Finally!!
I've finally got a surgery date! I'm so excited!
I actually ended up having to switch surgeons because the one I had was dragging his feet so badly. He's been a bariatric surgeon for a while, but this area of his practice is new. I was in the group of the first five patients that he was going to have, and he was planning on flying in a specialist from Australia to assist with those first five procedures. Well, he kept giving me the run-around about when we were going to do it (originally, he said mid-October, now he's saying that he might be ready to SCHEDULE it in early December...). I finally found out (after calling him and telling him that I was considering switching surgeons because he kept giving me time frames and then falling through on them) that the reason for the hold up is that the other four patients were paying cash, and he was giving them more time to save for it! I have researched this procedure so much (and so well, I might add!) that I am totally READY, and his constant run-around was driving me batty. Add to that the fact that my husband's insurance is changing a bit on Jan. 1st... The insurance will be the same, but our co-pays will go up, and the hospital co-pay will be going up six-fold!! Yikes!
So, anyway, I started researching other surgeons, and I found one that I really like. I called them today, and they actually scheduled my surgery for November 17th! Wow! I'm only two weeks away now! Can you tell that I'm excited?
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