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great news :D I enjoyed my psyche assessment, was like free counselling!
 
Got to admit im feeling very well looked after by the team at salford. what with 24hr urine collection, blood tests, psycologist, dietitian, endocrainologist and surgeon i think i will of been right through the hospital by the time i have my op.
HC
 
Glad you are being looked after so well, you must be excited to get a step closer x
 
oohhh, exciting - another step closer HC, tha's great news !
 
Well had my appointment with the psycologist today and what a lovely woman she was. After asking me to run through my life events and having a blub when i got upto loosing my mum 10 yrs ago. But then laughing at other events she asked how i felt about me as a person! My responce to her was i like myself and hope that other people do too but if they dont thats their problem as i know by the friends that i have and the respect i receive in my work that plenty of people do like me as i am.
I have always aspired to be like my mum she was so accepting of people and liked and respected by many.
She then went on to ask me about my understanding of what problems if any i could expect from having surgery. After going through the variouse things she said that she wished all her patients had reserched as much as i had befor seeing her.
As i said she really was lovely and whilst i was still there she got the secretary to email the surgeon to say she recomended me for surgery and has asked me if after the surgery if i would go back and see her to see if it has lived upto my expetations for her and the teams future development.
I have come away feeling soooooooooooooo positive not that i wasnt befor but im just oh i dont know how to describe it but its a nice feeling.
HC
 
Great news HC, sounds really productive :D
 
hopelesscase said:
Well had my appointment with the psycologist today and what a lovely woman she was. After asking me to run through my life events and having a blub when i got upto loosing my mum 10 yrs ago. But then laughing at other events she asked how i felt about me as a person! My responce to her was i like myself and hope that other people do too but if they dont thats their problem as i know by the friends that i have and the respect i receive in my work that plenty of people do like me as i am.
I have always aspired to be like my mum she was so accepting of people and liked and respected by many.
She then went on to ask me about my understanding of what problems if any i could expect from having surgery. After going through the variouse things she said that she wished all her patients had reserched as much as i had befor seeing her.
As i said she really was lovely and whilst i was still there she got the secretary to email the surgeon to say she recomended me for surgery and has asked me if after the surgery if i would go back and see her to see if it has lived upto my expetations for her and the teams future development.
I have come away feeling soooooooooooooo positive not that i wasnt befor but im just oh i dont know how to describe it but its a nice feeling.
HC
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Hi HC

That is so wonderful to hear!
Its so therapeutic to speak the words or even write them down. My change was when i began to admit that my problems were my weight and looked but to what made me so angry about it and how things had always been about weight, eating and getting through another day.
I've been so possitive since booked my gastric band that I have gone down from 40mg of prozac a day to 20mg. I have to stay on that dose for a month and then I can cut to to one every other day. It will be nice to come off of them (if only to get my lebido back! lol).

I just can't wait to start now, 5 weeks to go! Good luck with everything Hun, it wont be long now! I'm very excited for you! Look forward to sharing journeys!

Love

Ginaxxxx
 
Thanks gina. Ive never suffered from depression so cant even begin to imagine how it feels for you.
Its not so much the size element im doing this for as the health aspects as my bloodpressure is just tsarting to become a problem but now that i have started this journey the thought of being smaller is very exciting. I wish i was where you are in relation to time scales but its taken me 45yr to get where i am so a few more months isnt going to do me any harm.
HC
 
hopelesscase said:
Thanks gina. Ive never suffered from depression so cant even begin to imagine how it feels for you.
Its not so much the size element im doing this for as the health aspects as my bloodpressure is just tsarting to become a problem but now that i have started this journey the thought of being smaller is very exciting. I wish i was where you are in relation to time scales but its taken me 45yr to get where i am so a few more months isnt going to do me any harm.
HC
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Hi HC!

yes I'm with you on the health. To be honest, it was being told that my Cholesterol was very high. It paniced me! I'm 28 and knew I shouldn't be suffering with high cholesterol at my age. My mum's side of the family all suffer with diabetis, my nan did and her 4 younger sisters all suffer with it. My mum doesn't have it, but she isn't as grossly overweight as I am and I know this is a timebomb waiting to go off. I saw what diabetis did to my Nan and she was the most strict diabetic I have ever met. The last straw was in July this year. I had a terrible headache one day, it was one of those that wouldn't go away no matter how many paracetamol or ibuprofen I took. I went to bed early and woke up thinking it had almost gone, but then I sat up! Bang the pain hit me so serverly that I cried out. I ended up in hospital and was diagnosed with Benine Intacranial Hypertention which is basically high pressure of the spinal fluid putting pressure on the brain. When asked why I had it I was told it is very common in young, obease women and was advised to lose weight! Story of my life but that pain frightened me, i don't want that again and seeing I was at my lifes heaviest at that point I went on a soup diet straight away and lost 11lb as I was so scared of it coming back!

I know I'm doing the right thing and I'm listening to my body. It's telling me to do something or else! It's giving me the warning signs. These things don't just happen to older people, they happen to anyone and it woke me up to that!
I can't wait to be fit & healthy. Facing your demons isn't easy be any means, but I'm ready to have it all out with them now!xxxx
 
Hi Carole not seen you posting as much lately. hope things at home have settled down a bit more for you.

Glad you are well on your way to having your surgery and alll the tests you have needed have been done. keep me posted on how things go xx
 
thanks everyone i was telling my sister today theat the psycologist had said that she had worked in CAMHS and had also covered children with disabilities and that she honestly belives that i do one of the most challenging jobs to be done so having a bypass will just be a minor challenge to me. Lol
Think i will have to see my boss for a pay rise.!!!
 
Just had a phonecall to say my appointment with Mr Amorie is next wed 16th. They will confirm the time in the post. I should be excited about this but at the moment feeling a little peed off.:(
But what the hell ive got my appointment
 
Getting your appointment is a huge step HC, focus on that.
 
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