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My surgery date is supposed to me 8-8-08.. BUT I am still waiting for my insurance to approve... and this is driving me crazy. Just venting.

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I went to the doctors on Wed... she submitted the info then... She told me that Anthem Blue Cross is fast to approve... So I am stressing.. LOL.. I alreay took time off to have the surgery.. etc.. I want it soooo bad... LOL It took me forever to finally decide this is something I want... and now.. its.. AHHHH

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I am almost in the same position but I have one more visit for my PCP that I have to attend. Once that is done it goes to the approval process. I already have my pre-op and surgery date scheduled so at this point I am more anxious.

good luck

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I totally understand and sympathize. I am waiting for approval also but my doctor's office won't schedule surgery date until approval is received which really sucks since they also told me they are currently scheduling for OCTOBER! UGH!!!! With a surgery date that far out I just don't understand why they can't go ahead and schedule me. It's not like there isn't time for approval and an appeal or two if necessary. I am just sooo frustrated right now. Thanks for letting me vent on your thread. I hope you hear from your insurance soon and best of luck on your weight loss journey. I am sure you will do wonderful.

BTW your pic looks like you don't even need surgery. Very pretty girl.

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Hey Cindy!

We are in the same boat! LOL... I am playing the waiting game.. grrr... anyways I will keep trying to stay positive... Thank you for the compliament... but I am a BIG girl.. in that pic I was 255... I was working out 2 times a day and no carbs... CRAZY. I had no life but the gym.. and thats just not natrual

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for the encouragement. I was feeling pretty down and almost didn't even feel like getting online because I was sooo jealous of all these "I'm banded" or "Surgery in 2 days" kinda messages. I was so sure they would go ahead and schedule me for sometime in August since there would be plenty of time for approval but noooo they won't even tentatively schedule me in October. The nurse says they can't schedule until they get approval notice. Uggghhhhh! LOL

But I am starting to do better now. LOL I have even started to get more "aware" of how and what I am eating and am going to start going to the pool in the evenings to start some sort of exercise. I am back to logging on at least a couple times a day to be encouraging and get encouragement from this site. I realize a lot of people have had to go through even more frustrations and hoops than I have but it sure would have been nice to walk into my family's holiday party weighing alot less. LOL

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