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...

Just waiting...

Well there is nothing new really regarding my surgery, but I figured I'd go ahead and write about what I have coming up...First of all, besides just dealing with the stress of having the surgery (preparing to leave work for a few weeks, planning my post surgery diet, etc) we are in the process of buying our first home. It's not the same house I talked about in the last post...we lost that one because they went with the other buyers (although my realtor said the deal later fell through and the seller's realtor came crawling back to see if we were still interested). However, the house that we have a contract on is one I found shortly after losing out on the other one...it's a foreclosure so we are getting it at an AMAZING price and it only had one owner and he took really good care of the house. I am trying to remind myself that something could still go wrong, mainly because we were pre approved but we still have to get the loan actually approved now...if the loan is approved, then I will get really excited!

I already started packing up our apartment because we won't have much time to move into the house before my surgery date. So far I've already gotten quite a bit ready to go. Since we close on a Wednesday, the plan is to start moving anything that will fit in our cars in the evenings after work until the weekend, also trying to sort of organize and unpack each load as we go...then on Saturday night we will get a UHaul and enlist some help to move all the big stuff, and whatever small stuff is left. This will leave me 2 full days to get the house in livable condition...which would be hard, except my mom flies in from Houston on Saturday so she will be able to help!

In regards to the surgery, I have an appointment this coming Monday with my surgeon. They will take new molds and xrays and discuss all the instructions for the surgery and aftercare. I am super excited because I have a lot of questions! After this appointment, I don't think I'll see the surgeon again until the day of surgery!! I have to have blood work and a physical done before the surgery, but I think that is going to be done at the hospital, so I don't think he will be involved. Very exciting to think that I'll only see him once more before surgery! I only have one ortho appointment before the big day, and that is to get hooks on...which I will have throughout moving weekend...yay...

That's all the big news for now...Just excited that things are SOO close to happening now, the wedding will be here in just over a week (which I can barely comprehend) and I just think the time is going to fly by...If you are reading this Jae, congrats again to you and Aaron for your first home purchase as well! What are the odds we would be going through this at the exact same time!?