Sunday night my daycare provider called and told me she couldn't watch Broden today because she threw her back out
All I could think was NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I am NOT rescheduling!! "AUNT DARLA" (next door neighbor) to the rescue
Got ready to leave this morning and MAJOR wreck on I-95 OF COURSE and it took 2.5 HOURS to get 23 MILES up the road!! I was paniced
My husband suggested calling and rescheduling when we had to stop and pee because I doubled up on my medi drinks this morning since I would be occupied during "snack" time. My answer again was NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I am NOT rescheduling!! We got back out on I-95 and trudged along. Once we got on the Metro I called the doctor's office and the girl was sooooooooo understanding and just said "No problem, be careful and get here when you can" <<BIG SIGH OF RELIF>
Ok........now it has taken over 3 hours to make it to my appointment and to say I was stressed was a HUGE understatement. I was in tears just waiting to be called back because this day was finally here.
Gosh there is so much I want to tell you. I want to talk to all of you on the phone and tell you how it went
Anyway........trying to make this as short as possible. The doctor took one look at me and says "You are a PERFECT candidate for this surgery" Other comments along the way were "You are going to look PHENOMINAL!" "You completely have a medical reason for this surgery and I believe they will do it" "I don't think you look heavy at all and if you WANT to lose some more weight I want you to do it before I do the surgery" and here's my FAVORITE part "WHEN DO YOU WANT TO DO IT?"
Of course there were tons of information swapping and I didn't really have many questions because I've researched this so extensively already. But all of her comments were in the tense of "WHEN" we do this and not IF we do this
She said she would write the letter to the insurance today and we should know in 2-3 weeks Now comes the hard part of waiting. But........she made me feel so confident and she never said "well if insurance won't cover it this is how much it costs." Maybe I should have asked, but for right now I just wanted to stay on my cloud 9!
Surgery will be 3-4 hours and one night stay. 2-4 weeks recovery period with most people returning to work in 2 weeks. Diabetes is not a concern because it is SO WELL CONTROLLED!!
I told her I didn't want to do the surgery until sometime in July. I will keep the promise I made to myself and that is getting every bit of weight off that I possibly can before the surgery. Because referral acceptance runs out in a period of time she suggested that I not go longer than July. I firmly believe I can have 12-15 more lbs off before then and that would put me within 10 lbs of my ideal weight. The surgery actually should cover that to be honest.
WOW! I'm on cloud 9, but trying hard to keep a level of doubt in my head so I'm not completely devestated if the insurance says no. She just seemed so convincing and confident. She even said at one point "I believe Blue Cross/Blue Shield would cover you and they don't want to cover ANYTHING!" The Hidradenitis is the clincher and she knew EXACTLY what it was.......also making me very confident. If you ever have time and want to know what it's all about look it up and you'll see what I've been dealing with for 15 years
I have so much to say but I"ll do it in another post another time. I am having tons of feelings about this now that it might actually happen. But I'm really going to stop right now and talk about it later. This has certainly been long enough.
Nancy I didn't write you back personally because I knew I would do this here too. Thank you sooooooooooooo much for checking on me today. You are SUCH a great friend
So that's it for now. Let the waiting begin!!
wewwwww I did it,
Christi
thinking about it. I'm sure it will be difficult to think about anything else.
prayed big time for you, Cutie!
overcame the trials along your trail and what a 
great outcome!
group deal here and I can have my hipsters carved away a tad bit!
Let’ celebrate, Kids. 
Shaker Jars raised or Magic Bullet Party Mugs raised?
“To Christ
Here’s to you, the 
demise of the 
Belly Monster and hullo flat tummy!!”
I am allowing myself to feel confident this will happen. The surgeon just seemed sooooo positive today that it has rubbed off on me 
Somehow, I already KNEW the results today were going to be in your favor, but don't really know how I KNEW....just a feeling - I guess.
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