I have my Surgery Time!
I'm receiving the Open Roux-En-Y
> St. Petersburg General Hospital - Ph. 727-384-1414
> 6500 38th Avenue North Michael Eak
> St. Petersburg, FL. 33710
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> It's at the corner of 38th Ave.N. & 66th St.N.
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> Date: May 10th, 2006 - Time 1:00 PM (have to be there by 11 AM)
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> Thank you everyone for all your caring & prayers,
> I'll be seeing you all Lighter Later, Mike
>
mickeyhospice
on 5/9/06 6:30 am - Tampa, FL
on 5/9/06 6:30 am - Tampa, FL
I am so happy for you! May God be with you ! I am so excited for you!

Hi Michael,
Congratulations on your upcoming surgery, you will be in my thoughts and prayers. I also have a humana medicare advantage plan. It is the choice ppo. I did have a question for you because I am in the appeals process with humana over the new medicare changes. I see that you are having your surgery at St. Pete General and I haven't seen them on the list of Bariatric Center of Excellence. I was just curious how you got humana around this loophole. I am trying to go through tampa general which did receive their certification, my issue is a bmi of 39 which I qualify now with all my comorbidities. I have just wanted to pull my hair out with Humana but I just continue to plug along and eventually they will see I have met all their loopholes including a 10 month supervised diet.
I hope that you have a complication free surgery and are up and feeling better real soon.
Patty