Today was just a rough day.  One of those days where you keep getting side tracked and have so many side things going on that it’s hard to concentrate!  I’m beginning to stress a little that year end is approaching rapidly and I still have so many pending things to take care of.  Plus, there have been so many and will be so many changes in my department at work and everything just seems up in the air at the moment.  First thing this morning my internet wasn’t working, so I had to go into work.  Was hoping I could just switch days, but my manager seemed to expect me to come in tomorrow too, so tomorrow I go back.  I like the one day in the office…to deal with things face to face, but any more than that, it can be a pain, because my monitors there are so much smaller and I have to drag all my paperwork back and forth.

I DID accomplish one thing today that helped put my mind at ease.  I contacted the insurance for the third time and asked them about the status of my surgery approval.  The lady I talked to told me it had been approved on November 29th.  I asked her if they had sent the letter to the doctor yet, but she couldn’t see that info.  I asked her for a reference # and she gave me the pre cert#.  I then called the doctor’s office and spoke with the scheduling lady and told her I had a pre cert # and she just went ahead and gave me a date.  She said first available date for surgery was Feb 5th and asked if I wanted that date.  YES!  So – there you have it.  I now have my surgery date and can put it on the calendar!  I’ll have my pre surgery class to go over everything on Jan 21st.  I suppose that will be the beginning of my two week liquid diet.

I have a lady at work that had the surgery 2 years ago and has lost 130 lbs.  She started about where I am starting.  Today she offered to do the two week liquid diet with me for support.  I thought that was REALLY nice of her!  She said it’s easier to have someone doing it with you and encouraging you.  She also gave me lots of good advice and encouraging words.  I’m blessed to have several people to go to that have gone through this for questions and support.

It’s also good that I’ll have Christmas and New Years without worrying about this all.  Plus I will need the time to work on things with work and get them caught up from year end before taking off a couple of weeks.  I’m hoping to go to my Grandma Joan’s for Christmas Eve, my Aunt Nancy’s for Christmas breakfast and my friend, Dawn’s, for New Years.

Well – that’s my update for now!! 😀  Thanks for checking in with me!!