Im so ready now!

[OhSoNique 84]

I started looking into weight loss surgery last year. I joined this site awhile back and got really encouraged. I started weight watchers June 2013 and did good for a little while but then fell off, stop going in Jan 14. My old manager had great success with Weight Watchers she lost over 60 pounds and she went from a size like 18 To a 4, in like a year with Zumba and everything. Was a great inspiration but then I got a promotion and got transferred to a new branch and she just recently moved to Arizona to my support team dwindled. I have United healthcare and their requirements is a six-month diet plan you can go back up to five years and if you enroll in the bariatric program and do the surgery at one of their center of excellence they give you a $1,000 in your MRA account. I enrolled last august and my case manager called once and I kept calling her back and just voice mail n no calls back so I went to New York Presbyterian Hospital and got the ball rolling last sept. I did the seminar and paid for the nutrient visits and that seminar also. Got my meal plan papers for pre op and post op and the dos and donts. I was set on the lap band till just the other day. It was less invasive and can be reverse. I already got enough wrong with me( I have a mass in front of my heart and had a pulmonary embolism three yrs back and I'm on lovenox injections for ever cuz they don't know why I got it in the first place and what this mass is. I'm a medically mystery lol ) I just got a new case manager nurse( who just my luck left the company last Friday). After our talk I decided to rethink the sleeve and now have made up my mind to go for this one. I'm so excited to start my new journey. Now my real setback is my dr office. I gave the packet to one of the case managers there who said she will help me, did the psychiatrist evaluation in Oct and just need a few months left for the weight watcher programs(I could use six months of stamps). It's AUGUST and the papers r still not submitted. Partly my fault cuz I didn't follow up enough. I got a promotion back on November to a way bigger branch and it has been crazy, was short staff for awhile. So my focus was on new promotion and staying sane. But time for me now, just turned 29 and I'm ready to start my journey. I'm tired of being fat lol. I need that strict restriction from all the good foods. One big concern is post op and working with my schedule, making sure I focus on eating and drinking enough. It's hard in between dealing fraud and opening accounts and business accounts and all the complex banking services. I know it's will be worth it in the end. I'm just so frustrated with my dr office. My dr is nice but the workers smh, it's sooooo true if you want something done you need to do it yourself!! I'm going Thursday and I'm going to be like just give me my stuff and I will fax it myself. Just fill out the sheet. Sucky part is that my weight watcher book got wet and washed out most of the stamps. I emailed them and they sent me all my weight ins, so I'm PRAYING its good enough! I'm hoping to get everything submitted and get a date in Oct. I'm going to Costa Rica in sept so I want to wait till after. This site and all your stories have really encouraged me so much!! Thank you!! Wish me luck!!! Sorry for the long post!