Is there hope? Is there a reason to keep trying?

My denial letter arrived today. "No life threatening reasons to approve". In a nutshell. Irony is a witch. Next letter in my mail behind that one is from my pulmonologist. I have sleep apnea. She wants me to make an appt to get treatment. The depression I felt gone for good has hit like a ton of sugar loaded in a brownie. I am not sure what to do now. Do I appeal? My liason with my surgeon's office, "Susan", came across making me feel I'm wasting time. I wanted this surgery for many reasons. Main one being I'm scared to death of continueing being fat. My sister is 11 yrs older than me and suffering such major health related problems I worry every night about ending up like her. "Susan" said that I have not tried enought diets. My argument was they only wanted to know about "Dr overseen" diets. I admitted I never died many diets overseen by a Dr. (Only 1). Me and my husband were trying to make ends meet with 2 kids so we didn't have much money to go to a Dr and pay out the butt on diet drugs. I tried to lose weight by myself. Slim Fast, calorie counting, exercising, etc. But that is not what the insurance company or "Susan" wanted to know about. So I feel as if I've lost hope. Since Dr. Selinkoff put me on Sugar Busters I've lost 30 pounds in about 2-3 months. "Susan" didn't care or ask. Maybe I'm placing blame but at the moment I feel as if everything is hopeless and that I may as well go gorge myself on a pint of Ben & Jerry's since I feel I have just lost my lifeline. Please help.

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