The Waiting Game

So, I went to my doctors appointment on Thursday and all went well. I weighed in a pound smaller then the last time I was there, which showed progress on my end. I could have lost more but lately with all these family reunions and summer school and kids and it being summer, I have had no time (or actually MADE no time) for exercise and I have not made wise decisions when it came to eating. This is something I need to change altogether when I have my surgery. I keep telling myself that I am going to start meal prepping and doing better at eating but I haven't done so yet. Habits, habits, habits....I need to make some good ones. Anyways, so my surgeons nursed submitted my paperwork to my insurance for approval for the lap band surgery and now I WAIT!!! I hate this waiting game. It's all thats on my mind since Thursday. I wonder how long it will take to hear back from them...

Aaaaahhhh....I'm NERVOUS.

It's 2am and I have to be up at 7am to get ready for a doctors appointment at 830am. I was told that I needed to lose weight and I dont think that I have...I dont want this to be something that holds my surgery back and pushes it out longer. I guess I should have considered maybe...oh, I dont know....losing weight....LOL...but it's just been a MAD busy summer. I do way better in the winter and spring times, as far as losing weight goes...but this summer has just been POOPY as far as trying to lose weight. I see my nutritionist at 8 and as soon as she puts in her notes to my surgeon, his nurse will submit my paperwork to my insurance. I hope it all goes well. I really hope that I can find out tomorrow or something within the next week or so if and when I can have surgery. I'm just feeling super nervous.

PS. My sister in law wants to do a comparison type thing or a side by side, step by step and compare my journey to weightloss and her's. She will do it with just diet and exercise and so I was game. It would be beneficial to people thinking of weather to go "natural" or have surgery for weight loss. Keep you posted on that.

YAY...

I got a call from the psychiatrist office today that the "testing" or evaluation or what ever, was APPROVED and that I can go in to the office tomorrow to take the final tests I need in order to submit my paperwork in to insurance for approval for my surgery. I am super uber excited. Can't hardly wait :)

That's all!! LOL

Stuck in LIMBO

So I am sooooo close to this I can smell it. I am just waiting for my psychiatric evaluation. I went to the psychiatrist office and he thought that I was there to get my head examined :/ LOL. I told him that I was there for weight loss/lapband evaluation and his whole demeanor changed. I guess there is a process that happens with insurance and pre-authorized testing and different things like that. So basically he took down some information about me and family history and weight loss attempts and then when he gets authorization from the insurance company that they will pay for the tests he will call me back and I will just take the tests in his office. He says its just paper tests with questions and I can just do it unsupervised in his office and then I am done. After he reads through my papers, he will make an assessment and turn that in to my doctor and once that is done my doctor has all he needs to submit my paperwork to the insurance.

I have been researching how long authorization takes once paperwork is submitted through insurance, specifically BCBS (blue cross blue shield)  and it varies from as little as 24 hours to 1 month. That makes me so nervous. Depending on how soon my psychiatrist gets this approved, I can be in surgery with in a month. I am so nervous and anxious my stomach ties every time I think about it.

I'm looking for a ticker to keep track of my BMI and weight and progress of my weight loss. Any good websites out there? I wanna add it to my blog some how....I don't even know how to spice my page up...let me first learn how to do that before I try to add the ticker. ;)