Almost There!

Six days until surgery! and only 148 hours until I leave for the hospital; 152 until the surgery itself! Hurray! O.k. I know this is overdoing it, but I have been waiting for this for nine month now, and as afraid as I am of surgery and its risks, and the dreaded PICC line, I am also ready to get this over with.

I have one big concern which I do not know if my doctors have been completely truthful about. I have been on 4000mg of antibiotics every day for the last nine month, and am about to start IV antibiotics, most likely combined with, and then followed by more oral antibiotics. The doctors have said that this will not effect my immune system. However, I have had a cold for several months, one that just won't go away (alas, it was not allergies to the hay I feed my guinea pigs, although that does seem to have contributed to the severity of things). I think it is finally going away, which would be great just before surgery! How can they tell me that, what is likely to be at least a whole year of antibiotics, won't effect my immune system? Perhaps I will press them a bit harder when I have surgery.

On a lighter note (cause the last few posts have had heavier content), my mom and I were joking today about me finding a boyfriend. I told her that I should just ask my Infectious Disease specialist if she is working with any hot, 20-some-odd year guy who has a bone infection. That way we could at least have adjoining hospital rooms, if not beds! Hell, we would have enough in common as my wonderful friend Beth said when I told her. She said we (this hypothetical man and I) would have more understanding for one another than anyone else!

When (I refuse to use the word if at the moment) I am better I should write a post about all the best and funniest experiences I had through this ordeal.  For now, I am almost there, just a little bit more waiting.

I should note that this was posted on Thursday just after 1:00am, but blogger is making it seem like I posted this late Wednesday night. That is why I am saying six days (especially since I will probably sleep until 3:00pm) and note seven.