Hi everyone!

I am waiting for a surgery date to have my surgery. This waiting is very frustrating to me. My best friend and I are going through this process together. She has not even done her pre-op tests and already has her date set for the 29th of this month! I am very happy for her but my question is why is it taking me so long to get a date set? Maybe there is something I'm  not understanding about this whole thing. She has a lot of heath problems and a BMI of 35 and I don't , just a BMI OF 47.3 and bad knees and occassional high blood pressure. I have done all my pre-op testing and just really frustrated...Can u please help me understand...


Kisa

kisa, have u been approved by your insurance yet?  that might be the hold up.  since you don't have a lot of physical problems that might be it.  call your insurace and find out what the scoop is. good luck to u.  vick

Kisa.. welcome!
Do you and her have the same surgeon? I too have to ask the question, has your insurance approved the procedure? If not that is likely the hold up..
Not that I like to encourage being a pain in the butt.. but remember the saying the squeeky wheel gets theoil.. maybe you need to call and bug em every few days, til they get tired of hearing fro you, then they'll get you in if you are approved.
if that doesn't work, or if you want to just get to the bottom of it, call there, tell em about your friend being scheduled without anything completed yet, and you'd like to know why since you have complied, they are not schedukling you.

Please keep us posted on what you hear! Best of luck getting on that schedule soon!

I can see why you'd be frustrated. I agree with the other posters about the insurance approval and about bugging your surgeons office. Hang in there and hopefully you'll have a date soon!

Rhonda

Hi Kisa, welcome to the group. Frustrating when things get dragged out. The other posters have great ideas, nothing new from my point of view, just wanting to welcome you. Invite your friend to join the group too if she wishes. Hugs