6 Days Left: A Busy Day

Today has been an extremely busy day! There has been lots of running around and talking to doctors to say the least.

First, I had an appointment at the hospital for pretesting. First, I had to fill out a bunch of health forms. Then a nurse practitioner talked to me about what to expect the day of surgery. I have to be in the hospital at 6:30 in the morning. I will have some blood drawn and then I can go into the pre-op area where I have to put on a hospital gown and get my IV started. I then have the chance to talk to my surgeon and the anesthesiologist before they start giving me drugs through my IV to relax me and calm me down. Once I'm in the operating room they'll put me to sleep and I'll wake up 4-6 hours later in the recovery room. After talking with the nurse practitioner I had some blood drawn. Thank God I had an expert who was able to find my tiny vein on the first poke! After that, I was all set, and headed off for a quick lunch before I was off to the orthodontist.

My appointment at the orthodontist was relatively painless and short. All they had to do was attach some extra hooks for rubber bands after surgery and retie my wire in a few places. I kind of felt like it was a send off for me. Everyone wished me luck and said they can't wait to see how I look after surgery.

The last item on the agenda was stopping by the oral surgeon's office to pick up the consent forms I have to sign. All I can say was it was interesting and somewhat scary reading through all of things that could possibly go wrong. My oral surgeon has told me about pretty much all of the possible problems, but they tend to be a lot more direct and scary on paper. Also, for anyone who wants to know the proper medical terms for the procedures I'm having, they are: lefort I osteotomy, mandibular bilateral saggital split, genioplasty, and nasal septoplasty.

As a side note, by popular deman, now anyone should be able to comment on my posts.

That's all for today!