For Realz

I will be boarding a plane in one more week!  I am surprisingly not anxious about this.  But that may be because I have a week's worth of work at the front of my brain, distracting me from fretting about surgery.  Work comes in handy like that for me.  I am making decent progress on the work I committed to finishing before I leave on my hip adventure - and I am looking forward to leaving work and putting thoughts of it aside once this week is done.

It was the two-week-window that made this seem real.  I have a list of household things I'd like to finish as well before we go, since we'll have guests staying in our house the entire time we're gone - I don't think I have unrealistic expectations about how clean the house will be (read: not spotless) but I'd like them to feel welcome and comfortable while they're there.  So a bit of dusting, some thorough vacuuming, bathroom cleaning, and general putting-stuff-away.  I made small progress a little each day over the weekend.  And I've got a few tasks I'm delegating to Ted and the boys.

In a couple of days I am instructed to go off of NSAIDS (ibuprofen: advil, etc.) and aspirin, - anything that thins the blood.  I have started worrying about that!  I don't know when the last day was that I didn't take ibuprofen.  I can still take acetaminophen (Tylenol) which will help with the pain but not with inflammation. 

I emailed my work's short-term-disability leave form to my surgeon's office.  I hope they'll be willing and able to fill it out and email or fax it back sometime this week.  I would sure like to tie up that loose end ahead of time.

This week is just going to be slogging through the details.