I am a complete and utter blogging failure!  It’s true!  I have had all sorts of good intentions about updating this blog over the last little while but I just have not been able to find the time to do so.  If you know me (as some of you readers do)….You know that life has had it’s fair share of bumps, hurdles, and blunders over the last little while all of which have prevented me from having even a spare moment of time to sit down and spit out updates and information in my blog.  The good new is…..I am BACK with an update at last and we can all return now to our regularly scheduled programming here.

The last blog entry I had spoken about the super cool oh my god I don’t have sleep apnea results I received and in that post I mentioned I had some surprisingly good news to share but failed to come back to share it!  The short of the already short story is that the sleep study specialist I saw was also one of the psychiatrists for the Bariatric Program and Ta-Da! he did my psych assessment on the same day as my sleep study results……thereby saving me nearly a month in the process of waiting for surgery!  The psych assessment was easy breezy and only took about a half hour…the only complicated part of it was that I had my daughter (aged 2 going on 14) with me during the assessment and she was totally enamored with all the little tidbits and knick knacks within the office so I was a little distracted throughout the entire thing!

Bottom line from the appointment you ask?

There are no psychiatric issues currently present in my life that will prevent me from being approved for surgery….Win! I got out of there as fast as I could before he could change his mind! All I had left to do at that point with meet with the Dietician and then bingo bango they would let me know if I would be approved for surgery! Ah how simple it all seems to type it out like that when what has happened since they has not been so simple at all!

Not too long after I had my appointment with the sleep specialist/psychiatrist I met with the Dietician and I have to say (and believe me I have a lot of experiences with dieticians to compare)….that the Dietician Katie who I met with for my nutrition assessment has to be one of the most awesome people I have met who work in this field!  For once in my life it was so easy to talk to her without feeling like she had eyes of judgement upon me….it felt like she actually frickin cared about what I was saying and showed some compassion for the fact that hello this damn weight loss journey has sucked, totally sucked.  I am happy I will get to work with her during the five years of follow-up with the program – I feel like we’re a good a match.  At that appointment we had a discussion about my preference of hospital for surgery and she made note of it in my file and said it shouldn’t be a problem since I was willing to be patient and wait for the opportunity to be at the main hospital in the program (which is closer to my house) -  we spent about 40 minutes talking about my understanding of the surgery and the different stages of eating post-op and also the vitamin regimen that I would have to take for the rest of my life….in the end she felt there wouldn’t be a reason why I would be NOT approved for the surgery!  Awesomeness! I was feeling pretty fantastic when I left there!  It was like being on cloud nine…I didn’t have a care in the world and felt like nothing could knock me down but boy oh boy did that change pretty dramatically!

I plan to talk about some of the hurdles I’ve faced since that appointment in a another blog post because I believe they just warrant their own attention so stay tuned for another update…and real soon I promise!