Chaos, elation, confusion, etc...

This is how this morning's phone conversation with my doctor went:

"If you were my sister I would tell you to cancel your surgery for Monday and go see Dr. Azodi to see if he can do your surgery laproscopically...which he told me he was confident that he could."

When your surgeon calls you and says this to you, what do you do!?

So..........I cancelled the surgery for Monday and have been on the phone all morning trying to get in to see this other doctor in New Haven.

Final result? I am not having my abdominal surgery on Monday!

Instead, on Thursday, July 16th, I am going to meet with this other doc who is going to examine me and tell me if he thinks he can do it laproscopically.

If yes- then the surgery will be in August. If no, then I will be re-scheduling my abdominal for July 27th.

Here are the advantages to laproscopic as opposed to an abdominal surgery:
*much faster healing time...two weeks as opposed to two months +
*less bleeding
*less pain and therefore less pain killers
*less time in the hospital! one day as opposed to three!
*my organs won't have to be taken out of my body (bladder and intestines you get to stay cozy!!)
*my abdomen won't have to be cut into
*fewer complications, less chance of infection

This is really an incredible turn of events and I am blown away by the timing of this whole thing. While I am not a religious person by any stretch, I am spiritual and I do have my own wacked out version of how I think this universe works.

That said, I can't help but be humbled by this turn of events and I can't help but feel that this is happening because somehow I was heard.

While I do see this as somewhat of a miraculous turn of events, I have to say that it's also a testimony to advocating for myself and finding a great doctor who listened to me...and knew how important a laproscopic surgery was to me. Having a great doctor is huge because she wasn't out to make a quick buck at my expense, and her ego didn't get in the way of her decision to call me and recommend another doc.....

UGH! This is fantastic. I am not getting my hopes up too high...yet....but I will certainly keep posting with the latest info.

Thanks to all of you for your support -Rob, Ange&D, Paul, Mom, Ant, Suz, Steven, Em&George, Edie&Rick, Sue&Craig, Keiko&Obi, Patti, CGK, JoAnn, Robin....all my co-workers and Dad....[I know he's not physically here, but I know he had a LOT to do with this ;-)]

I really do feel that all of your thoughts and good wished helped this happen. It's powerful when people all send positive vibes. So thank you to all of you. Never under-estimate the power of thinking good things and sending good vibes for eachother.

Stay tuned cuz this ain't ova yet! ;-)