everything IS finally faxed over to Medical Mutual as of yesterday May 23rd, 2006. It took a ton of phone calls out of someone who HATES making phone calls for that to happen. The woman on the phone I spoke to was confused denying that they had received the psych exam, but she mentioned sharon had faxed everything to med mutual yesterday, and the person i spoke to faxed my psych exam on monday so that makes sense.

-- now its just wait, cross, fingers, wait, wait wait wait wait.......

Today I went to see the psych doctor Doctor Taliaferro) to see what the hell the problem was. It has been TWENTY days since I saw him for my psych evaluation.. thats twenty days too long, and twenty days delaying my potential LAP-BAND® surgery over a fucking psych evaluation.

The office claimed to have sent the information on thursday but the weight management center called me today, saying the had not received it.
Extremely annoyed, I discovered that he wasnt even in the office...

my patience is definitely being tested here. The nurse predicted that I would be scheduled end of july early august for the band.. I still dont know if my psych eval has been faxed over. How annoying is that? The lady who controls the predetermination packets will not be in until later.

I have good news though -- metformin (glucophage) has melted five pounds off of me in three days. Its not water either. Discounting water weight, it would have been eight pounds.

tick tock tick tock tick tock... i dont know what is wrong with the man who is preparing my psych eval . It has been 14 days and it still hasnt been faxed over!! That is my ticket to band land and he is taking far to long to deliver - what the junk. half the problem is waiting on all these PEOPLE. dont they want to turn the geers in that center?

I have Good news. Today I have completed the medical evaluation and my PRE-D packet looks excellent according to the doctor I saw regarding this.
She told me that approval is most likely definite because they had been working with med-mutual the whole time. (!)

The only thing is my Psychiatrist still has not sent my psych evaluation. The doc told me we are looking at end of july early august for the surgery.