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I just opened the application packet my new surgeon's office sent me, and they require me to attend two nutrition classes before they submit to insurance. Of course, the classes are only taught once a month. The first one is taught on the 2nd Wednesday or Thursday of each month and the second class is taught on the 4th Wednesday or Thursday. Now I need to find out whether I have to attend them in order or if I can go to the second one before the first one. I really hope I can do that, because this whole damn process will be pushed off a whole two months otherwise, since (of course, the way my luck has run) the first class was taught this week for Febuary and I didn't know about it. If I can't do them out of order, I won't be able to get my stuff sent to insurance until the end of March. Maybe I can talk them into going ahead and submitting to insurance if I promise to attend those damn classes, since I already have been evaluated by an nutritionist for the other surgeon.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with attending nutrition classes. I think that it is a really good idea. I just wish they were at a more convenient time and taught more often during the month.

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I swear, while I know it's about educating us patients, sometimes the hoops we get to jump through feel like a test. Like how bad do we really want this, and what will we do to get it!?

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I swear, while I know it's about educating us patients, sometimes the hoops we get to jump through feel like a test. Like how bad do we really want this, and what will we do to get it!?
It really does suck, since I had already jumped through the hoops for my original surgeon. It sucks even more because I live about 6-7 hours away from the new one, and I have class on Wednesday nights. I'll have to let my professor know that I have to be in Memphis that night, even if I go to the Thursday nutrition class. Luckily, I will only wind up missing one class, since the first nutrition class in March falls during my spring break.

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