Re: darn doctors - Borislittlesal

June 15, 2005

Dear B,

Thank you for commiserating with me about my wretched OD experience

yesterday. It really is comforting to know that there are other

people who know how you feel. It wasn't so much the having to wear

braces longer part that got to me but how my ortho handled the whole

thing and how he was bitching about my surgeon. I told my step-father

about it and he is a doctor himself and he said that that was very

unprofessional of my ortho. So now I'm feeling a little insecure

about having him complete my treatment. Lol, the indecision and

insecurity never stops during this process!

I can only imagine how frustrated you must be about planning your big

day with braces on. Poor B. My heart goes out to you but look at it

this way. It could be worse. You could have already done surgery and

have a big fat splint and elastic bands in on the day which would

cause you to say " I chu " instead of " I do " . My own wedding has been

postponed for the 3rd time to the summer of 2007. My fiancee and I

figured it was best this way because I still need to figure out my

own life i.e. find me a job to pay back all my loans from grad

school, not to mention this surgery. What is most frustrating about

this whole recovery phase is not being able to get on a plane to

Italy so that I can start job hunting there. I've decided to tell my

doctors to stuff themselves - they requested originally that I stick

around until Xmas in NYC but I really can't afford that moneywise so

I'll have to figure out something I suppose. At the moment I know

already that I have a good surgeon that was trained in the US who

also happens to be a good friend of the family and he is happy to

liaise with my current surgeon for all my follow up visits from

August onwards. We shall see about the ortho.

I can't imagine having to plan a wedding and manage all the emotions

that come with waiting for surgery. You're a true trooper B. I hope

that the pending surgery doesn't take away from any of the excitement

and happiness that comes with getting married. You deserve to enjoy

it as much as possible, as well as have a blast on your hen night. I

organized my best friend's hen night just last year in London and it

was such fun being back there, even if just for two days.

Sara xx

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