***If you missed my last post, I found out yesterday that my primary care doctor didn't have a record of my weight in 2008 or 2009 because I had started declining being weighed. Just because I was too proud to let other people see how much I weighed, I might not be able to satisfy my insurance company's requirements to be approved for the surgery.
First of all I must thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers. They worked, and I got the information I needed today. My husband had the wonderful idea of my trying to reach my old OB/Gyn to see if they had a weight for me in 2009. I have been trying to reach them all day. The nurses have been tied up (there must be a lot of pregnant women in labor today is all I can figure!) because I have been on hold for over 20 minutes twice before hanging up. Both the medical record persons line and administrator's line went straight to voicemail. On the latter's voicemail I started begging for them to just call me and tell me if they could just let me know if I had let them weigh me when I came in for my annual pap smear.
Five minutes ago, the medical record person called me back and said I did indeed get weighed in December of 2009 - and (Thank you, God) my weight put me in at a BMI over 40. She's faxing the info to Hospital C today. All of the sudden, I feel like a boulder has been lifted off my shoulders. I will be saying extra prayers of thanks tonight, and that includes to all of you who have been so supportive in your words, thoughts, and prayers.
Great lesson learned - being too proud will cost you. Maybe not now, but eventually. Be honest with yourself and others, and take what's coming, it's the only way you will keep moving forward.
First of all I must thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers. They worked, and I got the information I needed today. My husband had the wonderful idea of my trying to reach my old OB/Gyn to see if they had a weight for me in 2009. I have been trying to reach them all day. The nurses have been tied up (there must be a lot of pregnant women in labor today is all I can figure!) because I have been on hold for over 20 minutes twice before hanging up. Both the medical record persons line and administrator's line went straight to voicemail. On the latter's voicemail I started begging for them to just call me and tell me if they could just let me know if I had let them weigh me when I came in for my annual pap smear.
Five minutes ago, the medical record person called me back and said I did indeed get weighed in December of 2009 - and (Thank you, God) my weight put me in at a BMI over 40. She's faxing the info to Hospital C today. All of the sudden, I feel like a boulder has been lifted off my shoulders. I will be saying extra prayers of thanks tonight, and that includes to all of you who have been so supportive in your words, thoughts, and prayers.
Great lesson learned - being too proud will cost you. Maybe not now, but eventually. Be honest with yourself and others, and take what's coming, it's the only way you will keep moving forward.
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