I have an older Doctor and I figured that at my normal 3-month visit with him I would tell him about going in for the Lap band. :ballchain:I anticipated his responses of “What is it? How does it work? What is expected after the operation?” stuff like that. However when I mention that I am going for it, he already knows all about it and blah blah blah! :blah: I was shock that he knew what it was and most of what it entailed.:faint: He did have a couple points mixed up, but hopefully the pamphlet I left for him will clear it up. He even mentioned that he should be paying me for consulting him with this as he wanted more info and here I was giving it to him.:suspicious:

But he was VERY supportive and was actually encouraging about the surgery, mostly because he sees it as a solution to my other health problem.:clap2: He is hopeful that the subsequent weight loss will diminish the adverse effects of my hypertension, which in turn will help control and possibly eliminate my Type 2 Diabetes, which in turn will reduce the dosage and number of Meds I currently take. So generally improving my state of wellness and health.

Then as I mention that I need a letter of proof (for my PCHP) that I am morbidly obese thus making me eligible for the pittance of a reimbursement for them :phanvan (barely 6% of the total procedure cost). However the FORCE was with me as he asked me on the scales. You see I am around 275 currently, with my height of 5’10” my BMI is hovering about 39. That is bad enough but to be clinically M.O. you need a BMI of 40! And unfortunately we all know that that one point will be the reason for denying the claim. :heh: So as I stepped onto his scale it read 276, and as he came around to have a look, I shifted ever so slightly almost willing the scale to read more and presto change-o, it did! It actually moved to read 280, enough to put me solidly (or flabbidly) into the BMI 40 category. So clinically I was the size I needed to be.

:whoo: (Never thought you would read someone cheering to be Morbidly Obese, did ya?)

Then in the next breath, he says, “That will be $60.00!” :money: for the letter to get 6% back, he too has to reach into my pocket for money (Sigh), :noidea: I guess everyone has to have his or her share as well. (Maybe I should have charged a consult fee earlier?) Anyway, it is nice that we are on the same page with all this…

(Maybe not the same book tho…)