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Update from Psych Consult & Group Nutrition
Apr 29, 2014
Well, I must say that the Psych consult went much differently than I expected. Everyone who goes through Baptist here in Winston-Salem, must see Jeff Smith for your Psych Evaluation. Jeff has been working with bariatric patients for nearly all of his career and delves much deeper than I was expecting. I went in thinking that it would be a conversation about how I cope with stress and disappointing situations and what kind of support system I have in place. WRONG! I like most people have had some pretty crappy things happen in my life. I like to think I have moved past the majority of it and am at least a somewhat functional human being with a decent level of mental health. I was totally unprepared to go in and talk about my parents divorce when I was 7 or bad crap that happened in High School. That being said I went through a range of emotions in that session that I was not prepared for. So for those of you who may be going through Baptist, beware that you will need to prepare yourself to discuss things that you may not really want to. Everything ended fine. He has cleared me for surgery so that is good. That was my Saturday.
This Monday I had my first nutritional class and an Upper GI. The Nutritional class was good. In a group things can get a little out of control at times, but I was impressed that the nutritionist basically recommended a Paleo type lifestyle. I have to leave the class a little early to make it to my upper GI appointment. In the Nutrition class I learned that I will have 3 appointments in one day about 3 weeks from now (2 exercise physiologists appointments and 1 one on one nutrition appointment) after those have been completed they will submit everything to insurance. I will have to keep a food diary for the next 3 weeks to take back to that appointment.
The Upper GI was interesting. I can't explain why, but I was really nervous about it. It wasn't the greatest thing I ever done but not the worst either. They said everything looked good and that I have a slight hiatial hernia.
That's all for now!
Blessings everyone!
