Ok getting nervous now. Last visit to nut is tomorrow. Got a call from the dr. office he started submitting my paper work and now have a case manager assigned. Right now my surgery is scheduled for July 25. My nerves are already going crazy, thinking and reading about all the complications, I know everyone is different but tell that to my mind/head. But then I see all the amazing results and I want to be on the losers bench. What can I do to relax these next 2 weeks.

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10 hours ago, nibble said:

Geesh, that's crazy. Feelings are not right or wrong, they just ARE. They come and they go. Continue to have your feelings, Kasey. Life is chock full of them. I'm still on track for 7/17 surgery, and find this last ten days - and 10 day pre-op diet, to be zooming by. Cleaning, vacuuming, laundry, kitchen organizing, getting the meds and Vitamins ordered, creating place up off the floor for the cat dishes (I doubt I'll be able to lean over to the floor for a while) - leaving notes for my cat sitter friend - I'm busy busy. Also trying to hunt down my "Grab-it" tool. Without that, anything that might fall on the floor will have to stay there! I have one 22# kitty who insists on sleeping on my torso. After surgery that's not going to work! I'm making something lightweight like a bed tray to fit over me to protect the surgical area. He can lie on that and still be close. The things I do for these furballs! Does music help still your "what ifs" or reading? Hang in there, Kasey!

Basically working helps, I stay pretty busy at work. I read almost every night, have for years. I understand the pet thing, My little tubby Wyatt likes to sleep on me and shes 18 #. I am more nervous about my German Shepherd. First he has never been without me for a night and Second he has a terrible habit of jumping all over me when I walk through the door. We are all trying to break him of it, but it is slow going. Good luck with your surgery, 4 more days!

10 hours ago, nibble said:

Geesh, that's crazy. Feelings are not right or wrong, they just ARE. They come and they go. Continue to have your feelings, Kasey. Life is chock full of them. I'm still on track for 7/17 surgery, and find this last ten days - and 10 day pre-op diet, to be zooming by. Cleaning, vacuuming, laundry, kitchen organizing, getting the meds and Vitamins ordered, creating place up off the floor for the cat dishes (I doubt I'll be able to lean over to the floor for a while) - leaving notes for my cat sitter friend - I'm busy busy. Also trying to hunt down my "Grab-it" tool. Without that, anything that might fall on the floor will have to stay there! I have one 22# kitty who insists on sleeping on my torso. After surgery that's not going to work! I'm making something lightweight like a bed tray to fit over me to protect the surgical area. He can lie on that and still be close. The things I do for these furballs! Does music help still your "what ifs" or reading? Hang in there, Kasey!

Basically working helps, I stay pretty busy at work. I read almost every night, have for years. I understand the pet thing, My little tubby Wyatt likes to sleep on me and shes 18 #. I am more nervous about my German Shepherd. First he has never been without me for a night and Second he has a terrible habit of jumping all over me when I walk through the door. We are all trying to break him of it, but it is slow going. Good luck with your surgery, 4 more days!

I had a dog who got excited like that to see me. I had to learn to enter the house backwards after a hysterectomy to avoid getting injured in the abdominal area. That, or holding a pillow over my midsection to enter face forward! It was a process. But we managed and got through it, and fortunately I didn't have to leave and return often during recuperation. So will you have to rig up something to work around Wyatt, or does she avoid the critical area?

31 minutes ago, nibble said:

I had a dog who got excited like that to see me. I had to learn to enter the house backwards after a hysterectomy to avoid getting injured in the abdominal area. That, or holding a pillow over my midsection to enter face forward! It was a process. But we managed and got through I it, and fortunately I didn't have to leave and return often during recuperation. So will you have to rig up something to work around Wyatt, or does she avoid the critical area?

Well Wyatt is my very chubby cat, she just plops down whenever wherever she wants. Moxi is my German Shepherd and definitely entering backwards is a wonderful idea. Actually I am going to have the pillow in the car for when I come home too, double safety

Good plan! You caused me to recall that, when I could normally bend over with ease I would open the front door and put my hand inside near the floor, putting me more at her level, and that reduced her jumping up on me. Or, I'd put my hand in, let her lick it, then close the door and re-enter. Reduced jumping! This was many years ago and I'd forgotten a lot of her behaviors. I am mostly a cat person -- once had 5 at one time, not by design. Two is best for me -- Bonkers and Chancy.