I just got off of the phone with my insurance company. I was approved the first time around in barely 3 business days!

This entire thing has been so surreal. I'm not sure if other people go through life like this, but for me, I know major events are coming but they don't really register as happening to me until something kicks me and I fully realize it. Going to nutrition classes, getting all of my prerequisites done, etc...I knew those all served a purpose, but I think getting the official approval made me realize that THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING.

I don't have any regret or anxiety. I was worried that when this started to get real, I'd talk myself out of it. I'm just giddy that I was approved to have life altering surgery!

I suspect the next wave of realization will come as they dress me in my hospital blues. Hopefully I'll still be excited and only normal levels of nervous then!

Congratulations!

Same here. My first real appointment is today. I'm so excited as well. I pray that you have an easy time with your new adventure.

Wahoo!

Hurray for you and a huge high five!!

You go, girl!

@jessgnc I'm so happy for you! All the work to get to this point has paid off. Congrats!

I had my first appointment last week and already have all of my clearance appointments set to be completed before my next appointment in 4wks. If all is done by then we will schedule surgery. I was expecting this to take a lot longer but am glad it's gonna happen!

@jessgnc Have you gotten a date for surgery yet?

8 hours ago, ChaosUnlimited said:

@jessgnc Have you gotten a date for surgery yet?

NO. So I didn't bother recapping here, but it turns out the guy at the insurance was an idiot and I was actually denied. How he mixed it up that much is beyond me. Dr Sharp appealed it and I got my official approval 2 days later. Since then, they have been waiting on a confirmation number from my insurance. I called up and got it on Tuesday and left multiple voicemails since then. No one has called me back.

I'm working from home today. If I don't hear back by 3ish, I'm just going to go in there in person. This is getting frustrating. I was supposed to be set to go at the end of MARCH. Now it is looking like end of May. *grumble*

@ChaosUnlimited - Just got off the phone. May 31st! Let's do this thing!!

Woo hoo! Thankfully your appeal didn't take too long, and that date is going to come up fast. Congrats! I'll be looking forward to hearing how the pre-op diet goes.

I'm still waiting to hear from insurance. I knew UHC would take their sweet time.

2 hours ago, ChaosUnlimited said:

Woo hoo! Thankfully your appeal didn't take too long, and that date is going to come up fast. Congrats! I'll be looking forward to hearing how the pre-op diet goes.

I'm still waiting to hear from insurance. I knew UHC would take their sweet time.

Well, here's to hoping you hear back soon. When I spoke with Candice, she said there were plenty of openings still. Maybe we can be surgery buddies.

Keeping my fingers crossed!

@jessgnc I got my approval today! Now I'm waiting for a date. Krista said she knows I'm on the list of calls the schedulers will be making.

When you got your insurance approval, did it have an "approval for admission date"? And if it did, was it the the actual date you ended up with? Mine says I'm approved for an admission date of 5/22, I'm wondering if that is just a date they put for the approval process.

When do you start your pre-op diet? I purchased some different flavor shakes to start stocking up. My son opened the cookies and cream protein powder thinking there were cookies in the package, and he was so disappointed, lol.

AHH YAY!!!

Mine didn't have the date thing, just a window of approval which was April something through 6 months from now to get it done.

My pre-op starts on the 24th (I have the 1 week plan). My final nutrition class is on 5/10, I plan on buying everything then. I have a container of vanilla protein powder and about 3 dozen Premier Proteins (I've been using them for breakfast for the past 2 months), but I figure I'll just stock up when I can look at things.

Your poor son! That's a hoot.