Surgery Date Scheduled: February 20, 2013 and Organizing Home

When I got the call back from the coordinator for both cancer surgeon and reconstruction surgeon and hospital for space and time, my heart raced. I had down time this past week which felt amazing, and now it's real again. Not sad, not relieved, not anxious -- I think. I don't know. But I felt it in my stomach , like nerves acting in on this. I don't know if I've ever had this same physical feeling before.

So it's a two week count down and I now need to get my house ready so that it's easier to recover, and so that both my husband and son can navigate better without me while I'm in the hospital.

I think I'll also make some videos of 'how to' types of things. Here's one I've started with regarding my juicing routine. It was done quickly just to give my husband, son, family, and friends an idea how to use the juicer and what I put in it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF09aoDXQHw


Yesterday, a friend came over and helped me put books in an additional IKEA Expedit 8-cubby hole storage bookcase. Today, I think I'll label these since it's my son's homeschool library. The good news is that he's ahead on many things on our schedule; other things we can postpone until summer since we are year-round. I think my mom will get a kick out of reading with him -- he's such a great reader. The last time she was here was for a hospitalization I had 3 years ago and a lot happens in a little boy's development from age 4 to age 7.


Next will be our office area so that I can continue studying for comps. All comps items are in the office has which has become a storage room over the past 3 years in which I had a hospitalization and a surgery. And although now I can find things in there and lift heavy binders and study, I have a feeling I won't be able to comfortably do that after surgery. If I can have it ready in order of what left I need to study without having to pull off from high shelves then this will be great.

The good news is that if I keep myself busy, yet rested, with homeschooling and studying and other routines that I'm used to and enjoy, then this will keep me from hyper-focussing on upcoming surgery.