OT: Only minor revisions needed to my dissertation!

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 7/5/13 10:47 am, edited 7/5/13 10:48 am - OH

I cannot even begin to tell you how happy I was to get this news today! That means that all I have to do is make the minor revisions (most of them are just structural/organizational, rather than content related) and complete the defense (which I am not particularly stressed about -- just the normal anxiety that I think anyone would feel when faced with four faculty members asking questions about the research, conclusions, and clinical treatment "theory" that they have spent more than a year on.

After that, I will officially be Dr. Lora!

I will be SO glad to be done with this. It has been a long, stressful road. Of course, the student loans will live on until I am on Social Security (or whatever is left of SS)...

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

poet_kelly
on 7/5/13 10:50 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Yay! Good job.

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

mocuevas
on 7/5/13 11:04 am - TX

Congratulations, that is QUITE an accomplishment! It shows how much hard work you've put into it! You should feel very proud!

Smiles, Mo

HW: 311 SW: 270 CW: 192

illinois Gama D.
on 7/5/13 11:28 am

RNY on 04/15/03

I can only imagine how very proud your mom is!!! we are all so happy for you but she has to be jumping with joy for you, early congrats :) Denise

Rny 2003

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Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 7/5/13 11:44 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

Ironically (and somewhat sadly), her enthusiasm is limited. She was raised believing that you shouldn't talk about family problems outside the house and that -- basically -- needing a counselor in most cases (she {sarcasm on} graciously {sarcasm off} makes exceptions for things like rape, war trauma, unexpected loss of a spouse or child) is a mark of weakness. She won't SAY it that way, of course, but that is what she means. She is also very opposed to anti-depressant medications outside of short-term for the above mentioned traumas.

So, even when I got my Master's degree in Counseling, she wasn't very enthusiastic. Proud? I'm honestly not sure. Probably. She would never TELL me that, though. When I got accepted to grad school at Vanderbilt (with a full tuition waiver and a stipend for teaching intro Latin classes), she never said a word about it to me but apparently all of her closest friends knew exactly where I was going to school, so she must have been proud of it to mention it to them. Families... sometimes a big challenge. Sigh...

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.