For Jo - don't sweat the small stuff - it's all small stuff!

[Guest guest]

Hey there Jo. Are we having fun yet? As the time gets closer I

have become forgetful as well concentrating on my surgery and

forgetting all else. My wife started worrying about me.

Hey for me I am having upper and lower plus they are splitting my

palate. So not to worry. If they need to they will, if they don't

they won't. Either way the outcome will be good for you in the end!

I get all of my stuff next Thursday from X-Ray and Ortho. My

problem is that I have five days to misplace it all before I see my

OS. Hopefully I won't forget it. Also I see my OS for the one and

only time on the 9th. Before that I only met him when we started

the process 2 and half years ago. Never had a catheter before and

for that matter never been in the hospital for surgery before but

hey it's all good and the end justifies the means right?

Helen Reddy? Wow we really date ourselves don't we? ha ha. Take

care and hope you get good news today!

> hi y'all...

> well today is 10 days pre-op and I am spinning! SO much going on

for

> me with this being around the corner and my other vast and intense

> resp (if only the world would stop for a few days?! ha)

>

> but really I am truly buggin' sometimes-like this morning, I left

the

> house w/o my AP cepf xray that I HAVE to bring to the OS

> tonight...DUH it was sitting out-in all it's b&w glory staring at

me

> with my bag, and I had a note with my keys and still it sat there

and

> I left...unbelieveable.

> I never really forget anything...until lately

>

> I wouldn't be so spun if I just knew about mylower jaw...I pray to

> god that tonight they tell me for sure what our plans are. If they

> need to do my lower, 6 wks wired shut.

> If NOT, then no bands, no wires, just recovery.

> ...........can you imagine that?...........

> well I couldn't.

> I would read about everyone and how few people were wired that

long,

> most were banded and I would just think wow-imagine...and then

stop

> imaging bec that wasn't going to be me -NO WAY

> ...until last fri I learned that this was his (OS) last and

biggest

> question...I started thinking and now, crap to not be

> wired...wow!!!!!!!!!!!!

> ...but I so don't want to get stuck on that idea...there are so

many

> reasons why that would really help my world-i.e. I'm tiny, and

can't

> gain, and don't want to loose, and I talk for a living, really-I'm

a

> recruiter, and the reasons keep going. BUt #1 impt to me is doing

it

> right...and not rushing, so wired is ok if it is best...but

> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! I just was to know....

>

> and maybe worse of all, I have that damn song from WAY back in my

> head-and it's stinky to boot....ANTICIPAaaaation is making me

> wait......what is that helen redy or somthing?? I think I

officially

> lost it! jo

>

> TOMPOOL how are YOU doing? bugging like me or what?

[Guest guest]

Thanks Tom...

I'm leaving here in a few to get to my apt, hopefully I will remember

where to turn...earlier I forgot my office keys i the ladies room

(some stranger brought them bk-thank god) and then headed out to a

client and went 2 exits too far--just not with it at all. And usually

I can fake it when necessary, but NO WAY.

My fiance just saw me (to drop by my forgotten xray)and reminded me,

you may get a " well, I am planning on this, but when I go in, it may

be different " and remember to hope, but as I am more then familiar

with dealing with drs and hosps (for my grandmother lately), remember

that nothing is 100% until it's 100%...I think he just doesn't want

me super sad if they say no lower and I come out wired. and neither

do I.

the catheter is no biggie, just arkward...and the hosp, you may want

to ask your wife to stay over night one if you're not in ICU to just

be your mouth if you need and for comfort...(mind you she will prob

at best get a reclining chair-so comfort for you, not her---sorry).

and HAY! watch it with the age joke buddy...I'm only here and there

gray-just well rounded in music for my age (a sharp 32)! jk...it

was so cheesy I almost didn't write it, but it's SOOO true...damn

helen reddy song...wasn't it a catsup commercial too? ha.

ok, I'm going to log off and try to remember to 'put one foot in

front of the other'...(that is a lyric from some christmas special

too...see mucially savvy is all JO

(ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ok I'm good now)

> > hi y'all...

> > well today is 10 days pre-op and I am spinning! SO much going on

> for

> > me with this being around the corner and my other vast and

intense

> > resp (if only the world would stop for a few days?! ha)

> >

> > but really I am truly buggin' sometimes-like this morning, I left

> the

> > house w/o my AP cepf xray that I HAVE to bring to the OS

> > tonight...DUH it was sitting out-in all it's b&w glory staring at

> me

> > with my bag, and I had a note with my keys and still it sat there

> and

> > I left...unbelieveable.

> > I never really forget anything...until lately

> >

> > I wouldn't be so spun if I just knew about mylower jaw...I pray

to

> > god that tonight they tell me for sure what our plans are. If

they

> > need to do my lower, 6 wks wired shut.

> > If NOT, then no bands, no wires, just recovery.

> > ...........can you imagine that?...........

> > well I couldn't.

> > I would read about everyone and how few people were wired that

> long,

> > most were banded and I would just think wow-imagine...and then

> stop

> > imaging bec that wasn't going to be me -NO WAY

> > ...until last fri I learned that this was his (OS) last and

> biggest

> > question...I started thinking and now, crap to not be

> > wired...wow!!!!!!!!!!!!

> > ...but I so don't want to get stuck on that idea...there are so

> many

> > reasons why that would really help my world-i.e. I'm tiny, and

> can't

> > gain, and don't want to loose, and I talk for a living, really-

I'm

> a

> > recruiter, and the reasons keep going. BUt #1 impt to me is doing

> it

> > right...and not rushing, so wired is ok if it is best...but

> > aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! I just was to know....

> >

> > and maybe worse of all, I have that damn song from WAY back in my

> > head-and it's stinky to boot....ANTICIPAaaaation is making me

> > wait......what is that helen redy or somthing?? I think I

> officially

> > lost it! jo

> >

> > TOMPOOL how are YOU doing? bugging like me or what?