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I live in Chicago on the far south side.

Hopefully, I have a black coat. I believe that one of the pockets may be torn on the inside but its yours if you want it. It's a nice coat.

@MsRhonda, it's not like that all of the time, but I wonder how often this occurs close to the holiday. The hours are not really client friendly either but hey, the facility is all encompassing so I won't complain...

Tammy, I was there on Friday to get a fill and it was very rushed but I don't believe the ball was dropped on Friday but sometime before then. My appointment was at 3:15pm and they moved it up to 1:45 pm. I'm assuming Priscilla handled the paperwork? I had to do a psych evaluation to submit to the insurance company but nothing about a modification plan. I would go back to the nutritionist and ask her to notate that your initial exercise will be walking. I would ask them to resubmit your paperwork. Who knows? It might have been the insurance approver who is not up to date on the new requirements as of February. I know there were alot of criteria prior to February in order to get approved. I hope this helps and please don't let this discourage you. I was scheduled and for days before my surgery I had to cancel to have minor heart surgery. I did have the surgery about a month and a half later.

Tammy, I was there on Friday to get a fill and it was very rushed but I don't believe the ball was dropped on Friday but sometime before then. My appointment was at 3:15pm and they moved it up to 1:45 pm. I'm assuming Priscilla handled the paperwork? I had to do a psych evaluation to submit to the insurance company but nothing about a modification plan. I would go back to the nutritionist and ask her to notate that your initial exercise will be walking. I would ask them to resubmit your paperwork. Who knows? It might have been the insurance approver who is not up to date on the new requirements as of February. I know there were alot of criteria prior to February in order to get approved. I hope this helps and please don't let this discourage you. I was scheduled and for days before my surgery I had to cancel to have minor heart surgery. I did have the surgery about a month and a half later.

Tammy, I was there on Friday to get a fill and it was very rushed but I don't believe the ball was dropped on Friday but sometime before then. My appointment was at 3:15pm and they moved it up to 1:45 pm. I'm assuming Priscilla handled the paperwork? I had to do a psych evaluation to submit to the insurance company but nothing about a modification plan. I would go back to the nutritionist and ask her to notate that your initial exercise will be walking. I would ask them to resubmit your paperwork. Who knows? It might have been the insurance approver who is not up to date on the new requirements as of February. I know there were alot of criteria prior to February in order to get approved. I hope this helps and please don't let this discourage you. I was scheduled and for days before my surgery I had to cancel to have minor heart surgery. I did have the surgery about a month and a half later.

I have read some posts that could be viewed as very rude or too direct to say the least, but I believe the overall goal of the rude posts were to treat people worth tough love. Some people can take it, some cannot. For those that cannot deal with it, maybe reach out to some of the nicer people and develop your own personal support system. It might help. For me, I read the posts every now and then.. If I have a question, I pose it. I will say this, sometimes responses are based on how the original posts read. Meaning, if the poster sets up a bad situation, do you really expect positivity? Anyone agreeing with you all the time is lying to you about something.

I too have bcbsil and I didn't have any issues. Was approved in two weeks. Maybe it is how the doctor's office submitted the request. I had my surgery through Day One and they are well versed in the language that is needed to get approved. Maybe you might want to consider changing doctors in addition to appealing. I was never asked about any modification plans..

I have tried a lot of versions of chicken. The only kind I could eat was in a cream of mushroom sauce. Outside of that, no luck.

Hi Lisa, Why can't you use chewables?

Hi everyone, Does anyone have a problem eating chicken? Anytime I eat it, even in small bites, if I eat something afterwards, it comes up. I want to say the chicken gets stuck, but I'm not exactly sure what the stuck feeling feels like.

At Jennifer, thank you for the offer. I definitely will be emailing. :-)

Hi Jenko. No problem. I'm not on here like I probably should be. I'm on Facebook. I'm going to send you my info in a message.

I had my third fill last Monday and it is kicking my behind. If I try to eat anything solid in the morning (i.e. Scrambled eggs), they get stuck. After PBing, I get the worse headache. Does anyone know what the headache is all about? I never pbed before this fill (I now have about 6 cc in a 10 band). I'm finally getting restriction but the headaches are really bothering me.

I have bcbs of Illinois and had no problem getting approved. My bmi was 39 and I had slight high blood pressure, that's all. I know the policy used to call for 6 months of nutrition counseling but now only requires one month after February 1st. Maybe it's how your doctor submitted the paperwork.