Early this week I went for my pre-op physical and my PCP filled out all the paperwork that the surgeon's office required. Once they received it they went ahead and sent it to my insurance company. I have been looking into the approval process for DMBA and have read from some people that they were approved in 48 hours!!! I would love that to be me, I don't know how I will handle the 2 weeks the surgeon's office said it could take. 

I didn't think to contact DMBA to make sure they received it but will make sure to do so on Tuesday. Hopefully they will approve me right away, I'm hoping to have surgery in the middle of February. Ambitious? maybe, we'll see.

This week I had my psych eval, I was really nervous about it and spent a lot of time trying to research what the session would be like. What I found was a mix of really in-depth and not so much.

When I made the appointment I assumed that I could just do it over my lunch hour so I scheduled only one hour for it. Boy was that a mistake...my session started at 1:00 pm and went all the way through 4:30 pm 

I've suffered from depression for the last couple of years so I was worried this would cause an issue with getting the go ahead from the psychologist, thankfully I don't think that was the case. 

We spent a lot of time discussing the surgery, what I knew about it and the reasons why I wanted to take that step now. We talked about a support system at home and all the changes that my body would go through. Much of it I was already familiar with because I seriously spent so much time researching WLS before I actually made the decision to go that route. 

As part of the meeting I took a personality test I think. There were questions about how I felt people felt about me, how I related to other people and things that I'd done in the past. I found it really surprising how accurately she described me from the answers that I gave. I mean, I knew that the whole purpose of the test was that but still...

In all, that is the first check mark on my criteria list for my insurance. Next step, sleep study