Not the surgery I wanted
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, 11-22-2015 at 06:08 AM (1800 Views)
I went for my cardiac clearance last month and found out that I need to have open heart surgery for a genetic heart condition called hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy before I can have my weight loss surgery. My heart surgery is scheduled for December 17 and the middle of December was when I was planning to have my sleeve surgery.
I've been going through the insurance process of medically supervised nutritional counseling since March 2015. Now the earliest I will be able to have my sleeve surgery will be April 2016. I'm worried about having the two major surgeries so close together, but my insurance will change in June 2016 and the new insurance excludes bariatric surgery.
I felt so depressed about the heart surgery and this delay in getting my sleeve done that I could not visit this site since the first week of October. I was so close and so ready and now I worry that I will lose my will to have the sleeve done. Maybe once I am two months out from the heart surgery I can focus on the sleeve surgery again. I have lost fifty pounds since May and that is what keeps me going. If I was still stuck in that 281 lb body I would be so miserable because I had gotten to the point where I couldn't stand being trapped in it anymore. Going from 281 to 233 makes a big difference and I was on such a roll to keep it going.
I am wondering if anyone else had a setback like this or if anyone has an experience with having two major surgeries in four months. I'd also appreciate any support or words of encouragement you could give. Thanks, Cindy.