Today is the day I’m supposed to have someone from the finance and insurance department contact me. Apparently, it doesn’t matter if I am not approved by the date of the surgery (it normally takes 45 days). As long as I’ve applied, I’m okay. However, if I don’t apply or if they give me a quick disapproval, the surgery is taken off schedule and they won’t do it until if and when it again becomes an emergency. Right now it’s not considered an emergency because I came home!
In the meantime, I have absolutely no energy. I am sleeping most of the day and night. I feel like I am in someone else’s world, not mine.
Oh, and those of you that remember my mentioning that I was going to start volunteering in my grandson’s classrooom, well that never happened because they gave my slot to someone else and now I am supposed to go on Wednesdays but I don’t see it happening this week. Next week I will be prepping for the Thursday surgery and it is a long day long process so I won’t be able to do it then. And recuperation should be about 6 weeks. By then, his school year will be over! Maybe they’ll let me just come in and read a story to them each week or something.
Anyway, thank you all for the continued thoughts and for caring what happens to me. I’ll keep y’all posted.
Wasted Days And Wasted Nights 
Keeping my fingers crossed for you…
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Oh, good grief…I certainly hope you get the approval quickly. It would be all kinds of awful if they weren’t able to follow through with the surgery.
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Please keep us posted. We do care. Of course you are sleepy as you are unwell. Hopefully after surgery you can begin to build your self up again. Until then do as your body tells you as much as possible.x
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Glad to hear it’s not an emergency, Corina. That means there’s already been some improvement. Wishing you steady improvement until this story is over. I admire your desire to volunteer even when you’re not feeling that well. Reading the children stories, though, does sound like a good experience. Wishing you all the best,
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Your body needs the rest. Lord knows you can’t rest in a hospital setting. I hope you have someone to help you with meals and such while you are getting better! Like everyone else, I’ll be checking for posts from you. It will be a nail biter for us all until you are able to update us after surgery. XO
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Take care of yourself! At least you’ll have a good excuse for just lounging around and being on the computer while you re-cooperate.
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Take care Corina- good to sleep and rest your body, I hope the approval comes through and you can move on with this. Hugs to you
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Rest, take care of yourself, and try not to worry too much. I know. That’s difficult to do. I started giving myself permission to worry about things that might require a little worrying for five minutes. Then I stop. If it comes up again in my head, and I start worrying again, I tell myself, “You already worried about that!” Oddly enough, it helps. So does planning, if there are things I can do to plan for it (like having help after surgery).
I hope they have approved your health coverage right away. It’s barbaric that they would take you off the surgery schedule. Healing and help should come first. They can worry about payment later.
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No answers yet. It’s very frustrating. I’m not sure if they took me off the schedule or not and it’s such a huge bureaucracy that no two people will give me the same answer. In the meantime I’ve now developed a pain in the area of the right ovary where the cyst is. My guess is that they hustled things around so much that it’s now going to act up.
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I’m sorry you’re going through this ordeal. I’m hoping for the best. I don’t want to get political, but people like you are one big reason I’m in favor of universal insurance, and good insurance at that.
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Thank you, Trent. I haven’t mentioned healthcare previously because I don’t get political either, but as it has a direct effect on what is happening and why it is happening, I felt it was important. Thanks!
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So sorry to hear. Hope the approval comes quickly. Sending healing thoughts…
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