Oh, my. The last few days have been well, weird, difficult, upsetting, depressing, enlightening. Shall I go on? I got a call Tuesday night that my surgery was being cancelled. The short version of this story is that someone in the surgeon's office screwed up. They submitted to my insurance company and shouldn't have. They told me that if my doc accepted my money, he'd be breaking the law. Well, that's not true. I talked with Medicaid and there is no rule like that at all. They thought it was ridiculous and suggested I call the Board of Healing Arts. I will call them, no worries there.Having the surgery cancelled was quite a blow. I was so upset and so angry. And so devastated. This was the start of my new life. But later, I realized that I was sort of relieved. I was having bad feelings about the doctor and his staff from the beginning. And I kept reading all the band horror stories on LBT. There are so many. I hadn't been feeling totally comfortable about the band. The issues with it seem to be things that I think could easily happen to me. It also seems that bands aren't made to last forever. Being self-pay, I was worried about complications. And what about fills after the first year? That wasn't going to be covered.
I'm looking hard at VSG...vertical sleeve gastrectomy. I've heard good things. I've been lurking over at the sleeve forum. I put a call in with a surgeon in San Francisco. He's done more than 1000. The cost seems to be just a bit more than the band would be here. Of course, we'll have to travel. S is okay with that. I think the sleeve might be better for her too.
I really think we should all stop and really listen when we're having doubts. God thumps us on the head but we don't always listen. I wanted this so badly that I just wasn't hearing. But I don't think I could have gone through with banding. This whole SNAFU is a blessing in disguise. I'm asking for Divine inspiration here. If the sleeve isn't the right way to go, I'm sure there will be some sign about that. I just hope my desperation doesn't cause me to be deaf.
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That just sounds... bizarre. It makes no sense at all.
But like you said, sometimes God thumps us on the head. You were already getting a hinky feeling, but now the choice was made for you. Count it a blessing.
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