no surgery for me.

[cheryl_gut 6]

I Went to dr stowers in Plano! He was amazing! Outpatient, back to work in 4 days havent thrown up once or had any issues at all! I think Dr Stowers and his team really have the secret sauce for this surgery! I asked him at my post op if he was sure he operated on me!

[AASosa 56]

I self paid cause I dont pay for insurance.

i had lapband removal and VSG surgery for $12,000 financed 3/4 of it.

Good luck

[Frustr8 7,886]

@ElseeG, how are you doing? Is everything healing okay and how are you feeling?😙☔

[ElseeG 67]

On 4/14/2018 at 1:45 PM, Frustr8 said:

@ElseeG, how are you doing? Is everything healing okay and how are you feeling?😙☔

Hi! Thanks for checking in. Things are going well. I’m still getting the hang of eating slowly enough to realize I’m full. I’ve ended up with some nasty indigestion a couple of times. I’m down 18 pounds! I’m dropping about a pound every 2-3 days.

I found a great dietician and support group locally.

How are you?

[Frustr8 7,886]

Still planning and waiting for my surgery. After the 25th I am hoping the gears start turning again and move me towards my😷 surgery.😛

[ElseeG 67]

What happens in the 25th?

I will warn you that the day of surgery was extraordinarily painful. They pump you full of air when they do the surgery all that air caused me pain. Morphine alleviated it. Just a heads up. I wasn’t prepared.

I’m down 19 today. One away from where I was 2 years ago.

[Frustr8 7,886]

On April 25th I have a psychological appointment with OSU staff psychologist Dr Kramer at Martha Morehouse Pavilion in Columbus. Program#1 and its 3 surgeons kicked me to the curb after completely finishing their requirements not once but twice on February 20th. My resume of steps taken will transfer over, I made sure of that as I didn't those 3 sons of Seabicuit the Horse at a,Center of Excellence Hospital !no less! So I picked myself up, dusted myself off, put a smile of joy on my face (well it was pasted on but they didn't know that) and attended a seminar at OSU-Wexner Medical Center, within 5-6 business days I heard back on maybe March 20th or so, this was the soonest appointment I could get. It is going to last from 10AM until Noon so he must going to be plumbing my inner pysche. Hope he's looking out for the bats in my belfry! Then depeding on ant further requirements because every place does things differently, it could be as soon as May? At any rate my best revenge will be proving the 3 stupideos at Mount Carmel wrong and receiving the surgery they denied me! I may be Sherah Princess of Power's Grandma but there is spunk and vibrancy left in this Redhead!😝 And forward I Go!

[VictoriusCarmelita 1]

Hello everyone,

I'm new here, I have started the process for having bariatric surgery! I love how everyone is positive and encouraging!

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[ProudGrammy 8,322]

1 hour ago, Frustr8 said:

I didn't those 3 sons of Seabicuit the Horse at a,Center of Excellence Hospital

@Frustr8

who and where are they? what was their prob??

kathy

[ProudGrammy 8,322]

1 hour ago, VictoriusCarmelita said:

love how everyone is positive and encouraging!

@VictoriusCarmelita

there are always a few rotten apples in a barrel. don't let them scare you away.

most OP are great here. ask your questions and you'll get good, helpful, info advice, hear experiences.

read all the sites here, many others have similar questions to you.

use the search in the top right hand corner.

jump into conversations with your comments. Newbies are people too!! LOL

"enjoy" jumping thru the hoops of insurance!! most of us been their

see you around the neighborhood.

good luck

@ElseeG

glad things are going well

finding a great support group and nutritionist - terrific, important, helpful

way to start your voyage

good luck

kathy

[Frustr8 7,886]

