surgery sooner than expected

The last two weeks have been pretty busy... Kimber had an appointment in Greenville with the pediatric dentist. She has had some work that we knew needed to be done, but have put it off until my health issues were more stable. The dentist felt that even though she is a great patient, with what we needed to do that it would be best to have her work done at the surgicenter and have her put to sleep. If you have followed my blog all along you know that even after all I have been through that being put to sleep is still the one thing that I fear. Of course, I fear it when it is me going under, but I REALLY didn't care for the idea of my daughter being put under. However, I decided that it would be best for her and we scheduled her surgery for this past Wednesday. Normally it would take weeks for an opening in the surgery schedule but the day we were there for her appointment they had a cancellation that allowed us to get in the next week. Thinking at the time that my next surgery would be March 13, it seemed this was all working out great to be done before I would be out of commission again. Her surgery went well and she was able to head home the same afternoon.

While in the waiting room, stressing over my daughter being put to sleep and having surgery... I get a phone call from Dr. CP's office (my ob/gyn oncology doctor), the doctor who will be doing the surgery to remove my ovaries. They have rescheduled my surgery for March 5. WHAT?!?! Guess it really was a good thing they were able to get Kimber in as quickly as they did, because with that one phone call my surgery has been moved up eight whole days. Ultimately it doesn't really make a difference. The only reason we waited until March was for insurance purposes so as long as the date stays in March, I guess the sooner I get it over with the better. This will allow me to have a little more recuperating time between this surgery and the one that will follow this one at the end of May. The surgery itself doesn't really seem to much of a concern for me but how things will be after this surgery concerns me a lot. The fact that this surgery will cause menopause and because of my history I am unable to take hormones to help with the symptoms of menopause I'm a little worried about how this is all going to go. I guess we will see! This surgery should be outpatient. So I am hoping to be home that evening. There is always a chance that they may end up having to do more than they originally thought which could change the type of surgery and the amount of time I have to stay in the hospital, but we are going to think positive. I'm not looking forward to being out of work AGAIN! I will be so glad when life is completely back to normal!! Unless there are any changes I will probably not post until surgery is over. Please continue to keep me in your prayers! Hopefully will be posting all positive things next week when I am back home!