I am so frustrated right now. I just want to scream. Beginning of January I spoke with my surgeons office and they told me they had a paper for me to sign and mail back to them and once the woman who would schedule my surgery gets back from vacation which was on the 26th she will work on getting me scheduled. I called today and left a voicemail. I was so excited when I saw she was calling me back until she told me she received my paper and will call me back next week to schedule surgery because she has a whole stack to schedule. I am running out of patience. I need this surgery date.

From my experience through this journey, I have come to realize that patience is the best quality to have right now to make this surgery & the new life you will be starting easier to handle. You may want to do some research to better prepare yourself for what you will need to know to adapt to this great body and new eating habits, etc. This may also distract you from focusing so much on the surgery date.

I would also recommend you call the scheduler on Monday. If she's that busy, she may just need a daily reminder from you that you are patiently waiting for the surgery date.

Good luck & keep us updated please.

A friendly email or voice mail (after hours) to remind her your waiting would be okay. Also, remember to add that you need a date so you can schedule time off work. Like everyone, they probably also have more work then they can get done in a days time and a "nice" reminder helps. From experience and from my own side, nasty messages and emails only makes me put people off more then necessary. Kindness is your best option here.

Thanks I am trying to have as much patience as possible just disappointed that I thought I would have a date this week. I am being very kind. I left a message this morning letting her know that I wanted to make sure that she received my paper work so that we can get the surgery scheduled and she did return my call, but told me it will be next week when she calls with a date. I just was looking forward to finally having a date and now have to wait another week. I can manage. It is just frustrating.

I had the same problem which ended up pushing my surgery out a month longer than it needed to be. They held me up because the person responsible for submitting forms to insurance was on vacation and did not submit them like she was supposed to. When things seemed to drag on for a couple of weeks I got tired of waiting so I ended up calling them and explaining that my I was moving states and needed to get this surgery scheduled. As soon as I helped them understand my situation, I received a call from the scheduler stating the insurance company had just gotten back to them (within 24 hours) with an approval and she scheduled a date within 24 hours of that. I was very patient and very kind to them throughout the process knowing I would get more with a bit of sugar. It worked for me.....

Had I not called to check in, my surgery likely would have been pushed out another month. My process took almost 9 months before I was in the operating room.