Just learned today that my insurance is approved and that my surgery is scheduled August 4th!
Thanks to you folks at BariatricPal, I learned how to navigate insurance requirements. Many of you veterans and newbies generously gave of your time to answer posts from people like me. You taught me how to find information about my specific insurance plan and how to follow the approval process on my own. You gave me a heads up about what might happen at the psych evaluation.
When I look back at my last six months, I realized just how much you filled in the missing areas of information as well as prepared me for how quickly events occur at the end of pre-op visits. I live in a rural area and have received only the bare minimum of guidance from my bariatric center, although it is a Bariatric Center of Excellence. Maybe I needed to ask more questions.
Spending time to navigate all over this site has led me to so many invaluable areas. I've been around here long enough to know that each day will have a new stall question and sheepishly admit to zeroing in to rants and raves when I feel the need for a bit of drama.
Posts here can be sources of encouragement or annoyance, just like the rest of the population. The ignore option has proved very useful tamping down my repeated irritation with some folks.
I am very grateful that one of my bariatric books led me here. My nutritionists, "lifestyle coach," psych evaluator and PCP did not know anything about it. (and did not show much interest when I tried to share information with them)
My level of preparation is directly due to all the advice I've found here. Many thanks. You know I'll be here for the rest of this journey.
Did all of my pre surgery tests and registered at the hospital yesterday. I'm on a 1500 calorie low fat high Protein diet. It hasn't been too bad. Other than that I have no pre surgery requirements. I'm scheduled for 11:00 am on the 4th. I'm ready.
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