I WON MY APPEAL!!!! I'M APPROVED!!!! YIPPEEEE!!!

I can't believe how excited I am to do this post on our message board!!! I keep seeing everyone's approvals & I am so excited to be part of the gang (woo-hoo Denise...we are in this together now......I right behind you .....ready or not, here I come!)....

I have been calling the insurance company every day.  My file has been w/the 1st Level Appeals Committee since February 4th and every day I hear "it's still being reviewed".  Then, today I called and expected to hear the same thing & the rep said, "It says here that the 1st Level Appeals Committee APPROVED your request on February 14th and a letter was sent out on February 16th" (aka TODAY!)......so, I called Eloise at Centennial to tell her--we teared up--then she transferred me to Dr. Houston's office so that I could schedule my surgery date...(I can't believe I AM ACTUALLY FINALLY APPROVED!!!!)...., but Holly, who is the only one who schedules his surgery dates, was not in today.  My file is on her desk & she is suppos'd to call me tomorrow....Eloise did say that he does surgery on Mondays & Tuesdays & that he has 1 or 2 left for Feb & then has openings in March.....WHAT!?!?!?  OMGosh....February...that's next week.

 WOAH Nelly!! I mean, I need to kick caffeine RIGHT NOW!  Eloise even told me to get all my protein in order & "get my house ready" & everything cleared off my calendar for a while so that I can concentrate on my surgery & recovery.  (Typing this is really an out-of-fat-body experience).....so, um, eh, what the heck to I need.  I need to find out what I need to order & what I need to have in the house for when I get home....I know it is in these stacks of books &, I am sure, the Gastric Bypass Owner's Manual they sent me home with.

Breathe...breathe...breathe, Micheala.  Okay...I just want to take this in for a minute & let myself feel so excited that all the hard work of the appeal paid off & that I did it!! 

WHAT DO I NEED TO ORDER??? Ahhh...I am so excited.

xo, Micheala.