November 29th, 2008

Met with my BF for coffee and a bagel this morning--as we have done for more than a decade. Decided to tell her that I was going forward with the surgery. I have insurance approvals for everything but the surgery so far: group health education, psych eval, dietician consult, surgeon's consult. Blood work is done, and the EKG will take place on the 11th. She was pleased. I was surprized. She said she wished she had the courage to do it too. She also said that my mother had said she hoped I would "do something" afetr I casually mentioned it a couple of months ago. Good to know I will have mum's support too. I've not told her because I thought she'd be against it too. I'm kinda of wondering though: my approvals mentioned above, give me until about mid-January to get done. If I jump all these hoops with flying colors, then presumably I'll be eligible for surgery by the end of January. I thought the process would take longer and was planning to get the surgery during summer vacation. If I could get it sooner, then WOW!:thumbup: