 Good morning, my friends! Got my work screens up, but I just clocked out. Anyway, it is Monday. I did not film anything yesterday. Had kind of a lucky day. Um, here's Doyle, he's very excited, and um, yeah, I just didn't feel like filming. I didn't have anything good or positive to say. I got a migraine yesterday, so that really sucked. And was not able to go and hang out with Jodie and Ryan, so I was just a little bummed out, you know what I mean? So anyway, I am working from home today because I have a doctor's appointment in about 15 minutes, and I gotta go do that. Um, we are going to discuss some things, and I will let you know what those things are after we discuss them because there might be some other things that pop up too, and I want to like remember, you know what I mean? Okay, so, oh, I gotta clean out my purse. All right, well, I will see you guys in a little bit, and um, keep you updated as to what's going on. Hello, I am back! Okay, so I just had my doctor's appointment, going back upstairs now to work. Um, okay, so here's the deal. So, whoa, my lotion fell out of my pocket. I'll get it in a minute. Anyways, um, okay, so here's the deal. I went to the doctor today because I needed to make sure that he would be an advocate for me for this, um, surgery situation. Damn it! I was literally gone for 40 minutes, and the dog took a shit. Oh my gosh! Doyle! You're the worst! Okay, I don't want to show you guys, but okay, I'll be back. I need to clean this up. I'll be right back. Okay, poop is cleaned up. Um, so yeah, what was I saying? Okay, so my primary doctor and also the surgeon that would have been doing my headlhearnia surgery are both 100% behind me. They want me to have the bariatric surgery if nothing else works. I do have a couple more prescriptions to pick up in a little bit. They're not ready yet, so I figured I would go home and work for the rest of the day and then go pick them up in a little bit, like later on in the day. So we're gonna try that. However, this is a long process, but I need to contact my insurance company today to get a, like, reference number or something, I think is what he said. Yeah, a specific reference number to direct our appeal of the bariatric surgery denial. The denial comes from my insurance just doesn't cover it because they see it as cosmetic. However, my insurance company does cover it under other insurance plans, so I just need to call and see if I can get a number to reference so they can put something in and then it takes like a couple of weeks and sometimes even up to a month for them to respond. At that point, my doctor and then one of their doctors, like the insurance company's doctors, they do like a peer-to-peer kind of a thing and then they look at all my medical records, they look at all my tests, everything I've done so far, and then they determine if it is medically necessary. So anyways, it is medically necessary, but in the meantime I'm gonna be, you know, taking a bunch of different medications and seeing if anything else helps, but I do want to just get the ball rolling on this since it does take so long and I feel like garbage all the time. So I'm gonna work for a little while. I'm gonna call the insurance company after that and chat with them and just get the ball rolling. I also need to contact this place that I already filled out my information, but I need to call them. It's the medical weight management. I guess they work with the people that like do the surgery as well, so I can do that. My insurance actually covers that but they don't cover the surgery, so I seem to call and see if I can get my appointment scheduled for like my first visit or whatever. So anyway, lots of medical things today, lots of medical things, but yeah, all right, well I'm gonna say goodbye here because I need to clock in and start working again and I will chat with you guys in a little bit. Bye guys! Well hey, I am taking just a little five minute break and figured I would give you guys an update. So I did actually get some information while I was working because you know, it's easy to throw someone on speakerphone and do my work at the same time, but I talked with my insurance provider and good news is, is that they do cover gastric bypass surgery only if my provider like appeals it basically. I guess there are insurance companies out there that don't do it at all no matter what, even if it's medically necessary to fix a problem or whatever. So that's a good thing. Secondly, I was able to shoot my doctor a quick email and just let him know what he has to do, so basically I'm reading this now. They need to do a pre-certification slash slash authorization so that gets sent to the insurance company and they either approve or deny. If they deny, then an appeal starts. So then they submit an appeal letter, I'm looking at all my notes, then they submit an appeal letter and then at that point they do a peer-to-peer consult so my doctor, like my primary doctor and surgeon will then talk to one of the doctors at the insurance company and explain why it's medically necessary and all the things that I have done to try to fix the problem and it's not working. So anyways, that process can take like up to a month to get this all done and possibly approved, hopefully fingers crossed. So I'm just glad that I'm doing everything I can. I've got new medications that are now ready for pickup because Walgreens just texted me saying that they're ready. So yeah, I might, I don't know, I'm thinking about possibly clocking out and just going over there and picking it up, you know? I don't know. I don't know, I haven't fully decided yet, but it's about lunchtime, so I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I could go to Walgreens anytime, but yeah, but the dog is over there somewhere. Can you see him? I don't know if you can see him. He's creeping. He's creeping, but yeah, maybe I'll just take him out on a quick little pee-pee walk since he pooped in the house when I was gone. He clearly doesn't need to poop. That's it for the moment and I just wanted to say hello and I will check in with you guys in just a little while. Bye, guys. It's official. I'm done working. It's like five o'clock. I had a few last-minute orders I needed to take care of, so thankfully I was still online to do that because if not, I don't know, they have, there's, there's problems if, if it doesn't happen right away, so it doesn't mean I need to do them. I just need to like do part of them. Does that make sense? Anywhere. So, um, yeah, that's, that's what's going on here. I think I'm actually gonna call my brother in a little bit since I haven't really, I don't know, like, talked to him in a while and it's clearly been a while, so to kind of like update him on some medical crap and whatnot, so I think I'm gonna do that here in just a little bit. Doyle is being a Doyle dog. Yeah, he's just sitting in his spot, guys. He's sitting in his spot, so anyway, I am going to go. So I'm going to just go for the night. I don't have anything else exciting planned and um, yeah, that's it. Oh, I gotta tell you, um, I was able to my, one of my doctors, well not, not my doctor, but a new clinic that I was referred to actually gave me a call and I have those appointments now on the books, so that is definitely a good thing. One will be happening this year and then one will be happening next year and it's just kind of get the ball rolling. It's like a nutrition kind of a thing, so anyway, I'm glad I got those on the books and kind of taken care of for right now, so I'll learn more about what the appointments entail when I get, like, the person who's gonna send me out some stuff in the mail, so I'll learn more about that and then obviously like what to bring with me, you know, for like consultation visits and stuff like that. So anyways, I'm gonna go. Today's been a better day and um, I will see y'all in the next video. Bye guys! Well folks, it's time to kick it old school!