Nancy Rivers

The problem with that is it would require another day off of work and another 600+ mile trip. Not exactly convenient. I will call them daily if I need to next week to make sure it gets done.

Wow, you look awesome! Congratulations on the loss!

Congrats on making the decision and getting the date! It's coming up quick! I don't have a date yet, but I know exactly what you mean about being nervous about it. It seems every day I have second and third thoughts about it. But, then I remind myself of the reasons why I made the decision that I did and it seems to help. I even went so far as to ask one of my good friends one day if she thought I was crazy to do this. Thankfully, she immediately replied "No."

Hope all went well with your surgery!

Congratulations on your sleeve Chuck! Great song - very appropriate. Although, I almost hit my computer screen when I saw your avatar....

I really like my PCP - he's always been so good with my care. However, lately, I'm getting more and more frustrated with him. A week ago, I faxed him the orders from my surgeon for some pre-surgery testing as well as the request that the surgeon had for a letter of medical necessity from him. Most of it was for various blood tests - which he could have drawn in the office. There was also an order for the gallbladder ultrasound, which he does not do in the office. Since my PCP is in Michigan, and I'm working (and will have surgery in Ohio), I had faxed the paperwork to him along with my written request explaining my reasons for requesting that he order the gallbladder ultrasound so that I could get it completed on the same day that I would be seeing him and having the bloodwork done so that I wouldn't need to take another day off of work and drive 600+ mile round trip again. I also explained that I knew he wouldn't order it without seeing me (that's his policy), but I was hoping that if I explained my situation to him, he would be willing to make an exception just this one time. Well, when I showed up this morning - he had not even bothered to read my written letter or the surgeon's orders. He finally did so when he came in to see me. Grrr.... Of course he said that he would order the tests for me - which I knew he would. So, his vampire came in and took the 8 viles of blood necessary to cover all of the blood tests and gave me the urine cup for that sample. Then getting out to his receptionist, I find out that he did not put down the order for the gallbladder ultrasound to be done today. I explained to the receptionist my issues and indicated that the doctor told me he would order it. Of course, she had to double check that. Then it took another 10 minutes and several phone calls to find a place that would actually do the ultra sound this morning "on short notice". I really hoped it would be today, since I was already fasting for the blood tests. It would have been nice if he could have gotten it scheduled before today so there wouldn't be the last minute rush to find a place to do it. But I wasn't going to leave until I had the test scheduled for this weekend if not today. Oh, and he didn't do the letter of medical necessity. His nurse said that she would have him dictate it to her on Tuesday and she would get it sent off then to my surgeon. I plan to call them next week to make sure it gets done. I get to the place for the ultrasound, give them the doctor's order and request that a copy of the results also be sent to my surgeon, and have that done. The technician then tells me to wait in the waiting room for about 15 minutes and they would let me know the results. Nice - I wasn't really expecting that. Then about 1/2 hour later, I actually got the results (negative) after again giving the information to the nurse to send the copy of the results to the surgeon. So, there's the long story of my "first step" completed! Yay!!!!

Glad your surgery is back on! Congrats!

Good luck and I hope you hear about your approval soon.

I hope you get your approval soon. Good luck and welcome to the forums.

Congrats! That is a wonderful start!

That's wonderful that you are doing so well! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for sharing your story. It gives me hope for myself. Congratulations on making your goal - and surpassing it!

What I am doing is having a protein shake each day and trying to eat healthier the rest of the time. When I met with the dietician, she told me to cut out caffeine and any soda, to stop eating fast food, and to try to eat smaller meals 5 times a day. I was eating 3 times a day - but all fast food, so this is a MAJOR change in my routine. I decided to do the protein shakes so I could figure out which I like. I had ordered a bunch of samples and am working my way through those. But, I can tell you after having 3 protein shakes for 3 days in a row, I can tell that my appetite/eating habits are starting to change already. I can't eat the same amount of food that I would have before. I had ordered a "last meal" of one of my favorite take-outs. Well, after eating it, I was not feeling too well - if I could have, I would have had it all come back up (but it wouldn't come). I've never had that happen before when eating that stuff. I'm not wanting to experience that again, so I really don't think I'll be ordering that again. I contribute it to having the protein shakes - I may be wrong about it and it may just be "all in my head".

Glad you came through it well and don't have the gas pain.

Congrats!

congratulations! Sounds like it went well for you. I hope the hunger goes away for you soon. Thank you for posting.

Congrats! That's quick!

I hope all goes well and you have a nice and easy, quick recovery!

Wow, that sounds really good! Thank you for sharing.

Wow, that is really great news! I am so happy for you. Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's great that you are doing so well after surgery. Thanks for sharing!

Welcome to the site. Glad you have had no problems with the surgery. Thanks for sharing.

Nice! Way to go!

Congrats! Wow, that sounds so yummy!

Just google search "appeal health insurance" - there's quite a few hits along with some sample letters when I did the search. Hope it helps.