Under 24 hours

Tomorrow is the day and my nerves are frayed beyond belief. I didn't hear from the surgeons office so I'm assuming that my surgery has not been cancelled. My surgery is at 8 am and the paperwork tells me to be there at least 2 hours early which puts me at the Hamilton General at 6 am. I'm trying to convince Christie that we need to be up at 4 am and on the road by 5 at the latest. By this time tomorrow I should be well into the procedure. I'm not sure when updates will come but I will update whenever I can...

Almost there...

The clock is ticking and surgery is fast approaching. Yesterday was my last day of work, today I spend at the Hamilton Generals Thrombosis clinic and with my sleep apnea technician. Tomorrow and Friday is taking care of all the paperwork end of things such as EI and short term disability benefits as well as a temporary handicap parking permit. On top of that I have to make my way to my daughters new high school to see the guidance Councillor to make sure Abby is taking advantage of all of her potential. Then I will have what I am sure will be way too short of a weekend with the kids and then I will go under the knife on Monday morning at 8 am. My intention is to keep this blog updated as I recover but I am not too sure how it will go right after surgery, it may take a few days before I am updating. From what I read and the videos I see I expect to be in some pretty crazy amounts of pain. I will do what I can but make no promises.

Two weeks 'till preparations

Two weeks from now I will be getting my things ready to head to the hospital on the morning of Sept. 19th. Well, at least I hope I am. My INR levels for my blood seem to be spiking a little bit, they are at 3.5 as of last Monday. My Coumadin dose has been decreased by 1mg per day to try and bring my INR down to the range we are looking for ( 2-3 ). No one has told me definitively but if my levels go up too much and we can't get it to stabilize I would imagine that it could hinder my surgery. I'm hoping that it won't but nothing has really gone quite right yet. I have my appointment for the thrombosis clinic at The Hamilton General Hospital five days before surgery. Unfortunately my surgeon wants me off of the Coumadin 7 days prior to surgery and my appointment 5 days before with thrombo does not allow for this. We are desperately trying to get this sorted out as this too could affect my chances of getting this done on the 19th. Sometimes it just seems like everything is against me with this surgery. Either way we will push on and hopefully get this all done and over with.