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When I found this site I thought the idea of ppl sharing their journey was an awesome idea. I'm still in the early part of my journey but I do want to share and I'm planning on updating on here whenever I receive relevant info to report. I've really enjoyed reading everyone's posts they are all so helpful so I aspire to maybe help someone in the future with my thread. ;)

On February 10, 2014 I had my first consultation w/ the surgeon. My insurance was verified before my appointment and at the meeting I was told what would be required of me for insurance purposes. #1 BMI (mines is in the 50's) #2 Nutritionist visit (one visit) #3 Psych eval...that's it! I had both my nutrition counseling and my psych eval on today (02/18/14). My surgeon's office notified me that they will submit my information to the insurance on tomorrow and then we just wait. Upon approval I'm looking at a surgery date in April, hopefully around the Easter holidays so I can have my niece to help assist me w/ my four kids!

That's all for now. Hopefully I have more news to share soon.

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Wow you only have to do one visit man that's nice...I had to do 3 months not that bad some people don't even have the coverage..Good Luck Sweeti

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I went in prepared to do 6mos of visits so I was really surprised I called AND emailed my insurance to make sure that info was correct!

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You go girl! Congrats

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Lol, thx!

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This waiting for approval is gonna drive me nuts...!

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Update: My approval took longer than what I had expected. My psych eval held me up for quite some time but once that finally was cleared up it only took my insurance a week to approve me. I received a verbal approval on 03/24/14 and I asked for the approval letter to be sent to me via email and I received that on yesterday 03/27/2014. I am now waiting on my surgeon's office to schedule me for my appointment so that I can get my surgery date...hope that happens soon!

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