Update on what's going on with ME :D

So everyone's been asking what's going on with me ---I posted this on my page and copied and pasted it here so you all could see---hope everyone is doing good!!! I'm sooooooooooooooooo excitied!!! Grrrrrrrr I'm so excitied about this surgery that I'm begining to go flippin crazy with all this hurry up and wait stuff!!!! Ok so since my last blog I have had the PFT (pulmonary function test) and passed with a 94%---so bascially yeah I can breathe. (My lungs are about the only thing on me that still work properly) I called the insurance company today to find out about this whole 6 month documented diet plan thing that I just learned about YESTERDAY!!! The want 6 months of documented diet plan with my doc for me to get approval for surgery---ughhhhhhhh. I've been overweight since I was two---on and off diets with a zillion different docs. So yeah I got the 6 months just not consecutive---so that sucks ass---I'm going to my doc on Monday and I'll find out if I have any consecutive months documented that will count--hopefully I do. I've had my new doc for 4 months now so I'm hoping those for count--then I can have the 6 months out of the way by July and get a surgery date!!!! Please God let me have it. So on Monday I go see Dr Griggs my PCP to talk about the PFT test and see if Similun (a insulin that helps you loose weight) is covered my by insurance. Then on the 30th I go to the Cardiologist for the pre surgery work up shizzel. June 1st I go have my head shrunk LMAO I have to have a physch eval for the surgery. To make sure that I know it's a life changing thing and I have to be dedicated blah blah blah...been through it all with the previous surgeon. So things are SLOWLY moving along---I wi**** was TODAY!!! I am so happy about starting my life over---be able to go back to work and maybe school and be independent again. And I can't wait to play ball with my nephews---I want to play catch sooooooo bad---I miss playing baseball or softball. I didn't play in high school because everyone would make fun of the fat girl trying to steal home but I wanted to. But you can bet your bottom dollar than when I lose some weight I'm joining a team by God!!! I'll be the oldest player on the team lmao. It's getting warmer out so swimming is comming faster and faster---I could go by myself but it's the whole getting my wheelchair out of the truck by myslef and putting it back in. I can't walk the like 1000 ft to the lake and back. SOON!!! SOON SOON I will be able to!! I wish I could just swimming this weight off and keep it off--like some kind of fountian of weight loss or something lmao. Well I just got an email about the documented diet thing so I'm gonna go read that. I'll post more later!!!! Always, ~Angie!

Angie, I'm glad things are finally happening for you. Even the little steps that seem to take forever, will begin to come quicker. Stay positive and keep watching for that End goal. Approval! It took me a year once I found my physician to the point of my approval.. so be prepared it may take a bit. Girl, but once you get to that phone call that says YOU'RE APPROVED!! Nothing else is like it. I sat and cried for 10 minutes. It was like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders... one that had been there for nearly 30 years. Hang in there, and keep after it. Keep going to the doctor monthly and get that documentation. Insurance companies want us to fail, so they don't have to pay for these things. That's why there is so much criteria to fulfill. They don't think we will take all the steps. Little do they know. WE WANT THIS!! Show them you mean business!!!! Denise