Shingles
Hello fellow NYers, I posted a few days ago with insurance troubles....I am appealing my denial for WLS, and don't have any hope that I will be approved. With all this stress and emotions the past few days I developed shingles! I went to emergancy last evening, because my nurse at my PCP's office said I couldn't wait till Monday. I have it on my face and onto my head. It is so painful and itchy all at the same time. Dr. is concerned about me getting it in the eye, cause it will cause permanent damage and create a scar on the pupil and I will have a spot on my eye for life! Another sympton this morning is my nodes/glands all around my face are swollen and hurt so much. Yup just adds more to this fat face! So along with this rotten policy I have, I have another medical bill to pay!
I want to thank the two people that contacted me off-line, and I thought I had a sad story. I have taken back my power and made the decision to change insurance providers and try again early in 2006 for the WLS. I guess I made myself sick enough.
Thank you for listening, I will continue to be the lurker, this is a wonderful site. Bless you all, pre-op and post-op this is a journey like no other.
Lucy C
Mary, you should see me I look like I have been in a fight and lost!!! To day was the day my son, his fiance and his future mother-in-law came to visit and have dinner with our whole family! The mother-in-law is from out of town....wow what an impression I gave her. I kept a hat on to cover the blisters on my head and no make up what so ever....I looked a fright! I will never give up my desire for WLS and hopefully the next time we meet on August 3rd, 2006 I will look like a completely different person! I sat across the table from her during dinner and my son sat next to me and he kept commenting how awful and how large my nose and face are at this time.....I told him on the phone this morning that I looked a whole lot different. Well as I sit here in pain and itching, it's time to take more medication and call it a day! Boy I don't wish this on any body! I will never give up on the WLS, I want to join others on their successes!
Lucy
Dawn,
OMG I may get these again????? Doctor told me I won't get them ever again. I don't wish these on any one, they are so painful, itchy, burning etc. I am on meds and they feel they caught it before it was to late to start on the anti viral meds. Yesterday I called for some pain meds cause I am so sore, I couldn't lay on my left side. The meds are working great, I feel much better. My head is so sore I can't even run my fingers through my hair, let alone try to comb it. I am just taking it easy and being home for the week. I got a call from my daughter last night and she was upset about something and then got upset with me.....and oh boy the pain just felt like a lightning bolt going through me. So I guess staying calm is the best thing I can do for now.
Speaking of staying calm, I must have sounded out of it when insurance company phoned this morning to inform me they received my appeal and I should hear verbally and with a letter by 9/7/05 of their decision.
I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm calm.......
Lucy
Lucy,
I'm so sorry to hear all the trials and tribulations that you have had to endure... no one should have to go through what you have. Please don't give up -- your health and your life are worth fighting for! While I'm not exactly a neighbor of yours, I do live relatively close (in Naples, Ontario county) and if you need someone to talk to please feel free to contact me. I use yahoo messenger, screen name: spirited_vixen64
Good luck to you and please let us know how you are doing.
Gentle hugs,
Lisa Z.
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