scarletskinnygirlinside

Trail, just go in really hydrated, grim a nursing standpoint, well hydrated people are an easier stick!

October 30 is my date!! I am very excited and nervous! 43 yo with three children and a wonderful husband! I am bigger than anyone that I have seen posting, 341 pounds! My husband and I were high school sweethearts and when we first got together I was 117 lbs so he has seen me through thick and thin... A bad automobile accidentback in 1987 immobilized me for a while then I proceeded to put on weight for years. Needless to say, I am tired of lugging this weight!! It has been weighing me down for far too long! I am inspired by those of you that have done this already. Worried that I do not see anyone a heavy as me but thankful that I am finally getting this done!

AliciaA, I can sympathize, I work at a hospital in which the bariatric surgeons have decided to leave our hospital so if I get approved in time, I will not have a problem. Well,except that I met with him for the first time today and he was basically saying that with my especially high bmi he would rather operate on me at the hospital that he is moving to... Really sucks!!!! Means that my insurance would not cover as much so I am going to throw a wrench in his works if I get approved in time and he does not want to do the surgery on me at my hospital, I am going to change surgeons!!! Really anxious and just ready to know already! :/

Lisa, I just friend requested you!

Once everything is complete then you have to await the approval from the insurance company. In my case, the fate of my surgery is in someone else's hands as I have to wait for them to be present and accounted for. Is am completely done and she is claiming she does not have my psyche eval and then she realized that I have not met with my doc so she was scrambling to recover from that. Just make yourself very aware at every step along the way that all the bases are covered. Then call and stay on everyone! I am patiently awaiting approval now. Well, actually, impatiently awaiting! Good luck on your journey!

For my insurance, it counts as two. Each individual visit counts as one. But I am not yet approved so that remains to be seen.

My six month nutrician appointments were finished yesterday too(7/27/12). My egd was done the day before that. My psych eval is done everything is done but a day before my egd, I was told by my nurse "navigator" that I was supposed to have had two visits with my surgeon. Really, I have had to make all of my appointments do everything and are called a navigator, why??? Anyway, I am incredibly impatient and do not know how to create a post but knowing that others on this site know what i am going through, i felt I could get a sympathetic ear! Btw, is there anyone that is as overweight as I? I have been as much as 346? The sleeve mat not be drastic enough for me, does anyone know?