You're best off just waiting. I can assure you that it won't be forgotten about and it'll stay in the pool until an admin can take a proper look at it. As droge said, there's no timeframe with unban appeals so for your own sake expect at least a week before it's finalised.
Just so you know there's nothing wrong with asking for advice and I think people weren't as helpful as they could have been because SO many people come to the forums complaining that they havent been unbanned an hour after posting their appeal and it gets quite annoying