6 consecutive months. I was pretty discouraged, since I started the classes in August and Janua

Let's go already!

I want to apologize in advance to anyone who actually reads this blog; All I ever blog about is how frustrated and impatient I am. And here it goes again... Here it is DECEMBER. I began researching the lab band in early 2009 and decided in April of this year to pursue the program. I attended a seminar in May and was denied in July and immediately began a different program at a more local hospital. I started taking nutrition classes in August, though I'm not sure that the initial nutrition class

Nutrition Classes...

So I had my psych eval on Oct 6th and have had two one-on-one nutrition visits so far. I had my PFT done and my consult with the Sleep Lab. The sleep study will be done Nov. 15th and my Upper Endoscopy is next Friday, the 22nd. I am wondering if my insurance company counts the initial nutrition seminar thing towards the 6 months of nutrition, I attended that in August and my first actualy visit in September. I have visits booked once a month until January. Hopefully I don't need to go into Feb

Moving Along..

I just got back from the hospital and I feel somewhat accomplished. I went in this morning and had bloodwork done, an EKG, chest x-ray, venous duplex, RUQ ultrasound, and the UGI test done. I finally managed to attend a Nutrition class and have my first one-on-one visit set-up and know all I need to know to make it to my surgery. I'm still waiting to hear when my upper endoscopy will be, a date for my psych eval, and to have my sleep study and pulmonary function test on October 8th. Once those t

Getting very impatient.

My consult on July 30th went pretty well, though I did feel that the doctor was kind of pushing gastric bypass. His reasoning was that patients see better results from the bypass than they do with the band. I told him that I wanted the band and I would never get gastric bypass. At the end of the appointment I was given a list of things to do before they would request authorization from my insurance company. I was told that my insurance requires patients to have 6 months of nutrition classes befo

Excited but nervous!

So I may have to pay for 10% of the surgery out of pocket, but I got health insurance through my employer now, which covers the procedure! I immediately called my PCP and had her put a new referral through to a different program and just a couple days later the office called me to set up an appointment! Yesterday I received a bunch of questionnaires to fill out and my consult is on the 30th! I'm glad they got me in so quickly, I'm so ready for this to get going! I'm having issues with my husban

Denied, but not giving up.

I went away for vacation last week and when I got home I found a denial letter sitting in my mailbox. Strangely, it was from the WLS program that I was going through and not my insurance company. Apparently after researching my case the nurses didn't find any qualifying co-morbid conditions. My doctor had documented severe joint pain and severe psychological, but apparently those don't count. The letter stated that, because they are denying me, my account was being deactivated. They wished me lu

Eager and impatient!

I am going insane waiting to find out the next step of this process! I attended a lap-band seminar on May 18th, and my PCP put in a referral for the surgery the next week. A couple weeks later I received some paperwork in the mail, instructing me to fill out an online questionnaire. I haven't heard anything since! I'm dying to get things moving. Even though I've only just begun acting on the plans, I've been researching lap-band for over a year, and have definitely decided that I need this to

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