In Addition To My Last Blog

It seems that I don't have to put my dreams of "going" to college on the back burner after all. My Pell Grant and Stafford Loans came through for me. I have enough to go to the summer session, plus get the computer I need to keep up with the classes. I received my books yesterday. I've already cracked one open and started reading it. I want to familiarize myself with them before I really have to study them. Besides it's a small book. I'm so buzzed! I start the eleventh of this month. I can hardly wait!
What may have to go on the back burner is my dream of the gastric bypass. I know I still have close to a hundred pounds to lose before I can have it but it just got tougher for me. I have had indications that my psych eval did not go well. I get the official results Monday the 6th but when Dr. Bray's office made the appt. they were very adamant that I see my therapist directly after. I guess they are afraid that I might do something drastic. I'm not giving up. I can always take the test again. It doesn't mean that I will stay unfit for the surgery always, it just means that right now, I have more issues I have to work on before I can have the surgery. I figure by the time I lose the hundred pounds I can retake the test, pass it, and have the surgery. Otherwise, Springfield has a gastric bypass unit that takes Medicaid and Medicare. I've already invested over five years of my life to this, I can invest a few more. I'm going to survive obesity. I'm not going to let it beat me.
Well, that is what is happening to me right now. I'm going to a Christian Women's Retreat in Branson this weekend. It should be a lot of fun and spiritually uplifting and should get me closer to God and my fellow Christian women. I'm looking forward to it, except I have to leave Spike at home with Tina. I'm going to miss him so much! If I could pack him in a suitcase I would. But, alas! they would frown at a hairy suitcase with legs at the hotel.
Well, I'll let you get back to what you were doing. Take care. Be safe. Have a blessed night and an even more blessed tomorrow.
May God Bless You.
Melissa