Albert L. Perkins Psychologist PSC

I felt that he pressured people into joining the support group at the office for a $5.00 charge. I was not happy abou that.

he called a person he knows who has had wls a "surgery survivor". that bothered me. he was a very nice and concerned person. he wants you to know that this surgery is not to be taken lightly and how important it is to get involved with groups or individuals who have been through it. i would say that he would be an excellent person to talk to about any issues you might have.

I'm scheduled to see Dr Perkins on Nov 18th @ 2PM. I'll post update then....

Nov 29, 02 .....My psych eval was a little strange. I thought I was seeing a psychologist and I saw a social worker. Hello I'm a social worker, so I'm being psycho analized by someone w/ the same qualifications as I was. Anyway, Mr Perkins was very nice. My first impression of him was that he was very negative about WLS. He first asked me why I left the need to have this life endangering surgery. I informed him that I don't see it as life endangering anymore than I see my life now as life endangering being shit obese and unhealthy. Well those must have been the magic words that he wants to hear because from that point he was more positive about the surgery. However he wants to see me 6 weeks after the surgery to make sure that my mental state is good and that I'm not having an issues. He wanted me to attend a weekly support group meeting at his office. I told him I can't go weekly but that I would attend a few of them. They meet the same night as my daughters girl scout troop and I can't be 2 places at the same time when those 2 places are 30 minutes away from each other. He also wanted me to attend weekly meetings for overeaters annonymous. Which I'm not going to do. I don't have time to make 2 weekly meeting in the evening and get my kids were they need to be also. My husband works 5 nights a week and if off only 1 night during the week and on Sundays. So I'm the one running the kids everywhere. Just can't do all those meetings. I did enjoy my first support group meeting that his office has. I met about a dz people. Everyone was so friendly and supportive. I will be going back to them, I just doubt I'll make them weekly. Overall, he wants bad.

Today I went for my psych evaluation and it went very well, no big surprises, other than the fact that it went so smoothly. Doc said he would fax the result, which I saw and signed, to the surgeon tomorrow. Looks like I am more normal than I imagined. Progressing right along here. oh yeah, he wanted to make an appointment for me to come back in after the surgery, wow. I don't even know what day I am scheduled for and here we are looking at life afterward..........This is a really positive outlook for me