Grace, I just wanted to take a moment to welcome you to OH.com. I found this to be a wonderful place not only to have support and questions answered, but to learn all sorts of things related to our surgery. I too had Dr. Read as my surgeon and can't say enough about him and his staff. You are now almost 5 months out so you must feel like this is old hat, but sometimes even how something will come up that I need to post on the message board. Everyone on this site is very helpful.