Son approved for SSI!! YAY!!!

x-posted to Main Messageboard After five months of waiting and a new psych evaluation, my 19-year-old autistic/MR son has finally been approved to resume his SSI payments as an adult. (We received SSI for him as a child, but had to stop when my income went up.) I am SO thrilled!! Having his money to help out in our household expenses will be a huge help, to say nothing of being able to do more fun things with him rather than say "No, I'm sorry honey, but we can't afford that this month." What does this have to do with my WLS? Stress relief for one, and since stress contributes heavily to my eating patterns, this is a good thing. Not just in the short-term, either. Now I can relax just that little bit more knowing that if something ever happened to me, he'd already be "in the system" and have some kind of financial support (small as it is) right away. Now, to find a way to celebrate that doesn't involve a big food feast (our traditional way to celebrate ANYTHING...)