Okay here we go. Some of you may have seen me looming around for the last past couple months. Hiya I’m back yet again to give you guys’ mai updates. Im 19 female from Chicago i weigh in at 365 now and not happy about it!!! I have been trying to get Lap Band for the last past year. I have gone through mai 6 month dietary evaluation for Ingalls and then I did all the pre-opt tests such as the EKG CxR barium swallow blood work and all those super things. I even had a surgeon picked out through Rush Hospital in Chicago. Mai insurance even said I was good to go even though I had to fight them tooth and nail to have them say that lol. I was to go in on FEb 19 and get mai surgery date scheduled BUT get this… After all that the surgeon that I HAD (Dr. Meyers) the insurance called me on the 18th of Feb and told me that they’d pay for the surgeon himself but NOT the hospital or the surgery center so i needed to find someone else to go with or the surgery would be a no-go. GO FIGURE!! So now I’m getting re-pushed to a different surgeon (Dr. Rashand from University of Chicago) they scheduled me to meet with their nutritionist, psychologist, and the surgeon himself. I tried to explain that I’ve been though the ringer and have already done the preemptive workup multiple times. I had to give them 4 days of mai food logs and then they were to discuss me on Wednesday which was yesterday. I got the call on Tuesday a whole day earlier that IM APPROVED!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I now have to go to an information session on March 11th with mai support person from mai family. After that I go back to University of Chicago and meet with the team and stay there all day doing blood work, physical, chest x ray, barium swallow, EKG, and anything else they can pull out of their bag of tricks! Once that’s all done (AGAIN! ]=) then I will be appointed a surgery date and start mai 2 week liquid pre-op diet. I am really hoping i am banded by the end of this month i really honestly am !! 2 years is soo long to have waited for a start to a new life now to have had it in mai reach and pulled back again is just heartbreaking and im a tender heart gahhh im just flustered soryyy ppl.
Has this ever happened to anyone else?!?!?!?
if anyone has myspace and wants to talk to me add me please im lookin for ppl around mai age or even close to mai area
__________________ After being accepted and denied multiple times.
Finally I put though an appeal with the insurance
and am really APPROVED!!! yay!Pre-Op work up --> May 19th
High Protein Diet for 2 Weeks [=
Surgery ---> June 3rd @ hospital by 6am
Surgeon ---> Vivik Prachand University of Chicago
Starting Weight at 1st consultation = 365.0
Current Weight = 342.6
Goal = 200
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That is very depressing. I'm so sorry about the setbacks, yet super glad that you're approved... once again! I was fortunate enough to be approved my second time around & it happened pretty immediately there after.
Doesnt it annoy you when people don't spell properly? It's MY not MAI. Sorry just hate when people don't spell properly. Overall this hasn't happened to me but I would definetly hate to be in that kind of position, thinking your going to go ahead with the surgery and then getting the knock back would definetly make you feel like crap. Hope every thing goes well for you
I hope you were kidding about the spelling...since you spelled "definitely" twice wrong :)
Lol how embarrassing lol, thanks, usually I'm a great speller but you know how you get blonde moments? That was one of them lol, thanks on the correction
getting banded at UIC? thats where i was banded. they take great care of you there. being a minor, they put me in CICU after the surgery. the staff there were all amazing, i had a different surgeon.
I hope you were kidding about the spelling...since you spelled "definitely" twice wrong :)
To me the spelling of "definitely" wrong is eh - whatever but the "mai" thing makes me crazy .. mainly because I assume the OP knows the correct spelling of "my" and chooses to use "mai" instead as "l33t speak" or whatever you would like to call it. The rest of her post is relatively well said. (Not knocking you nicolerose - wish you best of luck in your journey).
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Banded on January 23, 2008 by Dr.Robin Woodhead, Delta BC
I have been trying to get Lap Band for the last past year. I have gone through mai 6 month dietary evaluation for Ingalls and then I did all the pre-opt tests such as the EKG CxR barium swallow blood work and all those super things. I even had a surgeon picked out through Rush Hospital in Chicago. Mai insurance even said I was good to go even though I had to fight them tooth and nail to have them say that lol. I was to go in on FEb 19 and get mai surgery date scheduled BUT get this… After all that the surgeon that I HAD (Dr. Meyers) the insurance called me on the 18th of Feb and told me that they’d pay for the surgeon himself but NOT the hospital or the surgery center so i needed to find someone else to go with or the surgery would be a no-go
. I tried to explain that I’ve been though the ringer and have already done the preemptive workup multiple times. I had to give them 4 days of mai food logs and then they were to discuss me on Wednesday which was yesterday. I got the call on Tuesday a whole day earlier that IM APPROVED!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I now have to go to an information session on March 11th with mai support person from mai family. After that I go back to University of Chicago and meet with the team and stay there all day doing blood work, physical, chest x ray, barium swallow, EKG, and anything else they can pull out of their bag of tricks!
Once that’s all done (AGAIN! ]=) then I will be appointed a surgery date and start mai 2 week liquid pre-op diet. I am really hoping i am banded by the end of this month i really honestly am !! 2 years is soo long to have waited for a start to a new life now to have had it in mai reach and pulled back again is just heartbreaking and im a tender heart gahhh im just flustered 
soryyy ppl.
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