[Maria]

Jim,
Sorry this happened to you especially when you are told to stop your Nsaids or meds two weeks prior to surgery and made arrangements re work for time off and your wife was well plus arrangements for care.

In the "olden" days or back when I was having surgery particularly I guess because it was WC authorizing, scheduling wasn't done until the authorization had been obtained and then that was good only for a certain amount of time (which I cannot recall now). To me that seems like the safest bet re scheduling especially in terms of all that the patient has to go through with personal arrangements.

I do hope you will get the authorization (every aspect of it that is) and surgery will be scheduled and performed in a timely manner. Sorry you had to go thru this emotional upheaval and any upheaval of your schedule and your family's.

Do take care~ Maria