Finally Hit the Century Mark

I finally hit the century mark, on my scale anyways, earlier this month. My doctor weighed me at 278 2 weeks before surgery, but my home scale read 283 the night before surgery. I am down to 183 so that is 100 lbs since August. I have also lost 12lbs prior to surgery down from my heaviest of 295. My husband has decided that he wants to start the process for a Lap RNY GB as well. I hope my insurance will approve him. I don't know what his insurance covers. So if my insurance won't cover it anymore, then we will have to wait for open enrollment where he works and switch his plan. Right now he is on a POS plan, but its the cheapest they offer, so I am sure they don't cover WLS. Leland 295/283/183/150ish

Woooooo-Hooooooo! Congratulations to you, Leland! How wonderful to have lost more than 100 lbs since your highest and 100 since surgery!!! As for your hubby--good luck to him! I'm sure you've been an inspiration to him. You never know about the insurance. I had the cheapest insurance my employer offered when I had surgery, and they covered it. I did have to pay quite a bit out of pocket, but I didn't mind. It was still cheaper in the long run than paying those horrendous premiums for months or years on end. ---- Leslie -98

Well luckily my husband works for a huge company (Landmark Comunications) so they have about 15 different insurance options. I work for a small company so we only have two insurance options. HMO and PPO. The HMO option looked at me like I was crazy when I requested a referal. They wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Of course, I found this out in July 2003 and Open enrollment was MAY! So If I had known in March 2003 that my insurance didn't cover it, I could have switched and had surgery in 2003. But I didn't. My insurance will cover the RNY GB until we renew out policy on May1, after that they will not cover it. Unfortunately, my husband waits until MARCH to tell me he wants to pursue it! So we are going to run out of time. However, I am hoping they will aprrove it before May 1 and go ahead and pay. If they won't, then we will have to research options with my husband's employer. Right now he is on the POS Plan from Cigna I think. Its $6.64 a paycheck just for him. Where he works its mandatory to at least carry that coverage, even though he explained he didn't need it because he was on my plan and the copays are cheaper. I need to get his insurance card and make some phone calls and see what they cover. Maybe at least with him having two insurance plans, we won't have to pay as much for his as we did mine. I knew I was going to Have a $300 hospital copay, but somehow my insurance avoided $1400 in other charges and I ended up with a $1700 bill when I was expecting a $300 bill. Even though it was more expensive than what we budgeted for, Even though the supplements have cost a fortune, and buying all of the replacement clothes has been a HUGE cost, I would do it over in a minute. I finally have a life. I can go and do whatever I want. I'm not tired, I work out all the time, and I am NEVER uncomfortable. I think my husband sees how my life has improved and he wants in. He doesn't want me to be able to go to theme parks and fit on the rides and him not be able to go. Leland

That is so great!!!! Congrats!!! Alice Lap RNY 8-26-04 311/302/196/140