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An interesting thing happened this morning. We got up early and made our way to the surgery center. We finally found parking and walked two blocks east to the surgery center to check in.

We rode up the elevator to the second floor and upon stepping out of the elevator I pulled my ID out of my pocket to hand it  to the receptionist. I gave her my name and said that I was checking in for surgery.

She looked at her surgery list for the day and said, “Christina…. Your surgery was canceled because your doctor is ill. He called us last night around 10:40 and said that all of his patients had been called.”

I was shocked. I had geared myself up for this and spent two crazy weeks getting everything in place. Then nothing.

Even though it was very early we were hungry so we found a little restaurant. Afterward we fought our way through traffic to get home. That was a bit of an adventure.

When I got home I checked my answering machine and my doctor had called me at 8:59pm – but of course I was in San Francisco already when he called.

So I called my doctor’s office and his office assistant apologized several times. Well it was really no one’s fault that we didn’t get the message in time. My doctor couldn’t help it that he had the stomach flu and was in no position to do surgery.

I have been rescheduled for surgery on August 12th. So now I have two more weeks. :-)

I didn’t sleep very well last night. For one thing I drank a lot of water because I couldn’t have any after midnight and I wanted to be sure that I was as hydrated as possible. I have small veins and they have a really hard time finding them if I’m dehydrated.

After I took care of a couple of phone calls I took a nap. A really long nap. I just woke up about a half hour ago and wanted to post asap to let you know that I didn’t have the surgery today.

I have a funny story to share about something that happened in San Francisco, but I’ll have to post later – after I wake up or possibly after I get some more rest. ;-)