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All is well.   I felt great in the hospital but I've digressed to feeling pretty good now that I'm home.  I guess that's what happens when you lose the morphine drip. All in all though, I cannot complain. 

Well, the hematologist has cleared me for surgery, so I've been rescheduled for surgery for August 6, 2008. Since it's been more than 30 days, I'll have to do pre admission testing again.  That is next Tuesday, July 15.  I'm so nervous...again!!!

I need to vent.  I don't want to sound like I'm ungrateful to God because I am.  Grateful that this potential problem was caught. Grateful that the door hasn't been shut for me to have surgery.  I've only having a little detour on the road to my surgery. I know that all things work in God's time, not mine.  Knowing all this, I still get so sad.  I'm never one to count my chickens before they hatch but I did. I allowed myself to imagine the new me.  For once in my life, I believed something would happen before it actually happened. I'm so frustrated.  I should be coming home from surgery today and blogging about my experience. Not moping around because it didn't happen.  Oh well...better luck next time, I guess.

I'm not having surgery on June 4th as planned.  I learned on Friday that my surgery has been postponed until I can see and get clearance from a hematologist.   The blood test done at my pre admission testing revealed a high PTT. Meaning there is a likelihood that my blood will not clot during surgery.  I was so disappointed but I'm okay with it now.  I can't enjoy the journey if I'm not around to live it if I bleed to death during surgery, now can I?  I just thank God that this potential problem was discovered before surgery.  I've made an appointment with a hemotologist on July 1st.  So just waiting to see what happens...

Had my pre-op testing done today...everything is a go so my date is definitely set for June 4!! But this Pre-op diet is very very hard to stick to.  Pray that the Lord grants me strength and control!

Now that I have THE highly anticipated date, I am freaking out a little.  I want the surgery really badly but I'm a worry wart by nature and a million thoughts are going through my head.  My husband's surgery is next week.  This is all now a reality.  My pre admission testing is scheduled for May 21st. I can't believe this is actually about to happen!

I got a date...My big day is June 4, 2008!!! I can not believe this is finally going to happen.

My hubby received his date...May 6th.  The surgeon's office calls me every day to see where I am in fulfulling the requirements for surgery clearance.  At this point I've done all that I have to do...just waiting on my PCP to send in everything to the surgeon. I also have the final appt with the sleep doctor on Wednesday so they can fax the info to the surgeon.  So hopefully, I can be scheduled soon. 

It's been a couple of weeks since I've blogged cause I just didn't have anything new. But since then, I've completed the sleep study. Nobody told me the darn thing would be for 2 nights and then a result visit. Just waiting on my finally appt with the doctor to get my CPAP machine. The good news is that my hubby has been cleared by the surgeon and his paperwork is in "scheduling". So I guess he'll be getting a date soon. And since we requested to be 2 weeks apart, I guess that doesn't mean I have too long until I'll be "in scheduling" also.

Ok, so I never heard from the PCP about scheduling the sleep study. So I called UHC and asked if it was ok for me to schedule my own sleep study, they said it was. I didn't need a referral so that is exactly what I did. So my initial consultation is Wednesday at 1pm. Hopefully, they'll get me scheduled for the actual sleep study relatively soon. And then one more appointment with my PCP and then everything can be submitted to my surgeon.