Evidence that worrying TOTALLY WORKS

I saw a quote recently on my friend Sally's Facebook status: "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength." In my experience, this holds true.

Yet I can't completely rid my brain of that little superstitious thought that if I worry about the worst possible thing, I will magically prevent it from coming to be.

We sent our Indian visa applications to the India consulate in San Francisco last week. The website says that the application typically takes 7 to 9 business days to process. So when I received an email yesterday that said that the applications had been "processed correctly" and were being FedEx-ed back to us I was fairly certain that "processed correctly" didn't mean "approved" but rather meant "you screwed up so we denied your visas" or even "we're not approving visas right now due to some security concern or other" - I mean "processed correctly" doesn't really SAY anything.

So I worked that thought over in my head for the last 24 hours.

Thank goodness for FedEx - I only had to ward off bad news with my magical worrying powers for one day. Everything has arrived and our visas are approved and paperwork is in order!

"I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened" - Mark Twain

... It's because of my magical brain!

More information about resurfacing

The Hip Resurfacing Yahoo Group has been invaluable to me - and many others - in learning about the availability of this procedure. Plenty of people are NEVER informed that this is even an option, even though it's been approved by the FDA for 5 years, and this particular device has been used in Europe for 15 years.

This is a more challenging surgery than a total hip replacement procedure, and many surgeons aren't trained to do it, so why bring it up, I guess?

One of the people in the Yahoo group posted a link to a Minnesota anchorman's hip resurfacing story. Don't worry, his name isn't Ron Burgundy. This is great overview of hip resurfacing.

It's about 5 minutes long. If you are at all squeamish (Rachel), just skip minutes 2-3. It's operating room footage. Probably not more than you'd see on your favorite medical drama, but still.

There's post-op stuff too which I was really interested in seeing - he's up and walking (slowly) Day One with a walker.

Anyway, hope you find this interesting. If you have troubles with the video, try copying and pasting the address into your browser. They can be finicky.

India - it's Official!

Sheeze, I can't believe it's been so long since I updated this, but I wanted to wait until things were really and truly official, and then I wanted to make sure I'd told my family and such before they learned about my plans from a blog.

But I am really going to Chennai, India to get my hip fixed.

Ted is going with me - in July - and we have family and friends who are willing to help with kid and home care. So I've gotten to practice asking for help - really, who is good at that? Not me. But I'm doing it. There is a lot of logistics stuff at the beginning of this process - scheduling, flights, hotels, visa applications - but we're almost through that.

I can't wait to have a hip that works.