excited2lose

I have told my husband, my mother, my father and my absolute best friend. That is all who will ever know. It is an extremely personal thing to me-and perhaps I will feel differently when it is all over. For now, they are my lifeline. They are who I trust in this world and they are the only ones that will know.

I have been approved for the gastric sleeve procedure. I got my approval last week. My surgeon's office is very slow to call me back and now I just found out that my surgeon will be in Africa for 2 weeks in January-so now we are looking at February-at the earliest. (and if they don't call me back soon, even later!) I liked my surgeon, but I have my reasons for wanting to have it done at a certain time. My original plan was to have it done at the end of the year. However, it took them 17 days to return a phone call, and that bumped it so far that I now can't even consider that option. My thought was-what if I changed surgeons. I have talked to two-and I liked both. I just chose one over the other-no real reason. Would it take long to change the paperwork for the procedure for my insurance? (My insurance approved me in 3 days-they were very quick-doctor's office? Not so much.) Is this even possible? How soon do most surgeons schedule out? Days? Weeks? Months?

I will be having mine done late January. I was really hoping to get it done sooner, but his office seems to move very slow on getting back to me. I don't know of any other VS surgeons in the area though.