I met with the psych in November and passed with flying colors. Then I meet with a doctor who did a good friend of mine's bipass. Loved the doctor. She was honest, up front and yet still friendly. We discussed the differences between lap band and gastro bipass...then the differences with the realize band and lap band. After the appt she said that I should hear back in a month weither or not my insurance approved everything.

Again I waited to hear something....months go by... this is taking a lot longer than I thought. I called, turns out paperwork was misplaced. UGH. So again I pushed the process.... finally I got a appt for pre-op testing in March.

I was nervous about the testing but the staff at Seton were wonderful and really there was nothing to worry about. If something was wrong, then it needs to be fixed and at least I would know.

After all the testing, again I have to wait on a call.....waiting....waiting...waiting... it drove me nuts. Weeks past by. I wanted to know the results. Was my heart good? Where there any issues? I started to worry.

I called and called the doctor's office....I must of driven the staff nuts. They said they were missing test results each time. The hospital swears they faxed everything two days after the testing but will fax again to the doctor's office. How can you have some stuff and yet lose other results that was all done on the same day? The hospital ended up faxing everything three times. God bless the staff at the hospital - they did it with a smile.