one more step on the journey

well I passed my psych test today... one more step behind me on the journey. now its just lose weight before my preop in july and sept.

Hiya Joe Things start rolling fast huh? I did my nutrition class saturday and will have my psyc eval on Thursday... Then my appt on the 22 nd... What is your next step? pre op you say?? Do you already have your date??? Hope all is well Michelle

GO, Joe! You are rolling right along! You can do it! I know it can really get you down! I went to Psyc eval last week and had to do the ink blot test. I felt like saying okay I am FAT not crazy! You will do great! Cherry

actually my psych was not bad, long but not bad. took the mmpi for about an hour and a half, then he had two more tests for me to take, well not tests just sort of answering questions about depressoins and so on. then we had a very short interview and he said ok you pass, and that was it. I do thnk that taking the tests did make me think long and hard about where I am in life in general. Questions like are you happy always make me pause and consider if I am or not. I live very contentedly , I am financially better off now than any time in my life , even considering what I am about to pay for two years schooling in New York for my only child. But happy? I am not sure I can say that I am entirely happy with my life. I suppose if the lottery fairy dropped into my life tomorrow I would make some drastic changes to what I do every day and every year. As I approach my grand 50th birthday I have become more maudlin and make attempts to reoconnect with my youth, searching out high scholl friends etc. trying to recapture the dreams of youth which seem so long ago now. Somehow I think that I have let life slip up on me and tie me down and I have stagnated for at least the past 20 years. And thats sad I think.

You know, Joe, questions like are you happy are loaded. There's so many meanings to the word happy. There are a lot of things to be happy, or not, about. Many of the questions on those tests made me stop and say hmmmm. I consider myself to be an optomist, but the psychologist told me the tests revealed i'm unable to admit my faults lol. whateva!! Ok i'm rambling now lol. Congrats on passing! Another step taken in your path to thinville. God bless! Melanie

Way to go Joe,the time will go by before you know it. This is a long journey,which i hae found out,just today i finnaly found a DR. to do the lap band for me didn't think i was gona get to this point it looked like i was doomed........ and then out of the blue i called TENNCARE today and bamb!! i found a dr.God is watching over all of us you know and is answering our prayers when we less except it take care Eva

LOL Joe...everyone at work said to me, "you passed.....you didn't tell him where you worked did you?" LOL Well I'm glad that you have gotten one more step farther.