Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Psych!

Today was my psychological evaluation.  I had some butterflies beforehand, but enjoyed it more than I'd imagined!  My dumb ass forgot all the paperwork I had filled out in advance, so I had to do it all over again  Oh well, good thing I was early.

Once I got back with the doctor, she set me up on a computer to answer about 170 true or false questions.  I love filling shit out, so I was all over this!  Some of the questions were interesting, all were only a sentence long, and some were thrown in to make sure you were paying attention.  I answered truthfully and for the most part, swiftly, however, there were a few that I had to think hard about which way I leaned more on the answer.

Once I was done with the computer test, there were a couple other tests that asked me how I had been feeling for the last one or two weeks, respectively.

After I completed all of the testing, which took approximately 20-30 minutes, I met with the doctor in her office.  She asked me a bunch of questions.  We talked about why I chose the vertical sleeve gastrectomy over gastric bypass.  She asked me about my support system, about what changes I was making in advance of the surgery and checked my understanding of the life changes that will occur after surgery.

So that was that.  Not as intimidating as I thought!

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