in the home stretch....

I'm in the home stretch for my surgery. Only 8 days and counting down.... yesterday I went for my final pre-op appointment with the surgeon. He took lots of measurements and a couple of molds of my mouth... plus took a ton of pictures from every angle of my face. I had a list of questions to ask him and I got most of them answered. I found out no using straws after my surgery for 2 weeks and no blowing my nose.... which I think will be hard, but I guess we will see. Also I will be limited to a totally liquid diet for 2 weeks at least, not only is it limited to liquid it will be limited to 3 slim fasts a day ( so I get all the vitamins and protein for the day) and then all the water and juice I can drink. They want me to drink enough so I'm going to the bathroom about once an hour. Which would be easy if I wasn't going to have my mouth banded shut.... have you ever tried to drink something with your teeth totally closed??? It's not so easy. But I will get through this.... I'm looking at it as a great jump start to my diet for when I get married. I should lose the weight in no time..... it will just be keeping it off then. The biggest question is still up in the air... the time of the surgery.... I guess the hospital calls me the day before and tells me what time to be there.....which is kind of nerve racking,since I want to have everything planned out.. .I guess I will just have to roll with the punches for now. We are pretty much prepared for whenever the surgery is on Wednesday, Skinny has planned to leave the fort at 5;45 am, so he will be down town and ready to go by 6;30 am, then Howie is going to take me to the hospital.... and hopefully will hang out till Skinny gets there, just so he knows what is going on. Now that is only if I have to be at the hospital at 5:30 in the morning. Otherwise Howie will just need to drop me off and I can handle it from there. The mother made a big fuss about having someone hang out at the hospital,she thinks I will be fine alone. Thing is Howie spent the whole morning today... hanging out at her surgery and it is out patient. I want to make sure nothing goes wrong... so if I have someone there.... they can find out what is up and tell everyone else. At least the next week should go by fast, I still have my pre-op physical with my normal doctor tomorrow and then we have a busy weekend of getting stuff ready....... next Wednesday will be here before we know it.
On other fronts...... the Mother had her foot surgery today and is doing well..... by the time I get off work she should be home... It will be interesting to see how her foot looks now, since they were so bad before.....at least now she will know what she has in store for when she has the other one done in Dec.