The Longest 29 Days of My Life
I posted a few weeks about how I had my psychological evaluation for my weight loss surgery and guess what?! I called my surgeons office this morning just to check after allowing three weeks (an extra week just to make sure!) for the report to be sent from my psychologist’s office to the surgeons office and they have received the report. I was also excited to hear that the request for insurance approval was sent off yesterday! She said it usually takes about 30 days with my insurance (the insurance says 30-90 days but this person handles this kind of thing on a daily basis and said I should hear something in 30 days) and that I would get the letter about 3 days before the surgeon’s office did. This has been what I have been working toward for the past 4 months (technically the last 4 years)! Everyone from the surgeon’s office to my own family doctor keeps assuring me that it will go through my insurance without any problems but I am still on pins and needles just waiting for the approval (I hope it’s an approval!). Most of the surgeries seem to be scheduled about a month out so I should be having my surgery in about two months! I am so excited that I am dancing around my bedroom (that counts are exercise too, right?!). If for some reason I do get denied then I will just have to do whatever more the insurance company asks for me to do. It is a covered procedure through the insurance and I have done everything (and MORE) for the eligibility requirements so maybe I shouldn’t be so worried about it and should just relax like they are all telling me to do. They deal with insurance and this stuff everyday so they would know best, but I guess I don’t want to assume and prepare for an approval and then be destroyed if I get denied. So- 29 days and counting till I (hopefully) have my approval and surgery date!
