tdutko75

Ok so I didn't expect to be posting again so soon but I have been riding high on anxiety all day and just have to get it out. I am so not patient and this waiting game of will I or wont I be approved is driving me nuts. They just need to approve it so I can set my date and I can get it done and enter the next phase of my healthier life! UGH! Ok so enough of the rant... I just got set off today when I was at work and my cell rang with an out of area number and my hopes went sky rocketing up that it was the insurance company saying yes you are approved... Silly girl, insurance companies don't call with good news... No instead it was some nurse medical help line thing that got triggered to call me because I went to our work health fair and did the various stations to earn money for my hra... ARGH I do not need your call!!! Yes I am overweight and yes I am doing something about it if your stupid company would just approve me!!! Ok apparently the rant wasn't done... Anyway thanks for listening, I'm glad I got that out!

Don't let the NUT get you down! Everyone has always said for all of our lives it is best to lose weight slowly! If you know you are doing what you are supposed to be doing then keep up the good work! Congrats on losing the 38lbs!

Good luck with your surgery! I hope it all goes well!

Ok so I am a new person on this site, I have never blogged and I have no idea what I am doing but what heck! So here I go... In the beginning I was a normal sized baby and kid... Puberty hit and curves came out and kept going and going and going... Now 37 years later I go to my dr's office and the nice PA who weighs 95 lbs soaking wet says have you ever considered weight-loss surgery... I wanted to ask her if she ever considered eating a quarter pounder but I refrained... However rude she was it did get me thinking and I started researching. First thing I learned - I had to quit smoking... Damn it. I love smoking but I knew it was horrible for me and my babies (9 and 6) both hate that I smoke... So got a prescription for Chantix and two weeks later smoked my last cigarette on April 23. Step one completed! Next I started looking into what I had to do to get my insurance to pay for this crazy idea... First thing is get an approved surgeon. Looked at all the websites of the surgeons and randomly picked one. Next I set up an appointment and watched an online seminar. I got a letter of approval from my dr, had a mental evaluation done (that was fun), had a sleep study done and got a CPAP, and now I am just waiting for approval. I am starting to get a little nervous with this whole waiting thing... I am the type of person who gets an idea in their head and goes for it... I push and push till I get what I want and waiting is not my thing... I just want to get it done so I can get started with the rest of my life! I am going to try and do an entry every couple of days to let you know where I am at and basically so I can just keep track of everything that happens along the way