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Congrats and good luck! This is life-changing!

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Congrats and best wishes for a smooth surgery and a speedy recovery!

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Congrats! Awesome Valentines gift.

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I have BCBS of IL... when did your surgeon submit for approval? how long did it take for them to approve it?

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That wasn't very long at all! Congratulations!!!!! That is so exciting!!!

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Congrats!!!!!!

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And congratulations from me also, may your surgery grant you all you desire!

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Insurance companies tend to tell people submitting their documentation that it can take weeks for approval (they told me up to six weeks). My approval ended up taking only THREE business days. In fact, I was sitting in my primary's office and she just nonchalantly said, "Oh, did you know UnitedHealthCare approved your surgery?"

I guess UHC decided to let my primary before me!

So when UHC eventually called, I said, "Oh, that's old news. "

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Im scheduled for Feb 15th. Paperwork was submitted yesterday and received approval within 24 hours. BCBS.

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On 1/30/2019 at 10:38 PM, Harborgurl said:

Im scheduled for Feb 15th. Paperwork was submitted yesterday and received approval within 24 hours. BCBS.

See? For all those out there who think they'll have to wait forever for a decision, Harborgurl got an even faster turnaround than 3 days. The weekend messed me up. Paperwork in on Friday, approval granted on Monday. Primary contacted on Tuesday. I, of course, was the last to know!!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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