Please Keep Trying!

It’s been about three weeks since I updated, mostly due to bad pain from my lousy hip issues. It’s hard to type when you can’t sit or concentrate. I’m so out of alignment because of my wiggly marionette-style ligaments, any physical therapy I do without a brace causes nothing but grief. Lots and lots of stabby, burning grief. But through it all, I stayed focused on my goals: get stronger and get rid of the skin. After much pain, headaches and general bullshizer, I’ve finally made an appointment with a plastic surgeon about getting rid of all the excess skin, and that happens today at 3:00.

Although I have a slim shot at getting the insurance to cover the operation, I still have three doctors willing to advocate that it’s medically necessary, which in fact, it is. My knee doctor, who basically gave up on my knee therapy when he heard about my impingement, nonetheless agreed to advocate for me that I needed the operation to lessen the impact on my arthritis.

My physical therapist, a doc in her own right, also tells me she’ll advocate since it really, really gets in the way of PT- literally. Whenever she tries to tape me for therapy, it’s always a struggle to get around the “loose tissue” as she calls it. Hey, it’s flabby skin, but I like her PC verbage better. The flub also causes trouble when I need to do ab work. It just hangs there and can’t be moved.

I was informed by my therapist the doctor who diagnosed the funness of the hips will also undoubtedly advocated for me.

That’s three medical professionals who say they’ll step up to the plate and bat for me. It may be a long shot, but it isn’t impossible. I understand, however, the process may take up to a year to finish. It involves submitting the claim, getting certified, having the docs all write letters, submitting the letters and trying to prove the medical necessity of the operation. I’ll also be submitting testimonials from other professionals I’ve come in contact with about this and testimonials from my friends and family. That could definitely take a year.

But everyone journey starts with a step, yadda yadda, so forth and so on, so technically speaking, my journey towards a less flappy me starts today. This is something I’ll try and keep updated on the site as I know many people who lose weight also want to see how this little trip fares. It may get rough though, and I foresee many tears, curses and rallying cries in my future.