ONE WEEK!

This time next week my surgery will be OVER! I will probably be laying in the hospital bed feeling really good (some from relief but mainly from the meds I'll be on). Of course I am counting on the hardest part of the whole process being the recovery, so I really won't be out of the woods for awhile after the actual procedure is over, but it would be nice to at least get that part over with. I wonder how soon I will be able to get an idea of how the finished result will look...probably a few weeks. It's hard to imagine a time when I won't have all of this stuff hanging over me but I bet it will go pretty quickly from here.

The fact that I've been able to focus a lot of stress on the house situation has really helped keep me from freaking out too much about the surgery. We are supposed to close on the house tomorrow but the loan company needs Adam's employer to submit the employment verification form before they can finalize the loan paperwork. I hope his company realizes how important it is for them to fill that out quickly...I try to remind myself that I should let it go and not worry about it, but there is a really short time frame for us to close, move and be situated before my surgery so I have this knot in my stomach that won't go away. During my sister's wedding it loosened up quite a bit while we dancing to Ice Ice Baby and the YMCA, but only to tighten back up once I was back at work Monday. Hopefully by this time tomorrow, I will have a better picture on what is going to happen with the house so I can stop thinking about it.

I do have to say that as much as I stressed about Shelly's wedding going perfectly, it really did in the end I think. It was a lot of hard work, but I had a lot of fun at the reception dancing and mingling, and of course eating delicious wedding cake. It's a good thing I didn't do the surgery right before her wedding or I wouldn't have enjoyed myself half as much.

I have all of my final pre surgery appointments Thursday: Ortho at 9:30, then the surgeon at 11 and finally the hospital at 12:30. The ortho is putting on my surgical hooks, which should be a fun experience (sarcastic) and then the surgeon is going to go over all of the instructions for before and after the surgery, and do a physical...The hospital is just doing some routine bloodwork. I got to go back to the surgeon today because the upper impressions they did were a little messed up so they needed better ones. For some reason it has been hurting really badly when they are pulling the mold out, and I think it's from when Franklin actually knocked my teeth together =(.

So I think I'm in the home stretch! Just a little more to go...