AmyMT

:eek: to both of you, 4jin & StLouisGal. My insurance is supposed to call me today with an answer, but at this point I am skeptical. My surgery is tentatively scheduled for Jan 22 and I have to be on a liquid diet for two weeks, so I just went ahead and started it so that if the insurance does get it's act together I won't be the reason to postpone the surgery. But I am hungry and cranky and I want to have an answer!!! If they don't call me today... oh they will get a piece of me tomorrow !!!! :pray: praying for you both!! ~Amy

:hug: 4jin. I so understand what you are feeling.:frusty: Hopefully we will all have very good news very soon. :pray: ~Amy

I won't be lying to my boss. I will take vacation time and what I do with my vacation time is my business. I agree it is my private business and they don't really need to know. ~Amy

I just talked to my insurance AGAIN. This time they told me the decision is another week out. Arrrggghhhh!! I explained that in order to keep the date the doctor has me scheduled, I need to start the 2 week liquid diet no later than Tuesday, the 8th. So the guy I was talking to went back and talked to the examiner again and then told me that the examiner will call me either Monday or Tuesday to let me know something. If there is no decision yet then she will let me know how she "thinks" it is leaning. I am still shaking.... I really feel like I am getting the run around. But I suppose a positive spin on this would be that if I didn't meet their basic criteria they would have denied me immediately and gotten me out of their hair. :gluck: to everyone else still waiting. ~Amy

Oh, that just SUCKS!! :hug: I will keep good thoughts that they get through this process super quickly. ~Amy

I have only told a couple of very close friends, my hubby and my mom. Unfortunately, my hubby has told quite a few people at his job, in order to get time off to go meet with the surgeon with me. I don't plan on telling my job. I will take vacation for the time I will miss for surgery. ~Amy

Thanks for the :hug: StLouisGal. I hope you get your letter very soon!! ~Amy

Hang in there 4jin. I am right there with you, still waiting. I am starting to freak myself out again.:cry One minute I think... I did everything they require, there shouldn't be any problems with getting approval. Then the next minute I start thinking, but what if I didn't do everything EXACTLY right... or what if they say this.... what if they say that... I am not having much luck distracting myself from these thoughts today.... I will be calling insurance again tomorrow. Hopefully then there will be good news. ~Amy

I feel like I am going to go insane with this waiting. I just called my insurance, for the 3rd time. When I called last time they told me I should have an answer by the first part of last week, but because of the Christmas holidays, I figured it would not happen. So I called today... and they told me by the end of this week, I should know something.:cry I am supposed to start the liquid diet on the 7th if I can have surgery on the 21st like scheduled.... So I guess if there still isn't an answer by Friday, I will start the liquids in the hopes that approval comes .... Or is that crazy to hope that I can still hold on to that surgery date of the 21st? :nervous ~Amy

I haven't had surgery yet (waiting insurance approval right now), but what clinched the decision for me was stepping on the scale to see 286 lbs, staring down my 40th birthday, and knowing that both my dad and his dad had Type II diabetes (and both died from complications of the disease). I know if I don't do this I WILL end up with diabetes, and I don't want my family to have to go through that again. ~Amy

Thanks for the welcome, StLouisgal. My journey started in July 07. I stepped on the scale and it said 286lbs. and I nearly burst into tears. When I told my hubby, I did burst into tears. About a week after that my hubby sat down with me to talk about the Lap-Band. He did internet research and even called the two places in MT that do Lap-Band surgery to get info from them. I had my initial consult with the surgeon and the nutrition class and pysch eval. on Sept. 5. I had a sleep study on Sept. 11 and was diagnosed with significant sleep apnea. Then i did the 3 month pre-surgical program of working with a dietician, an exercise therapist, and behavior modification that the insurance requires. (It is frustrating that my insurance requires a BMI of 40 AND TWO co-morbidities, mine is 44+:faint: and I have reflux, apnea, and knee and ankle pain with every step). So I finished up that program Dec 10. My surgeon's office had faxed some of my file in on Dec. 3, then another fax on the 7th. Then they got two more pieces of info from my physical therapist and counselor but I don't know if they have faxed that in. I called them this morning and the office is checking into that. I also called insurance and she told me it is still in review... I should hear early next week... but since that is Christmas, I don't expect any word until late next week. My surgery is scheduled tentatively for Jan 21. I am really nervous, and trying really hard to stay on the program I put in place for the last 3 months, and I really just want to get an approval now! Venting over now. :ohwell: ~Amy

This is my first post here, although I have been a lurker for several months now (didn't want to jinx myself by posting too early:paranoid.) I am hoping to be a January bandster also, and I am currently waiting for approval. It is very nerve wracking to wait and just keep hoping to hear something positive. So, here's hoping we all have very Happy Holidays and approvals soon. ~Amy