No problem telling you, and why truly should I protect them for what they inflicted? Mount Carmel,in Columbus. Their chief of Bariatric Surgery Marcus Miller MD was my doctor of record. They are rated a Center of Excellence hospital and, sad to say, on very many other Bariatric websites he is ranked as the best or only worthwhile surgeon in that locale. This is a city of 3/4 million people, if you doubt me go to one of the other websites with Bariatric or Obesity in their names and his black-hearted self will pop up. I had gone through their program not once but twice. 5 months In first time , my job was terminated and I lost insurance coverage, the insurance I had at that time United Healthcare required 6 months of consultation. I considered Cobra-ing.it over but it would have cost $700 out of the $900 Social Security I had to fall back on, because I was unemployed , and at 70, not too many jobs available. Unbeknowned to me, Medicare's requirements were much less stringent, I had fulfilled all Their Requirements and could have been scheduled then and there. Was I made aware of this? H*** No! I only found this out as one of their parting shots fired at me. So last Autumn after being put on Phenteramine and gaining 30 pounds in 1 month instead of losing, upon the advice of my PCP who threw up his hands at this weird reaction of my body to this lovely medicine, I drug my fat 300+ body back to Columbus and humbled myself. I completed all Their prerequirements including 1 they hadn't thought of before, finished all of them 3 weeks into January. And I started waiting and waiting, when I hadn't heard anything after 10 business days and knowing full well I had completed all of Medicare and Medicaid's requirments so which ever they submitted it to, I was covered, I started calling and bugging them. I was raised with the proverb "The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease!" sol I started squeaking so loud they could hear me 50 miles away on the West Side of Columbus. First I was told I was lost in a pile of paperwork,second week I had been Submitted,and we should wait calmly and everything would be okay, third week the paperwork was,back, they would review it and give me a date. Sounds good so far? Yeah I thought so too. Then I get the Call Of Calls. Suddenly the woman on the phone says "We've reviewed everything and the psychologist, who had shook my hand, told me (in the presence of my son who is an adult) I had passed all her questioning with flying colors and wished me well on my coming surgery, had sent a report that I was emotionally& psychologically unstable and could not mentally comprehend the ramifications of surgery. Not to toot my own horn but I am and always have been Mensa-level intelligent, and you've read my postings on here, do I come across with a lack,of understanding or emotional orientation? So the 3 surgeons, Marcus Miller and his 2 partners had themselves a meeting and decided they didn't feel like doing my surgery, with,no more caring than you turned to DH and announcing "I don't feel like going to Rochester today". What what what? I kept saying, then she said in a smarmy tone "Poor dear,maybe you should get some theraputic help locally" Why? What on earth did I DO WRONG?
So,i cried a few days for my dreams had been dashed to the earth and stomped on, then I picked myself up, looked myself in the mirror and. said " Karen, old girl, are you going to have an attack of the vapors or are you going to prove them wrong?". then I called the other 2 programs in Columbus, one at Riverside Methodist and the other at the Ohio State University, for although my,local hospital has started a limited Bariatric program, they only do,lapband and sleeve and with my degree of GERD I require some form of bypass. Arranged an appointment for their next seminar in Early March. Went, liked what I heard so filled out my application on the spot, signed a release of information form for I had found out all my precredits transfer. Within 5-6 business days I got a callback and was given an appointment with Dr Kramer their staff psychologist on April 25th, the soonest I could get in. Depending on whether I pass and I will accept no intimation that I will not, and whether any further requirements are needed because every program has different ideas on what prepares you best, I could be looking at a May Surgery date. And that is my long tragic yet hopefull story!😛

[newmebithebypass 713]

@frust8 my moms name is karen she is no longer with us but you have her same fighting spirit so keep fighting

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[Frustr8 7,886]

I'm sorry you no longer have your Karen Model, we are pretty nice models, but we're she here I would hug her and. tell her she raised an exceptionally nice child❤!

[VictoriusCarmelita 1]

Bless you and Thank you for responding! Have a Blessed day!

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[newmebithebypass 713]

I'm sorry you no longer have your Karen Model, we are pretty nice models, but we're she here I would hug her and. tell her she raised an exceptionally nice child[emoji173]!

Thank you my karen model raised amazing daughters who grew into amazing women and their light shines on their children we were like the family in little women and now we all are grown living our lives but we have those early times together that are our roots

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