reagan

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I went to the nutrition class today, and i got my letter while i was there telling me my surgery date is going to be April 13th and yes that is a Friday!!!!!   I dont even care im just glad its there!!!  Im a poet and dont know it!!!   Finally I got my date!!!!!!!!!!!!

I took the day off from school today and went and did my pre op today.  I did the upper GI, chest xray , ekg and labs.  The doctor said everything was good and I am officially cleared for surgery!!  Hopefully the fat doctor's office will call me in a couple of days for a surgery date Im still prayin for april 13th or 16th. I had put 5 lbs on in the last 1month that sucks, I had an allergic reaction to something and was put on steroids, and man they make me eat like a horse!!  Hopefully it wont be long now till im on the losing side.  One thing i wonder about though and I dont mean this in a mean way but i look at a lot of the before and after pics on here and alot of the people look a lot older after they loose there weight, that kinda scares me cause i think i look old now but anyway it wouldnt stop me from having the surgery, well gotta go study!!

Well, Im in a slightly better mood than before, I have been consumed with school for the last week and a half and I was flunking by 2 stinking points, I have now pulled myself out with a C, I hope I can just maintain it now I only got 7 more weeks to go. It would suck so bad to flunk out now.  I have the cardiac test next wednesday im already studying for it.  As for the whole surgery thing who knows when thats going to happen.  I supposedly have my last appt. with the head shrinker tomorrow, then monday i do my preop testing then next friday i do my nutrition class, its all scheduled, supposedly I may know a surgery date by next wednesday so I guess we will see.  Im still hoping for april 13th or the 16th if i dont get one of those days then i will have to wait till the end of june, which I know is only 3 months away but I dont want to wait that long, I want to be on my way to skinny ville NOW!!!.
I have just decided i got to quit worrying about it, my focus has to be on school right now, I got to get through this now! not later.
If it happens it happens if it dont it dont, I have spent the last 35 years with this fat ass I can wait 3 more months i guess.

OK I got a question and im hoping someone will answer it, Im to website iliterate to figure out how to post it on the boards, but anyway ive been looking at the protien shakes and waters, and im wondering if there is a protien powder out there that you can add to bottles of water, or flavored water.  Those protien waters you can buy are so expensive, ive got some of the shake powder but im wanting something i can put in my water and go about my day. If there is something like that please tell me whats it called and where can i get it.
Thanks

It has been awhile since I got on here last, I have actually been on spring break this whole week and I thought I would get to sit back relax a bit, do the things that I have been putting off cause of school.  Well that hasnt quite worked out for me unfortunately oh yea and the whole surgery thing happening this week didnt work out either.  First of all school sucks we have a big test monday so I have had to study all week, plus they laid all this extra CRAP!! on us at the last minute all due monday, im so sick of school I could puke.  I literally studied over 50 hours for my last test, guess what i got? didnt pass it by 2 points.  This next test is cardiac and the teacher sucks, I have pretty much had to teach it all to myself this week.  Enough of that, I am very aggrivated at Amy who works at the fat doctors all along she has lead me to believe that i could get all pre-op stuff done in time to have surgery this past week.  Obviously that hasnt happened,  she had told me i would see the shrink once maybe twice, so wednesday (which was my 3rd appt with the head shrinker)  I asked her if she thought something was wrong with me or what because she wanted to schedule another appt.  I said no offense to you i like talking to you but i though this was a once or twice thing whats going on here?  She explained to me that info wasnt getting passed on like it should and she sees all the patients at least 3 to 4 times some even up to 12 also she said i never really had a chance of surgery this week because there is yet another doctor i have to see.  I guess the letter from my personal family doctor clearing me for surgery  and the letter from the cardiologist clearing me for surgery and the actual surgeon who will be doing it saying im a good candidate is all not enough.  I now have to see another guy who will look at all my stuff that ive turned in and he will say wether im good to go or not.  All I gotta say is PAIN IN THE ASS!!  I understand this is all part of it but all this time i feel like i have not been told things i should have been told.  Anyway now im talking to the person I should have been talking to all along and i feel like this time it all might be happening for sure now.  Ive got my nutrition class scheduled my last appt with the head shrink and then my upper gi and chest xray all with in the next 2 weeks, and she says i can probably count on having surgery April 13 or the 16 so I hope i hope i hope i hope it happens for me this time, we will see i guess.
My poor husband , when he calls home I really have no business griping about my stuff, with what he sees and does on a daily basis in iraq, he was homesick yesterday when i talked to him, he still has no clue about all this im up to.  I miss him very much.  he has been gone for all most 9 months to the day and if he stays the full tour it will be another 9 months right now this very minute i cannot even image another 9 months.  I feel like my other half is gone, i am so used to him not being here, i feel like im not even married anymore.  I will get to see him for 2 weeks in june for his leave and I cant wait although i had hoped to be 100 pounds lighter by then but i just want to see him and hold and well never mind i wont say anymore on that subject!!
I guess thats all i got for now, i have more homework i got to get done before monday.  Oh yea my sisters baby sitter decided she would go on vacation this week so i have been baby sitting for my niece and nephew this week which i love them dearly they are so much fun but so much work she is 19 months and he is 8 months.  and my 12 year old decides that painting her bathroom faucet with hot pink fingernail polish  would be so cool!  so how has your week been?

Well I called the insurance company one more time just to be sure they were still saying what they said friday, and they are im still approved or actually they said since im tricare standard i didnt need prior approval, only needed if im tricare prime so if i go by what they say i have wasted about 3 months now. So like I posted friday The doctors office wasnt in because they were moving to a new office building, i called them this morning and it took forever to get through, finally i did and it went straight to voice mail (of course) so i left amy a message and went to school, i had told her that i need to get that surgery date scheduled for next week while on my spring break.  She never returned my call, so i called again before there office closed, went straight to voice mail, I left another message and she still never returned my call.  I feel really bummed out because i feel like with only a week to go before spring break, its just to late and im not going to get that date.  I dont know I told myself if i didnt it was because i wasnt meant to have it yet and yeah that sds good but im still bummed out, and to top it all of i think i bombed a huge test today at school.  I have school all day tomorrow so I dont know if i will get a chance to call or not, wait a minute what am I saying? of course i will call i will make the time!! i cant let another day go by without knowing something.

Yesterday on my breaks I called the insurance company again and this time they said I was 100% approved, I did not get excited yet because I have been told this before, so throughout the course of the day during each one of my breaks I called them ( each time talking to someone different) a total of 5 calls each time they asured me that I was 100% approved for the surgery.  So I let myself get a little excited, I called the fat Doctors office to have Amy verify it for me and to get a surgery day set and wouldnt you know,    The office staff was out due to them changing buildings.  So once again I have to wait till monday to see whats going on.  I dont want to let myself get to excited in case Amy calls them and I find out there is something else I have to do or turn in before im officially approved because Ive been down that road 2 weeks ago!!  I wont let myself get to excited till I have a surgery date written in stone!!! Well thats all I got for now I have to go study for a test.

I called the insurance company today and they said they never recieved any faxes in the last couple of days and wouldnt you know Amy  wasnt in today to refax.  So 2 more days have been wasted and my window of opportunity is growing close.  It makes me feel powerless because there is nothing i could do.  I dont have any of the heart doctors info so i cant refax it myself like i would like to so i just have to sit and wait yet again till tomorrow!!!  It sucks so bad, Im trying to remain calm and patient 2 things i have a hard time doing!!

OK today Amy called (the gal who works for the fat doctor) and left me a message that she got all the info from the cardio doc and she faxed it all in to the insurance company!! So hopefully I will hear something this week!!!!