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Please everyone with BCBS of Illinois keep calling your insurance regarding the now obsolete waiting period. While policies will differ from employer to employer, if your policy does pay for WLS, there is no more 6 month wait. Be your own advocate. This was a big win that doctors actually lobbied to get because all it served to do was discourage people and make them feel more of a failure. This was cleared in February so call BCBS of illinois daily until they give you the correct information!

I am having my surgery on May 16th at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. I am so excited. I will be celebrating two birthdays from here on!

Thanks. That is on the list.

Great into. Thanks!

Good luck!

I got the call on Tuesday that my insurance approved my surgery. No wait. My insurance is scheduled for May 16th, 2012. I would have it tomorrow if I could but I am going on a 15 member family cruise scheduled for mid-April and didn't want to worry about pre-op diet on a cruise. I am 5'7" and 265lbs. I will be 40 in October and refuse to be 40 and fat! The only part I am worried about it the pre-op diet. I get pretty nasty when I'm hungry and I do marketing and presentations for a living. I hope I don't get short tempered with anyone!

Thank you!

At my heaviest, I wore a size 20. But I have always fluctuated between a 16-18. I realize I am not the largest person here but I have very similar goals and wishes. I can't wait to not wear layers in the summer time, to be able to just wear a tank top and a skirt, to be able to get sexy underwear that matches, to not worry about being the biggest person at the gym, to not hide from pictures, to not walk past all the cute clothes and suits in the store for the dreaded "plus" or "women's" section, and to not feel invisible when I walk past a nice looking guy. I can't wait to have a doctors appointment and NOT have weight be an issue. But most of all, I can not wait to go and buy that ever-elusive "little black dress" (which for now is not so little).

Check the new insurance rules! Blue Cross/Blue Shield in Illinois just dropped the 6 month wait. And my insurance is from Tennessee, and they don't have a wait either. I would say double check with your insurance company every month or do just to make sure they haven't dropped that antiquated wait policy. All it serves to do is have people get discouraged and drop out.