The clock is ticking and we have much to do before my surgery, we were up early today, beautiful scrambled eggs for breakfast and on our way with a long list of jobs for this morning, the last of which was meeting the surgeon for the first time in person as we have only spoken via Skype. I have psyched myself up for this as part of the meeting I’m sure will be an examination but I need it to happen, I have lots of questions and really need to get a feel for how I will be afterwards. The jobs went well, parking permit, chemist, coffee! And that’s when it all went wrong, I received an email from one of the lovely girls that work for Kathy regarding the payment for the hospital which had been a problem yesterday, now we have this sorted but just haven’t heard back from them telling me that it’s all goood but the disappointing part of the email was that Kathy is not going to be at work today and won’t see me until I am at the hospital on Tuesday, to say I was gutted was an understatement, I so want to talk to her before, she has never seen “what she has to work with here!” What if there is a problem? I will be all prepared for surgery and it will be cancelled! We decided to go to the clinic, I would have been happy for Heather to make sure all was ok but she was busy, Kami and Dawn to the rescue, both were so lovely, Kami phoned Kathy and said Kathy would call me to make sure I was ok with everything, Dawn had explained that she regularly operates on people she has not examined and it not like I have anything radically different or anything but I would just be much more comfortable if she had examined me first. We left a little happier but I my mind I didn’t expect to hear from Kathy and was considering what to do about it. We went to a small supermarket to get a few things then headed home for a late lunch, just as we had finished preparing my phone rang and it was Kathy, very apologetic, assured me all would be good and she was happy to see me on Monday (a public holiday) when we get to the clinic, it was like a weight had been lifted off me, so happy! I have been so impressed by the way I have been looked after, while it is costing a lot of dollars the peace of mind is so important and the lengths we and they are going to to get the best possible outcome from the surgery is incredible and I just know I will be so happy with the end result, one happy Stephanie!