*** MONDAY ROLL CALL ***

I hope everyone had a great "stress free" weekend. Here's to a new week with less problems than last week!! Here are our daily get to know you questions: 1. What is your favorite drink of choice? 2. Where were you born, and how far away from your birthplace do you live now? 3. Name one thing that you are grateful for. 4. Did your insurance pay for your WLS or did you self-pay? How much trouble did you have with insurance? Thanks to all of you *****sponded to my roll call. If you liked answering my questions and enjoyed reading all the responses please let me know, so we can keep doing it!! Blessings, Suzzette

1. What is your favorite drink of choice? Iced Tea and Diet Coke. 2. Where were you born, and how far away from your birthplace do you live now? I was born in Houston, Texas. I live about 25 miles from my birthplace. Although, I lived in Kansas for 8 years while growing up. 3. Name one thing that you are grateful for. God's mercy!! 4. Did your insurance pay for your WLS or did you self-pay? How much trouble did you have with insurance? I was self pay. There was a written Exclusion for ANY KIND of WLS in our policy.

Good Morning, Suzzette & Everyone! 1. Right now, I am enjoying my coffee every morning and afternoon; it's decaf with sweetner and suger free french vanilla creamer. 2. I was born in Angola, IN. and live about 30 miles from there, but I have lived on the same property that I was raised on, all my life. My husband and I bought acreage from my parents. 3. My salvation! Thank You, Jesus! 4. Yes, our insurance paid for it. We only had to pay around $900 total. I had two surgeries the week that I was in the hospital and the bill came to over $56,000. SO we were very happy with how much our insurance covered. I was approved three days after submitting it to the insurance company. God bless you all! Love, Cindy 465/321/150

Good morning Everyone, I hope your weekend was as good as mine. I spent the weekend enjoying life. We spent the weekend rollerblading, and walking the nature trails down by Kent lake. We are so blessed by this surgery. I can't believe I am doing the thing's I am doing these day's. I thank the Lord for it. He has given me (us) so many blessing through this surgery. How can we thank Him enough! Q.O.T.D. 1. What is your favorite drink of choice? Water, and Designers Whey, chocolate protein drink. 2. Where were you born, and how far away from your birthplace do you live now? Romulus Michigan. I live about 10 miles from there. I lived in Houston for about 6 months, I will never go back to Texas because of my experiences there. 3. Name one thing that you are grateful for. It is so hard to name just one, so with out a doubt it has to be my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who saves us from all damnation and gives us eternal life. THANK YOU JESUS! 4. Did your insurance pay for your WLS or did you self-pay? How much trouble did you have with insurance? My insurance paid. It took me a year to get final approval, and have the surgery done. In the end it is worth fighting for. Hope you all have a blessed day, Annette L.

Good Mornin' and it's a gorgeous one here in So. FL. today. 1. My favorite drink(s) of choice are: cafe con leche w/splenda and peach ice tea.(decaf) 2. I was born in Powell, TN (Eastern part of the state) and I have lived now for 9 years in Miami, FL.....a little ways from home. 3. I am grateful for God the Father who offered His Son's redeeming blood that provides me forgiveneess of my sins and the comfort of the Holy Spirit. 4. Yes, insurance paid for my WLS....I was approved four days after my submitted application. One year later, the policy was reworked and all bariatric surgeries were eliminated. God's confirmation that timing was in His control. Have a blessed day. luvitsunnyv

Good Morning Suzzette and everybody else! It has been absolutely beautiful here in VA this weekend. I can't believe that it is supposed to be 83 degrees here today and it is MARCH!!!! 1. What is your favorite drink of choice? decaf tea, fresca, cappucino - LOVE IT! 2. Where were you born, and how far away from your birthplace do you live now? Edenton, NC - a beautiful historic town. I live about an hour and a half from there now. Most of my family no longer lives there, but I grew up there...spent my entire life there until 1990 when I moved to VA. 3. Name one thing that you are grateful for. Can't name just one. LOVE, saving grace of God, and my awesome husband and children. 4. Did your insurance pay for your WLS or did you self-pay? How much trouble did you have with insurance? I was fortunate to have my surgery paid almost in full. I had already met my catastrophic cap for the year when I had it. I did not have to pay but around $40 for things that were not covered at the hospital, and then of course the program fee of my surgeon's office which was $395. I did not have trouble getting everything done. Luckily, I had chosen tricare standard instead of prime. Had I been a prime patient, things would have been much different. I am incredibly thankful, because I would not have been able to have the surgery otherwise. Have a great day! Stephanie

Good morning all and Happy Monday. I love this time of year; when it starts to get warmer and flowers start to bloom. To me, it's like a new birth of life. Everything is so colorful and alive. QOD: 1. What is your favorite drink of choice? Iced Tea 2. Where were you born, and how far away from your birthplace do you live now? Vineland, NJ. I live about 4 miles from there. 3. Name one thing that you are grateful for. God's mercy and grace that is new everyday and even though I fall short of what He would want me to be, He still sees me as holy and blameless through the blood of Christ. 4. Did your insurance pay for your WLS or did you self-pay? How much trouble did you have with insurance? My insurance paid...I hope. I haven't received the final EOB yet, but it was approved. I did have to pay for 3 months of cobra however since my husband was fired and he was the subscriber. Have a great day!! Dawn

Good morning everyone. Sorry it has been awhile since i have posted, but things have been real busy. 1. What is your favorite drink of choice? i don't really have a favorite drink, anymore. it use to be Coke, but now i guess it could be water. 2. Where were you born, and how far away from your birthplace do you live now? I was born in Germany and I live in Georgia....do the math. 3. Name one thing that you are grateful for. my family(wife, kids, church,father, brother) 4. Did your insurance pay for your WLS or did you self-pay? How much trouble did you have with insurance? insurance pay with no trouble Ken

Good morning Suzzette. I do enjoy the questions post, we get to learn about each other, and they are fun...(makes me think ) 1. I like decaf coffee with a spoon of sugar free cafe mocha. Also drink some diet DrPepper but feel a bit guilty about that. 2.I was born in the same county I currently live in. We have lived in several states and two places outside the country and here I am back in my home county. However, after I retire we are moving to another state mainly just to be close to one of our sons. The move will actually put us closer to all of our sons. 3. I am grateful for wonderful Christian writers since I love to read. 4. My insurance paid. My out of pocket expenses prior to WLS were about $2,000 and my co-pay for the actual surgery is about $1,200. Blessings!

Hi Suzzette and everyone else. This weekend I painted my new office and went to church and after church got to go to dinner with my sister and her family and my aunt who is visisting from ILL. and my husband. 1. What is your favorite drink of choice? well Im still pre-op so its coka cola and mt. dew 2. Where were you born, and how far away from your birthplace do you live now? I was born in Greencastle, Indiana and I live about 7 miles from the hospital. 3. Name one thing that you are grateful for. death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the blood he shed for our sins. 4. Did your insurance pay for your WLS or did you self-pay? How much trouble did you have with insurance? Im still fighting ins. its been over a year and nothing yet. Thank you for these questions, I really enjoyed reading everyone elses and answering myself.