Psych evaluation and all requirements are complete!

May 16, 2010

YAY! Still doesn't feel real yet. I have completed each and every single requirement my insurance and surgeon has requested. A long 7 months! But it's done now onto the next step......

Had my psych evaluation today. Not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I just think the word psych can scare the crap out of a person. I got there and it was hot as all can be in the office. Houston heat is in full effect. It's been in the 90's and humid as all can be. It's going to be another long summer. Anyways this lady brings a stack of papers I had to fill out and the doctor would see me in about 45 minutes. I started filling out the paperwork. A lot of it was silliness if you ask me. Why they asked some of them things to a person getting gastric bypass is beyond me but whatever. When I got to the portion that said.....do you feel like you have secret powers that no one else does? I tried so hard not to bust out laughing in the room. Really? Come on now. I mean I know people do think like that and feel that sometimes but wow. Then do you think people are following you or spying on your every move? 80% of the questions didn't pertain to me at all. I am not a boozer, I don't do drugs, I don't feel like dying every second of the day so I breezed thru it. Then the doctor came in and grabbed my paperwork checked it over quick and told me to come into his office.

Was a very brief meeting. I was expecting this long drawn out appointment asking me to start from birth. But his main questions were do I know what I am getting into? Why am I having the surgery? Why do I think the surgery will help me? What things will I need to do after surgery to help me lose weight? Things like that. I was very honest with him and told him I have been considering this surgery for almost 8 years but always kept chickening out or being in denial until my son came along and he changed everything. Like I have told everyone in my life and him, me and food are going to be best friends thru out my entire life, whether I do this surgery or not we will be dealing with each other. So at this point I have nothing to lose but to try something else to help me achieve this. We only talked for maybe 10 minutes if that. He was really impressed with how much I knew and how well prepared I am for this. He said he will write me a "favorable" letter for the surgery as long as my medical clearance is ok I can have surgery.

So that is it. Everything is complete on my end. Now to wait until my surgeon's office receives everything. I so want to call and see what's the latest but I am forcing myself to wait until Thursday to call to see if they are still waiting on any results or where do we go from here or when do they think we will be submitting. I am very proud of myself for sticking this journey out. I almost gave up thinking it was going to take forever, I wouldn't be able to afford this or that or that I wouldn't get approved. But for once I finally told myself to shut up and go for it. It was time to take care of me for once and do something for myself instead of doing for others all the time and doing everything else but for me. So now hopefully the last leg of this journey goes smoothly! We just have to submit to insurance and once insurance approves I can set a surgery date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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