Pre-Ops Monday!!!!!
I wanted to let everyone know that I am going Monday for all of my Pre-op appts. I hope that everything goes as planned and then shortly afterward I am looking for those 3 SPECIAL WORDS.......YOU ARE APPROVED.....We will just have to wait and see.......
WISH ME LUCK!!!!! 
Congrats on your pre-ops and your upcoming surgery date.
I don't mean to sound like the 'downer' here, but why is your doctor having you do your pre-ops before you even get your approval? Why is your surgery already scheduled?
I'm telling you from first hand experience, that could make for a HUGE disappointment.
My surgeon scheduled my surgery date for Tuesday October 11, 2005. I went and had all of my pre-ops done and everything. I was completely ready. On the afternoon of Thursday October 6, I found out that I was approved, but the insurance company would only pay $1000, so I would be required to pay almost $15,000 by the next day if I wanted to keep my surgery date. That just tore my world apart. I knew that there was no way that I could come up with $15K in less than 24 hours.
A couple of months later I started a new job at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas. I had heard that it was super easy to have the surgery done there. Well, unfortunately, they changed their medical policy because so many people had the surgery. In 12 months time, 48 people in my office alone had gastric bypass surgery, only paying a $45 deductible. The insurance company paid EVERYTHING else.
So...I had to follow the medical policy to a T. It took me a year and a half to get approved. I saw about 4 denial letters before I got the approval letter. I was finally able to have my WLS on July 18, 2007...almost 2 years after my original date.
I know that it's not that hard for everyone to get approved, but I know that it is that hard for some of us. For me, I became very, very depressed dealing with all of this.
I just don't want you to get your hopes up and then something like that happen.
I wish you all the luck in the world and hope that your approval is much easier to obtain then mine was.
Once again, I'm sorry to sound so negative about this, but I just know how it feels to have everything ready and then everything just slips away. I just don't want you to get your hopes up and then something bad happen.
I pray that everything goes great for you. I would never wish what I went through on anyone.
I'm here if you ever need to talk.
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