Appointment with surgeon on April 20

Apr 16, 2015

This is the last step in the process to approval for WLS. Once this appointment is done, the surgeon will decide if I'm an appropriate candidate for the surgery. If it's a go, the clinic will then submit a letter to my insurance company to support the surgery from a medical standpoint. The very helpful bariatric coordinator told me that it usually takes one to two weeks for this particular insurance company to respond. If everything goes as I hope it does, tnto he time frame for the surgery would be sometime in June (of this year).

What a long, hard process this has been. My initial enthusiasm quickly changed to extreme disappointment back in 2011 when I learned that my husband's work insurance had changed their coverage that renewal year to exclude coverage for WLS. We're not able to pay for the procedure and follow-up care out of pocket, so I put my books away and resigned myself to being obese for the rest of my life. I didn't want that, of course, but obesity, knee problems, and obstructive sleep apnea were just something I had to deal with. The one good thing during my months of investigation into WLS was a sleep study. The study indicated I needed to use a CPAP device, which I've used faithfully since then. It's allowed my family to sleep comfortably again with me in the house and saved me from high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, etc. 

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