Ok here goes nothing. I'm not promising anybody anything but I'm going to try to keep a blog about this process. I didn't do very well when it came to keeping a diary so who knows. :thumbup:

Well I guess I officially started this lap band journey years ago but until recently when Tricare announced that it would cover the lap band I never had the chance to even seriously consider WLS. I've been interested in WLS for years but the whole idea of someone cutting out part of my stomach scared me to death.

On Feb 8, 2008 I went to the WLS seminar at Georgetown Hospital in Georgetown Kentucky. I took dear hubby with me as he has just as much at stake as I do. I liked what I heard and handed in the completed packet before leaving the seminar. To be perfectly honest unless they had really worked hard to change my mind I had already decided before I went to the seminar.

So on 2/8/08 began one of the longest 15 business days of my life. 10 to 15 business days is how long the program director Jo Wiggins said it would take the process the paperwork and make sure that it would be possible for the surgeons to do the WLS on me. They don't want to jerk you around and say that they can do the surgery only to turn around and say no. I can totally appreciated that because life has too many disappointments as it is and it would be just cruel in my opinion to jerk someone around when it comes to something as important as this WLS.

So now here we are at 5 working days and I've already put myself going up and down on an emotional roller coaster.

As some of you may know Tricare now covers lapband with certain restrictions. You either have to be 100 pounds over your ideal weight with co-morbidities or 200% over your ideal weight without co-morbidities unfortunately for me I was 100 pounds over my ideal body weight but as of yet don't have any of the specified co-morbidities that Tricare required so I figured I'll just gain enough weight that I can be 200% over my ideal but I couldn't gain it fast enough. Lucky for my I have an awesome doctor that helped me out he gave me a co-morbidity. :wink2: I love my doctor.

So here I am waiting waiting and it's killing me.

Well guess I'll talk to you tomorrow.