:update: oh yeah I'm approved!! :dance: yeehaw! I called insurance yesterday morning to check on my status and they said they hadn't gotten anything from the surgeon yet - I was like oh man! bummer - :think so I called and the PA said they had just sent all the info in on the 1st of november so I should give it a few more days - last week he told me it took a week to 4 weeks to hear from the insurance - I don't think they had even sent out the files - I musta lit a fire under the doc's butt and he sent them in - so then Nate (the PA) calls this morning at 9 am and says good news the insurance company called them yesterday late afternoon and said I am approved! Go figure! I said wow I must have pushed it alittle by calling! I am SO excited. :banana So Nate is supose to be calling this afternoon with dates for me to pick from. He said we need to do the crash diet to shrink my liver (10 days of liquid) and we should be set. I said I am ready - I planned it this way. I work at a golf club in PA so I get laid off in the winter so I had planned to have it this month - oh I am so excited!